Gallery Attendant

**Multiple casual roles available**:

- **Location: Counihan Gallery, 233 Sydney Road Brunswick VIC 3056**:

- **Salary: $39.99 per hour + casual loading**:

- **Ability to transfer or take LSL (Long Service Leave) 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**:
Named after the Australian artist and activist Noel Counihan (1913-1986 and located on Sydney Road in the beating heart of Brunswick, the Counihan Gallery is a contemporary art space renowned for presenting a political and socially progressive artistic program. We have an impressive exhibition program, designed to increase opportunities for artists and to develop a creative, thriving arts community in Merri-bek.

We are seeking casual Gallery Attendants who can bring their passion for audience engagement and visual arts to our small but motivated team. In performing this role, your day-to-day responsibilities will be to assist with customer service and gallery events and activities. You will also contribute to gallery administration tasks, as well as exhibition installation. You will bring a positive outlook and can-do attitude to your work.

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

- Ability to provide excellent customer service and attend to visitor enquiries.
- Good communication skills, with experience supporting people from different backgrounds, experiences, and abilities.
- Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team, as well as independently.
- Experience in marketing, events and/or artwork installation, particularly in the gallery context.
- A proven understanding of safe work practices in relation to working in a gallery environment including identifying and reporting workplace hazards.
- Knowledge of contemporary art practice and issues.
- A current Working with Children Check.
- Multilingual skills and ability to communicate with visitors to the gallery who may speak a language other than English is desirable.
- Responsible Service of Alcohol, First Aid Certificate and Driver’s License are desirable.

**What the role can offer**:

- Opportunities for training & career development
- A real sense of work-life balance & flexible work options
- The opportunity to work alongside a dynamic and supportive team

**For further information about this position please contact Linda Short, Team Leader Gallery and Arts Programs on 8311 4190**.**

**Applications close: 11:30pm, Sunday 18 May 2025.**

**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.

**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 Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people as the traditional owners of the lands and waterways of our municipality.

Merri-bek City Council is committed to being a Child Safe Organisation and has zero tolerance for child abuse. We believe children and young people have the right to be and feel safe and that their safety and wellbeing is the responsibility of everyone. You can read more about our Child Safety Commitment Statement on our website.