Communications Officer

4 weeks ago

Coburg, Australia Merri-bek City Council Full time

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

- **Full time maximum term role until 2027 (based on 35 hours per week)**:

- **Fortnightly RDO**:

- **Salary: $81k - $92k + Super**:

- **Ability to transfer or take LSL (Long Service Leave) within Local Government**

**About Merri-bek City Council**:
Merri-bek is a progressive council with 180,000 residents: one community, proudly diverse. Our city is vibrant and energetic, known for its active community, array of fabulous festivals, cool pools, eclectic shops and our community of artists and creative industries. As a Council, we’ve been supporting our community through difficult times, and our long-term vision has ambitious goals for environmental sustainability, community wellbeing, and creating great places.

Merri-bek City Council strives to be a contemporary, innovative and collaborative organisation with a deep commitment to engagement with, the Merri-bek community. 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 City Council is a great place to live, work and play.

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. **Our organisation vision is: One team brave and diverse making a difference.**

**About the role**:
We are looking for a creative and energetic team member to be part of our Accessible Communications Team to help engage with multicultural communities, with a focus on reaching older people.

You will have the opportunity to help us deliver our Merri-bek Connectors Program, our paid volunteer program with members of our diverse community, help reach diverse communities to inform and engage with them about Council services, programs and projects and you will play an important part in delivering our Accessible and Inclusive Communications Policy.

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

- Experience supporting communications initiatives and campaigns
- Experience working with multicultural and multilingual communities
- Demonstrated ability to build community connections
- Ability to manage a range of stakeholders, problem solve and work well with others.
- Experience working in project or program delivery, or in a related area
- Ability to speak a Merri-bek community language is highly desired - For example, but not exclusive to: Arabic, Chinese, Turkish, Urdu, Greek, Italian, Vietnamese or Nepali.

**What the role can offer**:

- Fortnightly RDO
- An impactful role in driving positive change and empowerment within multicultural communities.
- A supportive and inclusive work environment that values diversity.
- 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 weeks primary & up to 5 weeks secondary parental leave
- Purchase leave
- Ceremonial leave
- Gender affirmation leave
- Family violence leave

**Applications close: 11:30pm, Monday, 11 September 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 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.

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. You can read more about our Child Safety Commitment Statement on our website.

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