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Part Time Fixed Term Position - October 2025 to January 2026

21 hrs per week | 7 hrs per day - Wednesday, Thursday & Friday (includes 1 evening and 1 Saturday per month)

Band 4 - Salary Range $74,283 to $78,754 per annum Pro Rata + 12% Super

Salary offered will depend on level of skills and experience.

Why join Melton City Council?

Melton City Council is proud to serve one of Australia’s fastest-growing and most diverse communities. We are a forward-thinking local government committed to creating a city where everyone feels welcome, supported, and empowered.

As a Council, we are driven by innovation, inclusion, and excellence. We deliver high-quality services and infrastructure, promote lifelong learning, and champion health and wellbeing across our municipality. Our team plays a vital role in shaping a vibrant, sustainable future for our residents.

Working with us means being part of a collaborative and inclusive culture that values your growth. We offer:

- Professional and personal development opportunities
- Generous leave entitlements and flexible work arrangements
- A dynamic workplace close to home, surrounded by heritage charm, green spaces, and modern amenities

Join us and help build a city that thrives—where your work makes a real difference every day.

The Opportunity

As a member of the team, you will have the opportunity to engage with the community around collections, technology to supporting lifelong learning, and provide access to library resources for those unable to visit our physical locations. This position reports to Team Leader Library Customer Experience. This position services both internal and external stakeholders, including library members, library staff, and the general public. In this role you will:

- Deliver high quality customer service at council library facilities that is responsive to community need.
- Support access to library resources and services through home delivery and resource sharing.

Key Responsibilities

- Deliver high quality customer service across the library service to ensure customers have a positive experience characterised by active engagement, providing direction to library officers as required.
- Participate in rostered library customer service shifts at library facilities or outreach points and proactively engage with customers to maximise their use of resources, equipment, technology and online platforms.
- Liaise with home delivery service clients, and residential facilities to determine service needs and seek opportunities to improve resource access.
- Support the delivery of learning, literacy and outreach programs across the library service and at external locations.
- Contribute to the Collections team, through maintenance and development of the library collection, the weeding program, collection improvement initiatives, and providing input in relation to area of responsibility.

To view the Position Description, click here.

About you

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

- A post-secondary qualification acceptable for technician membership of the Australian Library and Information Association together with experience, or lesser qualification together with relevant public library experience.
- Experience working in public libraries or a customer focussed organisation.
- Hold a current 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

There are a number of great reasons why our people love working at Melton City Council:

- 16 weeks Paid Parental Leave (Super is paid during parental leave)

Part Time positions Pro Rata and Fixed term positions eligible after 12 months of employment.

How To Apply

If you require further information about the position, please contact Nick Tomé, Team Leader Library Customer Experience on 9747 5913.

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 public health orders applicable to local government.

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 01 October 2025

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