Literacy and Learning Programs Officer

Part Time Permanent Position - 28 hours per week 

Monday to Thursday + 1:4 Saturdays 9:50am-12:00pm 

Band 4 - Salary Range $70,018 to $74,233 per annum Pro Rata + 11% Super

About Melton City Council

The City of Melton is a community where everyone belongs. Ours is a vibrant and diverse municipality — one of the fastest developing in Australia. Our organisation strives to provide our community with state-of-the-art amenity and facilities, engaging health and wellbeing options, and support to become active members of our Lifelong Learning City.

We invest in innovation, offering professional and personal development, and generous leave and flexibility to staff, while also fostering a collaborative and inclusive culture. You’ll be able to work close to home in a dynamic setting featuring cafes and retail options set amongst heritage buildings and open green spaces.

The Opportunity

Melton City Libraries is seeking a creative and enthusiastic storyteller and program facilitator to develop and deliver early years and school years services and programs. This parttime position working Monday-Thursday is based at our Melton Library and Learning Hub, a state-of-the art community hub in the heart of Melton.   

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality customer service across the library service to ensure customers have a positive experience characterised by active engagement, providing direction to library officers as required.
• Participate in rostered library customer service shifts at library facilities or outreach points and proactively engage with customers to maximise their use of resources, equipment, technology, and online platforms.
• Support the delivery of early years and school years programs across the library service by developing program proposals and plans and contributing to the planning and evaluation of the calendar of events.
• Facilitate and deliver a range of early years and primary school years programs across the library service including story time, baby bounce, toddler time, outreach visits, school holiday programs, New Parents Groups and after school programs.

To view the Position Description, click here.

About you

To be successful in this role you will have the following:

• A Tertiary qualification acceptable for technician membership of the Australian Library and Information Association together with public library experience, or other relevant qualification together with relevant public library and/or program delivery experience.
• A passion for storytelling and community engagement, with a customer-centric approach to your work. 
• Current valid Victorian Driver’s Licence.
• Must hold or be able to obtain an Employee Working with Children Check.

Culture and Values

Our vision for our community is to be: "A vibrant, safe and liveable city accessible to all" and that means there’s a place here for you too. Our organisational values represent us as an established growth Council and the values are reflected in everything we do; our decision-making, our actions and our service provision to the community. Council has a diverse and vibrant organisation and we’d love to have you join us to help shape a city for the future.

We are Vibrant MELTON. Our values are:

• Motivate
• Empower
• Lead
• Trust
• Open
• Nurture 

Benefits

There are a number of great reasons why our people love working at Melton City Council: 

Staff Benefits | Melton City Council

• 4 weeks and 2 days annual leave (As of 1st of July 2024 will increase to 5 weeks pro rata)*
• Flexible Working Hours
• Extensive Career Development & Leadership Programs
• 16 weeks Paid Parental Leave (Super is paid during parental leave)*
• 3 weeks Paid Secondary Carer Leave*
• Family Room available including Breastfeeding Facilities (Melton City Council | Australian Breastfeeding Association)
• Wellbeing initiatives
• Subsidised Uniforms

*These benefits are pro rata. 

How To Apply

If you require further information about the position, please contact Casey Ferris, Team Leader Literacy and Learning Programs on 8099 6364.

Applications must include a Resume and address the Key Selection Criteria outlining your suitability to the role. To address the Key Selection Criteria, you will need to write short statements explaining how you meet the criteria, or how you demonstrate the capability. We encourage you to keep your responses concise. 

To be eligible for employment at Melton City Council you must be legally entitled to work in Australia.

All successful applicants will need to undertake pre-employment requirements including but not limited to a satisfactory criminal history record check. Successful applicants must be able to comply with any COVID-19 Public Health Orders applicable to Local Government employees and Council’s COVID-19 vaccination policy which require employees to provide documentary evidence of their vaccination status before attending the workplace.

We strongly encourage job applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disabilities, LGBTIQA+ and people from culturally diverse backgrounds. If selected for an interview and you require any additional support or adjustments regarding interview arrangements, please advise the contact listed above in advance.

Melton City Council is committed to being a child safe organisation and has Zero tolerance for child abuse. Melton City Council is committed to creating and maintaining a child safe organisation where protecting children and preventing and responding to child abuse is at the centre of our everyday thinking and service delivery.

 Applications close 11:59pm Wednesday 24 April 2024