Community Engagement Partner

2 weeks ago

Coburg, Victoria, Australia Merri-bek City Council Full time

Hybrid Working #LI-Hybrid**:

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1x Part time position working 4 days per week:


  • 1x Full time position
  • 38 hours per week with access to a 19-day month:
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Maximum term contract to June 2025:


  • Salary: $97k
  • $105k + Super (pro-rata for part time):
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Ability to transfer or take LSL (Long Service Leave) within Local Government

About Merri-bek City Council:

Merri-bek City Council is a progressive council of 175,000 residents: one community, proudly diverse.

Our council area sits within the banks of the Merri Creek and the Moonee Ponds Creek, and includes Brunswick, Coburg, Fawkner, Glenroy, Gowanbrae, Hadfield, Oak Park and Pascoe Vale.

Our city is vibrant and energetic, known for its active community, cultural diversity, creative industries and the arts. Our long-term vision has ambitious goals for environmental sustainability, social justice, community wellbeing, and creating great places.

With the Civic Centre located in Coburg, 8 kilometres north of Melbourne's CBD, there are excellent public transport options and great food and cafés right at the doorstep.


Merri-bek Council strives to be a contemporary, innovative and collaborative organisation with a deep commitment to engaging and supporting the Merri-bek community.

Our organisational vision is to be one team, brave and diverse, making a difference.

We pride ourselves on being an inclusive and welcoming workplace. We offer flexible and hybrid work options and genuinely care about providing our staff work/life balance.

With the Civic Centre located in Coburg, 8 kilometres north of Melbourne's CBD, there are excellent public transport options and great food, cafés, parks and a cinema right at the doorstep.

Merri-bek is a great place to live, work and play.

About the role:

Merri-bek Council has a target to reach the top 25% of Councils for excellence in community engagement.

We are working to build our organisational capacity and capability to have great conversations with our community, and to involve them in the decisions that impact and interest them.

Our goal is to create a truly engaging culture at Merri-bek built on strong and productive partnerships with our community.


The Community Engagement Partner is jointly responsible for planning community engagement and community strengthening initiatives for Council, and has a relationship-focused, capacity building approach to engaging both Council and the community.

The role provides specialist advice and works to build the capacity of Merri-bek Council to design and deliver effective community engagement, while also building Council's relationship and reputation with the Merri-bek community.


Skills and experience require to perform the role:

  • Strong capabilities in building and maintaining constructive partnerships with stakeholders to build capacity and skills in community engagement.
  • Ability or willingness to develop ability in facilitating workshops, focus groups and other qualitative social research and community engagement activities.
  • Understanding of the legislative context of community engagement at a local government level in Victoria since the adoption of the Local Government Act 2020.
  • Understanding of planning for access, social equity and inclusion.
  • Understanding of social policy and social impact assessment methodologies.
  • Familiarity with budgeting techniques.

What the role can offer:

  • Monthly RDO (Full time position)
  • Extensive opportunities for training & career development
  • Salary sacrifice options
  • A real sense of worklife balance & flexible work options
  • Employersupported study assistance schemes
  • Wellness programs

Further support offered for our staff:

  • Up to 20 weeks primary & up to 5 weeks secondary parental leave
  • Purchase leave
  • Ceremonial leave
  • Gender affirmation leave
  • Family violence leave

Applications close: 11:30pm, Wednesday, 12 July 2023.

How to apply:

  • Please note that some documents relating to this position may reference Moreland City Council. We are in the process of updating the councils new name of Merribek City Council.
Merri-bek is focused on diverse representation of the community we serve.

With this we value lived experience that could contribute to the shaping of this role and in turn will continue to provide representation and growth of safe and inclusive work culture.


Our Commitment:


In May 2021, Merri-bek Council adopted a revised Statement of Commitment to Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung People and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities of the municipality.

The statement recognises the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people as the traditional owners of the lands and waterways of our municipality.

Merri-bek City Council is committed to being a Child Safe Organisation and has zero tolerance for child abuse.

We believe children and young people have the right to be and feel safe and that their safety and wellbeing is the responsibility of everyone.

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