Community Development Coordinator

**Job Number**:
500810
- Permanent Full Time
- $129,747 pa + 12% super + leave loading (Level 8)
- 9 day fortnight
- 72.5 hour fortnight
- Hybrid, flexible working environment, including some work from home days.
- Location: Strathpine

Join City of Moreton Bay as a **Community Development Coordinator**, and help shape and enhance our communities for today and tomorrow.

As a Community Development Coordinator, you will:

- Lead a multi-disciplinary team of 12 to deliver impactful community development programs and initiatives
- Cultivate effective partnerships across Council, government, and community organisations
- Provide leadership support to two great Community Development Team Leaders with a diverse portfolio of initiatives, including work with:

- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
- Multicultural communities
- Young people
- People experiencing homelessness (including the Public Space Liaison Officer team)
- As well as community capacity building initiatives around Family and Domestic Violence and Abuse, Eco Fest, Grow it Local, Connected Communities and so much more
- Help your team navigate the sometimes-challenging role of community development in a local government environment.

**About you**

Are you a passionate and experienced leader, ready to make a difference?

With a background in community development and a flair for motivating teams, you thrive in collaborative environments and have a sharp eye for identifying what communities need to grow stronger and more resilient. You’ll bring:

- Proven skills in internal and external stakeholder engagement with the ability to forge and maintain collaborative partnerships
- Experience leading teams and projects in complex settings
- Strong experience in the development of individual and team capabilities - within a structured organisational framework.
- And ideally, an understanding of community development roles in government organisations.

**Why City of Moreton Bay?**

What you do with your life matters. It’s the same with your career.

We’re the third-largest council in Australia and one of the fastest-growing areas. As Australia’s newest city, we’re building something that’s never been done before: a new kind of city, inspired and empowered by a new kind of council.

This is your opportunity to develop skills and experience in a truly unique place, at a truly unique point in time.

At City of Moreton Bay, we’re focused on the vital work we do today. But we’re also focused on the future. On what _can be_ - for our city, our Council and your career.

Here’s what you’ll love about a career with us:

- See it. To build a city of the future, first, you have to _see it_. The polycentric city we’re building will bring greater prosperity, sustainability and affordability to our city. This is your chance to contribute to something that’s never been done before.
- Shape it. You’ll get hands-on in a rewarding career, serving and strengthening our communities for today and tomorrow. Our work is diverse, interesting and it matters - and it’s yours to shape and own.
- Live it. Contribute to the city you and your family want to live in and enjoy the lifestyle you deserve. And if you don’t live here, you’ll still find pride and connection in so many ways with our successful, resilient team.

**You’ll also enjoy a range of other benefits**:

- Find a better work-life balance with a nine-day fortnight.
- Advance your skills and career through our Study, Training And Research Scheme (STARS).
- Make your pay go further with salary packaging options on novated leases, superannuation payments, smartphones and devices.
- Prioritise your health and wellbeing with discounted health insurance, free annual flu vaccinations and our Fitness Passport Program.
- Get support when you and your family need it most with our 24/7 confidential counselling service, leader support hotline and Mates in Construction program.
- Our Caboolture and Strathpine offices have local parking on site and are close to public transport networks, making for an easy commute.

**Ready for a career that matters?**

Join City of Moreton Bay, and help shape our city of the future.

As part of the recruitment process, applicants will be required to undergo a National Criminal History Check.

**Your Future City.**
**See it. Shape it. Live It.**
- **Applications close 11:55pm Sunday, 12 October 2025.**

**Advertised**:
23 Sep 2025

**Applications close**:
12 Oct 2025 23:55