**Who we are**

Mornington Peninsula Cemetery Trust (MPCT) manages and maintains four cemeteries on the Mornington Peninsula located at Mornington, Dromana, Flinders and Tyabb. You will work within a small team to provide quality cemetery service operations that meet our community needs and ensure our cemeteries are maintained at a high standard.

The Trust is supported by the Mornington Peninsula Shire Council. The successful applicant would be an employee of the Mornington Peninsula Shire Council for the duration of their employment.

Shire is Victoria's destination municipality, characterised by unique townships, highly productive agriculture, world renowned landscapes, tourist regions, and areas of national and international conservation significance within a vital Green Wedge.

The Shire is responsible for a broad range of infrastructure and community services that support the wellbeing and prosperity of our diverse community. With approximately 900 employees, Mornington Peninsula Shire is a busy and vibrant workplace.

**How you’ll make a difference**

The Cemeteries Officer is responsible for the administration and support of all Mornington Peninsula Cemetery Trust cemeteries in line with the Department of Health guidelines and in accordance with the Cemeteries and Crematoria Act 2003 and the Cemeteries and Crematoria Regulations 2015.

The role also includes the scheduling and coordination of burials and cremated remains interments ensuring they are carried out without incident and in line with Cemeteries and Crematoria Act 2003.

As our Cemeteries Officer you will:

- Assist with the facilitation of bookings for burials, cremated remains interments and plaque orders as per the Department of Health guidelines.
- Meet with the public to provide advice and assistance in regard to selecting either a burial site or cremation memorial site by accompanying them to the relevant areas within the cemeteries as required.
- Provide correct, up to date and authoritative advice concerning different grave and cremation memorial options available for purchase and the associated fees.
- Sound understanding of financial practice and provide related administration functions.
- Attention to details and ability to solve problems

Frequent travel around the Mornington Peninsula is required as you will be visiting our Cemeteries, checking on maintenance, managing relationships and planning future works.

Flexibility in your work hours as you will occasionally need to attend to items such as meetings outside of traditional work hours.

**What you’ll bring to our team**
- You want to live our values
- Your experience in dealing empathetically with matters of a sensitive and emotional nature.
- Excellent communication and organisational skills with an ability to achieve outcomes for the benefit of the Mornington Peninsula community
- Sound understanding of financial practices and business management.
- Solid knowledge of the principles of OH&S legislation or willingness to learn
- Up-to-date knowledge of Cemetery legislation and cemetery operations.
- Well-developed evaluation, analytics, and problem-solving skills

**Why you’ll want to join us**
- Salary from $73,333.24 per annum (Band 5), plus superannuation
- Fixed Term Full-Time role (10 months)
- Hybrid working options
- Flexible work hours available
- Opportunities for training and development
- Paid attendance for industry events
- Employee Assistance Program
- Tools of the trade including laptop and mobile phone

To get a better understanding of what a day, a week or month would look like in this role, please review the Position Description for specific information about this role.

**Want to know more?**

Conditions of employment are in accordance with the Mornington Peninsula Shire Council Enterprise Agreement 2020 and our Code of Conduct. The successful applicant will be required to provide the following:

- Current Police Check
- Working with Children Check - employer
- Current Victorian Driver’s licence
- MPS employees must declare their COVID-19 Vaccination status, if vaccinated, evidence of vaccination certificate will be required.

The Mornington Peninsula Shire is committed to creating a diverse and safe environment. We are proud to be an equal opportunity and Child Safe employer. We welcome applicants who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, have a disability, and/or a form a culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) background.

**Applicants must have valid Australian work rights.**

**Make contact**:For a confidential discussion about this exciting opportunity, please contact**:Jenny Brown, Senior Cemeteries Officer - 03 5950 1284.