Careers

Our mission

“Turn hiring, job hunting into a quick, easy, painless, and fun experience.”

We ourselves are employers and job seekers. We have gone through the same frustration that you have when you need to hire new employees, or when you need to go job hunting.

Spare Staff is built around the idea that hiring, job hunting should be quick, easy just like your online shopping experience, and it should be “fun” and exciting ?

Our core values

We believe hard work, dedication, and determination is the key to our success. Talent will take you far. Hard work will take you all the way to the end – success.

Healthy, balanced work and life

Your life exists in and outside your work. We want everyone to be healthy ?, live a balanced life, get time to give back, and have the support from our team when they need.

Small team, global mission

As a new start-up and growing company, our team is constantly expanding with a number of opportunities.

Joining us means you will wear many hats at any time, contributing to our growing team.

Be part of our team, be part of something extraordinary.

How to apply

On Spare Staff, we recruit differently. As an employment marketplace platform ourselves, we recruit talents using our own platform and, at the same time, help you find jobs by promoting your profile listings to other employers.

We also partner with other businesses who are recruiting and connect you with them.

Join our team today by adding your listing on our website and send us a message to careers @ sparestaff.com.au

Make sure to specify your availability, residency status. Include as much details as possible to make your listing stand out.

Want to learn more about the benefits of joining Spare Staff? Visit How it works and Why get hired on Spare Staff pages.

Open positions at Spare Staff

Marketing assistant, data entry, content acquisition (Part-time)

We are looking for a digital marketing assistant to help our team with digital marketing strategies, effective marketing campaigns.

The role

  • Work together with our team to build brand awareness, engagement, building audience, initial traction, using digital communication strategy.
  • Content creation, engagement with users on social media, drive traffic to website.
  • Data entry: collecting and entering user details into our platform.
  • Create listings for users to attract initial users.
  • Content acquisition for our platform.
  • Brainstorm ideas for new and innovative campaigns.

Part-time hours: 20-30 per week

Requirements

  • Completed or working towards degree in Marketing, Advertising, Communications, Public Relations, Journalism, or related field.
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
  • Knowledge and experience with digital marketing and social media platforms is highly desirable.
  • Demonstrated performance and experience as a positive team player.
  • Demonstrate great attention to detail.
  • Excellent time management and organisation skills.
  • You must be currently residing in Sydney, Australia and understanding Australian market.

Administration, sales (Part-time) – Closed

We are looking for an office administration, sales person to help our team with general office tasks, content acquisition.

The role

  • General office administration, office coordinator.
  • Data entry: collecting and entering user details into our platform.
  • Create listings for users to attract initial users.
  • Content acquisition for our platform.
  • Acquire new clients through direct contacts such as phone calls, emails.

Part-time hours: 20-30 per week

Requirements

  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
  • Knowledge and experience with digital marketing and social media platforms is highly desirable.
  • Demonstrated performance and experience as a positive team player.
  • Demonstrate great attention to detail.
  • Excellent time management and organisation skills.
  • You must be currently residing in Sydney, Australia and understanding Australian market.

Information Technology Help Desk Support – Closed

We are seeking a IT Help Desk team member to join our IT Team. Based at our Sydney Office you will assist the team in providing customer support across the region.

We are an employment platform that connects job seekers to employers who are looking to hire. Spare Staff aims to make things easier for both the employer and the employee by providing a quick and convenient solution to recruitment. As a growing team, we are looking for an enthusiastic and knowledgeable IT Helpdesk Support Team Member.

Responsibilities include:

Monitor and respond quickly to incoming requests related to IT issues.

Maintain computer systems and act as support if any system goes down.

Responsible for PC’s, Printers, Servers and related equipment (monitor, keyboard, mouse, hard drive, etc).

Assist with onboarding of new users.

Install, configure, and upgrade PC software.

Qualifications:

Experience with computer systems, PC repair, and network management.

Ability deploy, configure, and support operating systems on desktop and mobile.

Strong customer service skills.

Experience using Microsoft Office products, especially Outlook and Excel.

Work autonomously and as part of a team.

Time management and prioritisation skills.

