Canva

Admin Business Partner

To empower everyone in the world to design anything and publish anywhere

  • Administration

  • Full-time

  • Office | Sydney, NSW, Australia

  • Visa sponsorship · No

  • Senior · A role for someone with advanced knowledge and skills. May involve mentoring, leading others or specialisation. Typically at least 5 years of experience.

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Why Canva

Launched in 2013, Canva is an online design and visual communication platform with a mission to empower everyone in the world to design anything and publish anywhere.

About the role

About the Role This role will work directly with our Content & Discovery Supergroup Lead, and report to the supergroup’s Leadership Operations, as well as partnering with the broader operations team to ensure there is effective and impactful support. We are looking for someone super-efficient, who loves nothing more than to anticipate needs, get stuff done, and is able to suggest resolutions when identifying issues. This role requires someone who can operate with pace, high degrees of confidentiality and someone who can truly make the complex simple, by knowing who and when to engage with at any one time.

What you’ll do

  • Time management: You'll ensure the Lead’s time is used efficiently through coordinating meetings and tracking action items and follow ups. 
  • Meeting preparation: You'll prepare for meetings by coordinating and assisting in building any materials and note taking. 
  • Prioritisation and workload management: You'll work closely with the Supergroup Lead to prioritise tasks and projects, ensuring that high-impact initiatives receive prompt attention and support.
  • Travel planning: You'll plan for travel by managing both logistical travel arrangements as well as trip itineraries. 
  • **General administration: ** You'll help out with a wide range of business and tasks as they come up including celebration expenses, documentation and any other ad hoc requests.
  • Team activities: You'll support the supergroup operations team on the organisation of season openers, celebrations, gifts and off-sites, ensuring everyone is empowered to do the best work of their life and having the best time doing it.
  • Be a Real People Person: You’ll build strong relationships with key stakeholders within the company, this will be critical to ensuring that there is the right two-way visibility between the team and the business. 
  • Own the day to day: You'll be making sure that the Supergroup Lead is set up to run smoothly.

What we're looking for

  • **Proven Executive Assistance Support: **Experience empowering leaders through effective administrative support.
  • Team Collaboration: A team player with excellent communication skills and high emotional intelligence who thrives on building and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders across the business.
  • Adaptability: A quick learner who excels in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment, always seeking new ways to improve efficiency and solve problems in scalable ways.
  • Attention to Detail: Exceptional attention to detail and strong organisational skills, with the ability to create a variety of communications—from written documents to Canva presentations.
  • Presentation & Design: Solid presentation and design skills 
  • Bias for Action: A proactive individual who consistently strives to get things done and drive progress.
  • Trusted Partnership: Experience working with a Leadership team, comfortable handling sensitive and confidential information.
  • Hands-On Attitude: A willingness to roll up your sleeves and tackle any task that contributes to the bigger picture, knowing that no task is too small if it enhances team effectiveness.

What you'll be responsible for

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    Office and Team Coordination

    Coordinate the smooth and effective day-to-day administrative operations of an office or team

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    Organisation and Administration

    Manage the smooth operation of projects and cases including filing documents, scheduling appointments, and organizing files and documents

Skills you'll need

  • Prioritization

    Compares and ranks the relative importance &/or urgency of different tasks to identify the best order of actions

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    Attention to detail

    Accurately identifies and rectifies discrepancies or errors that exists in information and deliverables

Meet the team

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