Business Development Officer

2 months ago

Coburg, Australia Merri-bek City Council Full time

**Hybrid Working **#LI-Hybrid**:

- **Part-time permanent role (based on 38 hours per week)**:

- **0.8 FTE role - commencing early 2025**:

- **Salary: $99k - $108k + Super (pro rata)**:

- **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 City Council is looking for a suitably experienced practitioner to fill the position of Business Development Officer. The role focuses on supporting and developing local businesses in Merri-bek, including the delivery of third-party training and development seminars for businesses, business networking events, connecting businesses into business development opportunities, and sourcing and disseminating business relevant information. The role is ideally suited to a people person with a passion for supporting and connecting with small and medium business owners, and with experience of planning and running business networking and other similar events.

As a member of the Economic Development team, you will work with Economic Development practitioners and others across Council to facilitate support for businesses to enable them to grow and develop. This position will report into the Unit Manager Economic Development and will work on a varied and interesting range of programs and projects, including Council’s Merri-bek Business Women’s Network, Food Melbourne’s North, North Link and other stakeholders and programs.

**Skills and experience require to perform the role**:

- A tertiary qualification in an appropriate discipline or sufficient relevant experience
- Demonstrated experience arranging and running business support & training, and business networking events
- Sound networking and stakeholder relationship management skills
- Demonstrated commercial and business acumen

This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a high performing and long-established economic development team in one of Melbourne’s most innovative and progressive local government areas.

An enthusiastic and energetic approach and your demonstrated ability to foster strong relationships with a variety of stakeholders are also essential.

**What the role can offer**:

- Extensive opportunities for training & career development
- Salary sacrifice options
- A real sense of work-life balance & flexible work options
- Employer-supported study assistance schemes
- Wellness programs

**Further support offered for our staff**:

- Up to 20 week's primary & up to 5 weeks secondary parental leave
- Purchase leave
- Ceremonial leave
- Gender affirmation leave
- Family violence leave

**Applications close: 11:30pm, Sunday 17 November 2024.**

**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 Merri-bek 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.

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