Community Participation and Connection Officer

Full Time Permanent Position - Starting in June 2024

Band 5 - Salary Range $76,355 to $87,925 per annum + 11% Super + RDO

Salary offered will depend on level of skills and experience.

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

The team are seeking a highly motivated self-starter who has strong skills in activating local communities using a community development-based approach.  

Our Community Participation and Connection team create vibrant community activity through facilitated, locally accessible, community driven experiences, programs and projects. 

Key Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with stakeholders and community to plan, implement, and evaluate a suite of programs and activities that respond to the identified needs of the local community and activate community facilities.
• Support the development and implementation of a range of community engagement processes to identify local themes and build capacity of the broader Melton community.
• Build effective relationships to support hirers of the community facility and promote Council’s community facilities and the programs, services and activities delivered from those facilities.
• Recruit and provide direction and support to contract tutors, casual staff, volunteers, and students working within Council’s community facilities.

To view the Position Description, click here.

About you

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

• Degree or diploma in community development, social sciences, learning or education with little or no relevant work experience, or lesser formal qualifications with relevant work skills and experience.
• Experience in activating local communities and community centres using a community development-based framework.
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) including the ability to adapt communications to identified need and/or purpose, build relationships and gain cooperation with stakeholders from a broad range of backgrounds.
• 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

• 13 ADO's (Accrued Day Off) per year
• 4 weeks and 2 days annual leave (As of 1st of July 2024 will increase to 5 weeks) 
• 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

How To Apply

If you require further information about the position, please contact Carly Billingham, Team Leader Community Participation & Connection on 0448 210 568.

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 1 May 2024