Be part of a dedicated, collaborative team and put your career on track for a succession plan that provides supported learning and development with flexible work-life balance.

Open positions at our business partners

Kitchen hand, waiting staff all-rounder (Part-time)

A local busy Vietnamese restaurant is looking for waiters/ waitress and kitchen hand all-rounder with a happy, friendly and work efficient personality for a part-time or casual job to work in a team-friendly environment.

The role

Kitchen hand

  • Through a hands-on approach, maintain & improve standard of product.
  • Prepare, season and cook food as directed, meeting dietary requirements where required.
  • Follow recipes and presentation specifications.
  • Operate standard kitchen equipment safely and efficiently.
  • Clean and organise kitchen and equipment in adherence to hygiene and safety regulations.
  • Preserve and store foodstuffs in appropriate temperature-controlled facilities

Waiting staff

  • Possess excellent customer service and communication skills.
  • Be able to work as a team player but also independently without supervision.
  • Strong food and beverage knowledge or the willingness to learn.
  • Strong work ethic and immaculate personal presentation and grooming.

Availability to work weekdays and weekends.

Be able to multi-task and prioritise activities and have a passion and flair for exceeding customer expectations.

Junior office admin, assistant – Closed

A constructionn company in the Inner West is looking for an office assistant/all rounder to help in the day to day running of the office. Flexible part time to full time position.

The role

  • Organising and maintaining meeting schedules to ensure the head office is working harmoniously.
  • Word processing and other administrative tasks relating to documents, letters and presentations.
  • File management and key record keeping abilities.
  • Organisational support for meetings and functions, and daily functions.
  • Pro-active in assisting with general matters and daily progress of matters.
  • General administration and ad-hoc duties.
  • Take on all administrative tasks as directed by head of operations.
  • Organise and take minute meetings in a timely, accurate and professional manner if required.
  • Manage the Maintenance of all the head office floor and all equipment.
  • Liaise with internal/external stakeholders for building maintenance and repairs as required.
  • Head Office reception duties.
  • Event coordination duties for shared office space.
  • Assistance to office in the day to day running.
  • General administration duties.
  • Diary management and team administration.
  • General company administration such as photocopying, minute taking, filing and scanning and managing company collateral.
  • Office administration will include general day-to-day tasks; telephone skills, meeting and greeting clients etc.
  • Support company operations and maintains office efficiency by planning and implementing office systems, layouts, and equipment procurement.
  • Maintain and execute daily the company policy and procedure manual for company administration.
  • Document and presentation preparation.
  • Face of the company for first contact.
  • Events, launches and event day coordination of the head office space for such functions- support event management and marketing functions.
  • Support the execution of marketing campaigns and monitor performance.
  • Assist with promotional marketing collateral and activities.
  • Update and manage CRM, database, social media and website functions.

Skills and Experience required

  • Previous experience working as office admin, office coordinator in the construction, building management industry is highly desirable.
  • Marketing or sales related roles and hospitality environments is a bonus.
  • You are proactive, resourceful and resilient, and pride yourself on your exceptional administration, attention to detail and problem-solving skills.
  • You are technically savvy with excellent skills in Microsoft Office suite.
  • Strong organisational skills.
  • Pro-active to follow up on tasks to support the head office function.
  • Highly developed interpersonal skills with proven written and verbal communication skills.
  • Enthusiastic and helpful and can do attitude.
  • You have proven experience operating in a professional and fast-paced environment, and demonstrate the flexibility to adapt to meet changing priorities and deadlines.
  • You are outcomes focused and deliver your best work in a team of positive, engaged professionals.
  • The ability to be flexible, adaptable and value teamwork yet be able to work independently when required.
  • Strong computer skills with Excel, Word, Powerpoint and Outlook.
  • High level of initiative, responsibility and accountability.
  • Ability to recognize problems as they occur.
  • Mature aspect, well organised and enthusiastic and meticulous to detail.
  • Use of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook) is required.
  • Good organisational skills, ability to prioritise workload, work under pressure and meet deadlines.
  • Ability to multi task.
  • Good interpersonal and communication skills to deal with various levels of stakeholders internally and externally.