Health and Social Equity Officer

**Health and Social Equity Officer**:
**Job no**: 497951

**Work type**: Permanent Full Time

**Classification**: Band 6 ($88,493 - $95,456 pa)

**Categories**: Community Development

**Create our future together at the City of Greater Geelong**
At City of Greater Geelong, we are committed to working together for a thriving community. We do this by delivering over 130 services to our rapidly growing population and working hard to protect and improve what it is that makes Greater Geelong on Wadawurrung country such a great place to live, work and study.

We’re going through an exciting period of change that will help us serve our community better. From digital modernisation to the contemporary, sustainable office we've built in Central Geelong, now more than ever is a great time to join our team at the City of Greater Geelong.

Our Community is made up of diverse people from all walks of life, and it’s important to us that our workforce represents and celebrates this strength.

We encourage great people from all backgrounds to join us. We encourage authenticity, because inclusion makes us stronger.

If you’re excited about working together to create a Clever and Creative Greater Geelong, and joining a workplace where all people can thrive, then hit **apply** - we’d love to meet you

**About the role**
In this role, you will report to the Manager Community Experience and be responsible for delivering on the agreed action plans from the social equity framework. You will undertake community participation and research with a community experience lens to understand and capture the needs and concerns of our community stakeholders in the health and social equity areas. These insights will help improve the overall community experience and interactions people have with the City.

Key responsibilities include:

- In coordination with various internal departments, support the development and implementation of specific policies and programs that promote health equity and social justice within the community as per the action plans.
- As directed by the leader, undertake various activities to translate and communicate the needs of the community to improve the Council's services and program offerings to meet the community needs.
- Assist the City in developing, facilitating, and implementing the community experience action plans that responds to the needs of the community, based on data and insights, using customer experience, community development tools and methodologies, data analytics and insights.
- Conduct community research, collect data and present findings in various formats (presentations, reports) to advocate for the needs of the community and help inform decision-making.
- Liaise with community organisations, stakeholders and local networks enhancing relationships and partnerships to provide support to the community on various social and health priorities.

**About you**
To be successful in this role, you will use your experience of working with a diverse range of communities while being flexible and open to agile new ways of working.

Essential Experience:

- Tertiary qualifications in the Social or Health Sciences, Community Development or a related field, which focus on community development, social inclusion, health promotion or substantial relevant experience in a similar field.
- Demonstrated experience and success working with communities experiencing complex social, health or economic issues.
- Understanding of the principles and functions of research, policy development, customer experience and community outcomes.
- Experience in the conducting research on the gathering, analysis and reporting of demographic profile data and projections of community cohorts.
- Satisfactory Working with Children Check.

**A career with us**
With flexible working options, our people have choice in how and where they work. Our employees connect with us from across the Greater Geelong region and beyond.

Central Geelong-based City employees are now based in our new Civic Precinct, Wurriki Nyal. Meaning ‘speak and talk together’ in local Wadawurrung language. Wurriki Nyal sets the benchmark for what a sustainable, inclusive and culturally safe workplace can be, including industry leading sustainability standards, a flexible and people-focused design, safe and inclusive spaces and public realm.

We’re committed to supporting better accessibility for our customers and our people. We encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments or additional support you may require during the recruitment process, as well as how this role can be flexible for you.

We offer:

- flexible work arrangements including RDO options in specified work areas
- salary sacrificing and novated lease options
- cultural and ceremonial leave
- study leave
- paid parental leave (16 weeks primary and six weeks secondary) and superannuation payments on all 52 weeks primary parental leave
- IVF, surrogate and miscarriage bereavement leave
- trai