Customer Service Representative

**Date**:12 Aug 2025

**Location**: Adelaide, SA, AU, 5000

**Company**:City of Adelaide
- Full time, fixed term position until February 2026
- Commencing at $79,526 + 12% super

**About the Opportunity**

You will enrich the customer experience by providing positive, meaningful and relevant suggestions and referrals to help us create a city everyone can enjoy.

Some of the things you’ll see yourself doing with us are:

- Providing professional customer service in our call centre.
- Providing face-to-face customer service at our front counter.

Please note that applicants moving to the next stage will need to be available to attend a group assessment on September 10 (Wednesday).

**Why join our team as a Customer Service Representative?**
CoA provides you with a great opportunity to build your career, while having a genuine impact on our city and our communities. As a Capital City Council, we have wide-ranging responsibilities that impact everyone who visits, works and plays in the City. As a CSR, you’ll be assisting customer queries, which will expose you to the many different services that Council provides. This includes everything from community wellbeing to urban planning, events to infrastructure, lifestyle experiences to heritage, corporate services and many more.

**About You**
To be successful in this role you will have:

- Demonstrated experience in delivering a high level of customer satisfaction in a fast-paced customer service environment.
- Previous call centre experience environment would be highly desirable, however we would also love to hear from you if you have fast-food, hospitality or retail experience too
- Demonstrated ability to plan and operate efficiently, under pressure to complete work.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to manage challenging clients and situations tactfully and sensitively, and sound numeracy skills.

**Eligibility**

**Pre-screening questions**:

- Have you worked in a customer service role in any of these industries? Fast food / Hospitality, Retail, Inbound Call Centre Environment, Local / Government Agencies or Transport / Travel Companies?
- Have you ever worked in a role where you were required to enforce policies that customers may not necessarily agree with?
- Do you have experience using multiple computer systems simultaneously while dealing with customer enquiries?
- Do you have experience searching and navigating a company knowledge base (e.g. Sharepoint, intranet) to find solutions quickly?
- Have you worked in a fast-paced, demanding environment where you were responsible for handling a wide range of enquiries?

**About Us**
Located in the geographic heart of Kaurna Country, the City of Adelaide celebrates its cultural heritage, unique natural surrounds and structures its footprint in a way that allows it to adapt to the changing needs of the community and a dynamic global landscape. Our focus is on our community’s wellbeing and quality of life - investing in city improvements and on future planning, so we continue to design a liveable city where future generations can continue to live authentic and meaningful lives. This is an exciting opportunity to join our team and be a bigger part of our amazing city

The Customer and Marketing Team supports extraordinary customer experiences, celebrates our city through the delivery of creative and digital services, and enhances our reputation by promoting our achievements and initiatives.

At the City of Adelaide, we thrive in an environment that is welcoming, inclusive and safe, and celebrates difference. We value and embrace our diverse perspectives and recognise the value diversity has in fuelling innovation and enabling brilliant experiences for our diverse community.

**For Further Enquiries & How to Apply**
All enquiries regarding this position will remain private and confidential and can be directed to Tammy Bria on 08 8203 7139.

If you’re interested in this role, please submit a resume online. There is no need for a cover letter, however, there are a few pre-screening questions for you to respond to.

**Applications close at 11.59pm, 18 August 2025.**

Please be advised this is a full-time, fixed term opportunity until February 2026 with a starting salary at the Level 3 Classification commencing at $79,526 + 12% superannuation. This recruitment is also to establish a pool for any vacancies that arise in this role within the next 3 months.

**Where to from here?**

Should you meet the required skills needed for the role, we’ll invite you to a one-on-one interview where you can share more of your skills and experiences with us.

We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, and people living with disability to apply.