IT Project Officer

**Full Time Permanent Position**

**Salary Range $96,640 to $108,020 per annum + 10.5% Super + RDO**

**About Melton City Council**

The City of Melton is a community where everyone belongs. Ours is a vibrant and diverse municipality—one of the fastest developing in Australia. Our organisation strives to provide our community with state-of-the-art amenity and facilities, engaging health and wellbeing options, and support to become active members of our Lifelong Learning City.

We invest in innovation, offering professional and personal development, and generous leave and flexibility to staff, while also fostering a collaborative and inclusive culture. You’ll be able to work close to home in a dynamic setting featuring cafes and retail options set amongst heritage buildings and open green spaces.

**The Opportunity**

At the Melton City Council, we strive to create a vibrant and liveable city accessible to all. The Innovation & Transformation department contributes to this vision by transforming Melton City Council service delivery to achieve operational excellence, build community trust and enhancing citizen experience when engaging with council services.

As the IT project manager within the Digital Citizen Experience team, you will lead the implementation of citizen-facing digital initiatives. Reporting directly to the Digital Citizen Experience Coordinator, you will work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders. As part of Melton Councils first Development Operations team, you will play a pivotal role in transitioning our team from using traditional waterfall project delivery methodologies to new agile ways of working.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Lead the team to develop project plans, cost estimates and identify resource requirements for individual projects.
- Monitor IT project and related organisational risks, take remediation actions or escalate where required and make recommendations.
- Collaborate with stakeholders, including vendors, realise approaches to quality, risk communication, knowledge, change control, and manage the project on all its performance parameters.
- Report on the performance of projects and assist the product/project owner in the project's governance.

**About you**

**_ To be successful in this role you will have the following:_**
- Ability to build strong relationships with and between stakeholders, relevant communities, service providers.
- Have an awareness of Melton diverse municipality.
- Adaptable in a fast-changing environment.
- Ability to learn on the fly and a self-directed learner.
- Financial, risk, governance and human resource management.
- Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Specialist technology development, operation and support skills.
- Experience with agile project management.
- Project Management qualification and certifications.

**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

**Benefits**

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

- 19 Day Month
- Flexible Working Hours
- Extensive Career Development & Leadership Programs
- 16 weeks Paid Parental Leave
- 3 weeks Paid Secondary Carer Leave
- Family Room available including Breastfeeding Facilities (Melton City Council | Australian Breastfeeding Association)
- Wellbeing initiatives
- Subsidised Uniforms

**How To Apply**

If you require further information about the position, please contact Pamela Warwick, Digital Citizen Experience Coordinator on 0448 693 530.

To view the Position Description, click here.

Applications **must** include a Resume and address the Key Selection Criteria outlining your suitability to the role.

We encourage you to use the STAR approach when writing your responses to the selection criteria.
- Situation (Task) - provide a brief outline of the situation or task?_
- Action - what did you do in response to the situation or task?_
- Result - what was the result of your action?_

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.
- Successful applicants must comply with COVID-19 Public Health Orders applicable to Local Government employees and Council’s COVID-19 vaccination policy which require employees to provide documentary evidence of their vaccination status before attending the workplace._

Applications close 5.