Council Liaison Coordinator

- Empower Councillors with expert advice and timely support.
- Permanent, Full-time opportunity

Here, your ideas and efforts directly shape the places where you and your community live, work, and play.

Through your work, you’ll have a behind the scenes pass to Newcastle's evolution as you shape our future as a liveable, inclusive city.

City of Newcastle (CN) is looking for a highly focused and detail‑oriented administrator to join our Legal and Governance team as a Council Liaison Coordinator in a permanent, full‑time capacity.

In this pivotal role, you will be responsible for coordinating functions that ensure Councillors receive high‑quality, accurate, timely, and professional information and advice. Your work will directly support Councillors in fulfilling their civic duties effectively and confidently.

Life at City of Newcastle (CN)

You’ll get to experience your work up close alongside the brilliant minds of your colleagues who care for one another and the region. You’ll chip away at ambitious plans with a talented, passionate crew alongside you, shaping the very fabric of our community. Showing up for neighbours not shareholders.

Every single day offers the chance to think big and act local. Planning and prioritising to achieve the most important outcomes with the community.

You’ll add value in the moments that matter. From librarians to lifeguards, in a range of iconic places, we achieve a better Newcastle together.

Whether we’re planning to host major events, providing essential services or supporting creative artists, it’s what we do when the cameras aren't rolling that matters most.

And we’ll be there for you in important times in your life. We embrace flexible work arrangements to find a balance that allows us to enjoy the city we shape.

Our focus on inclusion and respecting culture, will help you feel a deeper connection with others. You'll connect with internal communities that will help you to feel a sense of belonging and reflect the diversity of the growing region.

You’ll do meaningful work and do it sustainably as you take ideas from plan to play, in your own backyard.

With hundreds of different roles , each person adds their uniqueness to our culture and plays their part as we head towards our 2040 vision.

With natural assets and a focus on the environment, co‑create a sustainable region with us.

At CN, we value our employees, and their wellbeing takes priority. We encourage employees to make time for what’s important and provide the benefits to enable a work‑life balance that allow us to enjoy the city we shape.

- 35‑hour working week with flexible work options available

- 4 weeks of annual leave, 3 weeks of personal leave, plus 2 additional paid public holidays

- 17.5% annual leave loading yearly payment

- Paid parental leave for primary carers

- Industry leading employment conditions

- Corporate Fitness programme from as little as $12.90 per fortnight

- Access to a range of exclusive CN employee benefits programmes including Novated Lease options as well as access to reward and recognition voucher

- Annual performance development plans and ongoing training and development opportunities

- Leading the CN Way leadership programme

- Inclusion, Diversity & Equity (IDE) employee networks and initiatives

- Access to Health & Wellbeing programmes including an onsite physiotherapist and psychology, yoga and mental health ambassador groups

We champion inclusion so that everyone is valued, and we encourage innovation and creativity. We are committed to creating a safe and inclusive workplace where different styles, backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, encouraged, and respected.

People with diverse lived experiences (including but not limited to, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, people with diverse gender identities and sexualities, people from different cultural, racial, ethnic, religious and linguistic backgrounds, people with disability, carers, and veterans) are encouraged to apply.

Don’t just work for the city, co‑create it. Join and expand your career at the City of Newcastle.

Application Closing Date

Sunday 16 November 2025.

Remuneration

$107,672.94 + 17.5% annual leave loading yearly payment + 12% Superannuation per annum for a 35‑hour week.

Contact

Jade Baker – Governance Manager – 02 4974 1440

If you need any adjustments to be made to the recruitment process or if you would like to discuss any accessibility requirements, please contact recruit@ncc.nsw.gov.au for a confidential discussion.

You must have the right to live and work in Australia to apply for this job.

CN do not accept unsolicited resumes, and we respectfully ask that recruitment agencies do not contact us at this stage.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

City of Newcastle acknowledges that we operate on the grounds of the traditional country of the Awabakal and Worimi peoples. We recognise and respect their cultural heritage, beliefs and continuing relationship with the land, and that they are the proud survivors of more than two hundred years of dispossession. CN reiterates its commitment to address disadvantages and attain justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of this community.

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