Creative Content Officer

**Permanent Part Time role (4 days per week - 0.8FTE)**:

- **Salary - $84K to $95K + Super (pro rata)**:

- **Based at our Coburg Offices with hybrid Working Arrangements available**:

- **Ability to Transfer or take LSL (Long Service Leve) within Local Government**

**About Merri-bek City Council**:
Merri-bek City Council is a progressive council of 175,000 residents: one community, proudly diverse. Our council area sits within the banks of the Merri Creek and the Moonee Ponds Creek, and includes Brunswick, Coburg, Fawkner, Glenroy, Gowanbrae, Hadfield, Oak Park and Pascoe Vale. Our city is vibrant and energetic, known for its active community, cultural diversity, creative industries and the arts. Our long-term vision has ambitious goals for environmental sustainability, social justice, community wellbeing, and creating great places. With the Civic Centre located in Coburg, 8 kilometres north of Melbourne’s CBD, there are excellent public transport options and great food and cafés right at the doorstep.

Merri-bek Council strives to be a contemporary, innovative and collaborative organisation with a deep commitment to engaging and supporting the Merri-bek community. Our organisational vision is to be one team, brave and diverse, making a difference.

We pride ourselves on being an inclusive and welcoming workplace. We offer flexible and hybrid work options and genuinely care about providing our staff work/life balance. With the Civic Centre located in Coburg, 8 kilometres north of Melbourne’s CBD, there are excellent public transport options and great food, cafés, parks and a cinema right at the doorstep. Merri-bek is a great place to live, work and play.

**About the role**:
The Communications Unit at Merri-bek City Council is transforming as we embark on a journey to become a customer-centric, high performing team, focussed on delivering exceptional value for our organisation and community. We are seeking enthusiastic, driven, and innovative people to help us turn our goals into actions.
You will work with Communications and Design professionals to drive Council’s creative vision, design process developing compelling concepts and designs across various mediums like print, digital, and social media to effectively communicate ideas, ensuring all designs align to our brand and style guidelines. The position will work closely with colleagues across the organisation to shape ideas into creative strategies and solutions, for both internal and external communication requirements.

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**Skills and experience require to perform the role**:

- Proven ability to visually communicate messages, ideas and services through high-quality, creative design.
- Strong end-to-end design skills, from concept development through to final execution across print and digital formats.
- Ability to create engaging content for digital channels, including websites, social media and eNewsletters, with a focus on enhancing user experience.
- A high level of computer literacy and ability to use a range of computer software packages including Content Management Systems, Adobe Creative Suite, and other content creation tools/systems.
- Highly developed written and verbal communication skills with the ability to produce high quality content for traditional and digital media.
- The ability to research, develop, implement and evaluate external and internal communications content and strategies.
- Collaborate with and support team members on best-practice design approaches and creative concepts.
- Play a key role in refining and evolving Merri-bek’s brand to ensure it stays fresh, consistent and community-focused.
- Provide expert design and branding advice within the Communications Unit to support high-quality, community-facing content and improved workflows.

**What the role can offer**:

- Extensive opportunities for training & career development
- Salary sacrifice options
- A real sense of work-life balance & flexible work options
- Employer-supported study assistance schemes
- Wellness programs

**Further support offered for our staff -**:

- Up to 20 weeks primary & up to 5 weeks secondary parental leave
- Purchase leave
- Ceremonial leave
- Gender affirmation leave
- Family violence leave

**Applications close: 11:30pm, Tuesday, 6 May 2025.**

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**How to apply**:

- Please note that some documents relating to this position may reference Moreland City Council. We are in the process of updating the councils new name of Merri-bek City Council.

Merri-bek is focused on diverse representation of the community we serve. With this we value lived experience that could contribute to the shaping of this role and in turn will continue to provide representation and growth of safe and inclusive work culture.

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**Our Commitment**:
In May 2021, Merri-bek Council adopted a revised Statement of Commitment to Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung People and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities of the municipality. The statement recognises the Wur