Marketing and Communications Advisor

**Salary $93k - $100k per annum + 11.5% Superannuation**
- **Permanent Part time - 4 Days a week (0.8 FTE) + flexible working**
- **Newly created positions, two roles available**
- **Located at our Nunawading office starting 3 February 2025
At Whitehorse City Council, community is at the heart of everything we do. To stay ahead of and best respond to the evolving changes and needs of the community, the organisation is undertaking an exciting journey that will transform ways of working and will empower employees to be innovative and constantly striving towards providing excellent customer experience at all times. The five pillars of our transformation focus on:

- Excellent Customer Experience and Service Delivery
- Great Organisational Culture
- Innovation and Continuous Improvement
- Good Governance and Integrity
- Long Term Financial Sustainability

**The role**:
We are looking for two exceptional marketers to join our newly transformed team. You will be an experienced marketing and communications professional with excellent content-creation and campaign management skills.

These roles will sit in the newly established Marketing and Communications team and report into the Coordinator Marketing and Communications. You will be responsible for developing and delivering an end-to-end marketing service for arts and cultural services, The Round (our state-of-the art performing arts centre), Aqualink and Leisure Facilities and other Council community services.

If successful you will help shape our new Communications, Advocacy and Investment Department and support the establishment of Council's centralised marketing function.

**About you**:
To be successful in this role, you will have tertiary qualifications and/or experience in communications, marketing and/or related field.

You will know how to use your creativity to create engaging campaigns and know how to be hands-on the marketing tools to drive customer reach and conversions.

You will not be afraid to dabble in multimedia content creation such as photography, videography and basic graphic design - and if you haven't before, you will be open to learning new skills.

You will know how to use data to track how your marketing activities are going and be able to adapt your campaigns accordingly.

You will know how to tailor content for different audiences and understand how to use different channels effectively.

You will love working in a team environment and happy to help out when your colleagues need it. You will also have the ability to collaborate with internal stakeholders to achieve mutual business objectives.

**In return, we will offer**:
**The ability to make a difference - **Working at Whitehorse City Council you contribute to making a real difference in the lives of the community and those that live, learn, work or visit Whitehorse. Every day you really will see how the work you're involved in benefits the diverse community.

**Great working conditions **- a professional environment, friendly and supportive teams and a flexibility program that promotes employee work life balance.

**An extensive Health and Wellbeing offering **- Employee assistance program, private health insurance benefits, health checks (skin, hearing and vaccinations), discounted gym membership and facilities (e.g. Theatre, Arts, Leisure) and an active health and wellness program (e.g. stretching, healthy eating demonstrations and health challenges.

**Transformation**:

- We are in a time of transformation to stay ahead of the evolving changes and needs of our community. Together, we are on an exciting journey to empower all of our employees to be innovative, and constantly strive towards continuous improvement.

**Reward & Recognition - **extensive reward and recognition program, corporate learning offerings, study assistance and comprehensive leadership development programs.

**Further Information**:
**Come and join the transformation
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Marketing and Communications Advisor
- City of Whitehorse is a culturally and linguistically diverse community. We are proud of the diversity of our workforce and recognise the strength this provides in meeting the needs of our community. We are committed to upholding a safe, inclusive and respectful workplace that values the contribution of all. _
- Whitehorse City Council is committed to being a child safe organisation. We recognise our responsibilities to keep children and young people safe from harm and have established policies, procedures and training to achieve these commitments.ABOUT US

The City of Whitehorse, located 15 kilometres east of the Melbourne CBD, is a culturally diverse community of almost 177,000 people. Whitehorse includes the suburbs of Box Hill, Burwood, Nunawading, Blackburn, Mitcham, Forest Hill and Vermont and is characterised by quiet tree-lined residential streets, an abundance of parks, gardens and natural bushland reserves, bustling shopping centres and a diverse range