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Resume

Personal Details
Name Erika Todd
Address 6 Goldingham St, Taperoo SA 5017
Mobile0402 006 631
Email erika_i_todd@yahoo.com.au
Residency: Australian Citizen
Date of Birth: 9 August 1955

Employment History
17th September 2009 to 23rd November 2009 (Contract Assignment)
Chief Executive’s Office
Department of Health

Role: Administration Assistant

Duties include:
• E-courier on Objective (data base)
• Opening and distribution of mail
• Corrections typing of letters for signature
• Filling
• Answering incoming calls in a timely manner
• Any other duties as required

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30th June 2008 to 13th March 2009 (temp assignment)

Births, Deaths & Marriages

Role: Personal Assistant

Duties included:
• Diary Management for Registrar
• Maintaining staff records on Promadis (BDM software) and reconciling
records with records from HR and Timekeeping/Flexi.
• Processing of Accounts in a timely manner. Entering Accounts in the
Commitment Register in Excel. End of month reconciliation of accounts.
Querying accounts with finance and reconciling.
• Diary Management using Promadis for agencies to access BDM records
• Maintaining stationary supplies and specialty supplies including Australia
Post needed for BDM.
• Travel Arrangements.
• Help where and when it is needed in the Department.
• Handling telephone enquiries.
• Researching the Internet and Government Intranet for requested
information.
• Recfind (Records Management) of Ministerial correspondence and
Agency files.
• Updating the PA Manual
• Typing
• Distributing Mail
• Maintaining stock control of Birth Registration Forms
• Filing of monthly Statistic Reports
• Use of Statistic reports for payment of commissions (sales of Birth
Certificates)

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5th June to 18th June 2008 (temp assignment)

Department of Environment and Heritage
Conservation Policy and Programs

Role: Executive Assistant

Duties included:
• Providing comprehensive secretarial assistance to two Directors.
• Travel arrangements
• Diary management
• Correspondence
• Recfind (Records Management)
• Accounts
• Screening telephone calls

September 2003 to June 2008

During this time I relocated to SA, took over custody of my grandchild (now aged
5½) and nursed my husband through cancer treatment.

June 2003 to September 2003 (Temp pending redeployment)

NSW Fisheries

Role: Administration and Secretarial Assistance

Duties included:
• Secretarial assistance to two Officers
• Answering phones
• Archiving
• Petty Cash management and distribution

April 2003 – June 2003 (Temp pending redeployment)

The Office of the Hon Ian Macdonald
Minister for Agriculture
Minister for Fisheries

Role: Records Management Officer

Duties included:

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• Tracking of Ministerial Correspondence and distribution of
mail from the Department to Ministerial Advisors
• Relief Reception

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May 1995 to March 2003

The Office of the Hon Kim Yeadon MP
Minister for Information Technology
Minister for Energy
Minister for Forestry
Minister for Western Sydney

Assistant to Chief of Staff

Duties included:
• Co-ordinate Chief of Staff’s diary, and general assistance to Chief of Staff
• Relieve on Reception when required in GMT office, and other duties
including the distribution of incoming mail.
• Parliament House reception and switch. Other duties include secretarial
duties when required by Chief of Staff and Policy Advisers.
• Assisting the Parliamentary Liaison Officer while Parliament is sitting re
Question Time folder and researching Hansard.
• Distribution of files to policy advisers from State Mail Bag.
• Co-ordination of Outstanding Correspondence reports for all portfolios,
including liaison with electorate offices and departments.
• Co-ordination of payment vouchers for all incoming accounts.
• Co-ordination of Cabcharge vouchers and mobile phone accounts.
• Co-ordination of petty cash.
• First point of contact with IT Helpdesk and Building Maintenance.
• Co-ordination of Security passes for parliament and GMT for Ministerial
Personnel.
• Data entry of some portfolios on an ongoing basis, in addition to extra
when short staffed and ongoing records management.
• Co-ordination of staff lists, and phone lists.
• Organising the removal of confidential documentation.
• Events co-ordinator for the office.
• Secretarial assistance to Media Advisers as required.
• Management of media fax list.
• Organising travel and staff time sheets when Minister’s secretary on leave

Education and Training Courses

2009 Excel (WorkSkills Training)

2008 Certificate 3 in Call Centre / Customer Service (Careerlink)

2002 Dealing with Difficult Customers

1995 Government Office Protocol

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Referees

Helen Paues (previous line manager)

Assistant Registrar
Births, Deaths and Marriages (SA)
Work No: 08 82049600

Jill Bateman (previous line manager)

Private Secretary, the Office of the Hon David Campbell MP
Work No: 02 9228 3781

David Halliday
Policy Advisor, the Office of the Hon Phillip Costa MP
Work No: 02 9228 5055

Maria Vnuk
Senior Research Officer, Department of Families, Housing, Community Services
and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA)
Mobile No: 0431933591

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