Housing Administrative Assistant

The Tla’amin Nation is a modern, forward-thinking, self-governing nation located on the beautiful upper Sunshine Coast (qathet Region).

Job Type: Full-time, permanent

Hours of Work: 8:30am – 4:30pm, Monday to Friday

Reports to:

Director of Housing

Department:
Housing

The Housing Administrative Assistant provides administrative and coordination support to the Director of Housing and contributes to the effective day-to-day administration of the Housing Department. The Housing Administrative Assistant assists with coordinating departmental priorities, correspondence, meetings, records, financial administration, project and action tracking, document preparation, and communication with internal departments and external partners.

The Housing Administrative Assistant works closely with the Director of Housing and the Housing team to ensure information, decisions, commitments, deadlines, and follow-up actions are organized, documented, and communicated as needed. The role requires strong organizational skills, sound judgment, attention to detail, discretion, initiative, and the ability to manage multiple priorities while handling sensitive information appropriately.

Performs all duties and responsibilities in accordance with Tla’amin Nation policies, standards, practices, and procedures as directed by the Director of Housing. Maintains confidentiality as required pertaining to members, citizens, clients, employees, and general matters of the Nation.

• Provides day-to-day administrative support to the Director, including scheduling, correspondence, document preparation, meeting coordination, and follow-up.
• Supports the Director in organizing and managing departmental priorities, commitments and deadlines, including tracking outstanding actions and coordinating required follow-up.
• Attends meetings with or on behalf of the Director, as required, and records notes or minutes, decisions, commitments and action items.
• Coordinates meetings and prepares agendas, briefing materials, background information, and other supporting documentation.
• Coordinates travel, accommodation, registrations and other administrative and departmental logistics.
• Provides general administrative support to the Housing department and team in accordance with priorities established by the Director.

• Provides administrative support for projects, programs, strategic initiatives and priority tasks led or overseen by the Director.
• Maintains project and task trackers, including timelines, milestones, deliverables, decisions, approvals, action items and outstanding information.
• Monitors timelines and follow-up requirements, coordinates information and deliverables, and supports the Director in keeping projects and tasks progressing.
• Maintains organized project files, documentation, records and related correspondence.
• Supports the preparation and coordination of materials for Executive Council, senior leadership, committees, funders and community engagement.
• Provides administrative support for contracts, agreements, proposals, funding applications and consultant engagement.

• Monitors assigned Housing correspondence and administrative channels, routes requests appropriately and tracks matters requiring follow-up.
• Drafts, formats, and coordinates correspondence, reports, presentations, briefing materials, and other departmental documents.
• Maintains organized departmental records, including policies, procedures, agreements, reports, correspondence and decision records.
• Maintains departmental databases, trackers, and administrative records, and assists with compiling information and data for reporting and decision-making.
• Handles confidential and sensitive information with discretion and ensures information and records are managed in accordance with applicable confidentiality, privacy and record-management requirements.

• Processes and tracks purchase orders, invoices, expense reimbursements, mileage, credit-card reconciliations and other departmental financial documentation.
• Coordinates with Finance regarding departmental expenditures, invoices, contractors, coding and purchasing.
• Maintains supporting financial and procurement records.
• Coordinates office supplies, onboarding logistics and other departmental administrative requirements.
• Supports with the organization and coordination of community…