Unit Manager Compliance Operations

**Full time permanent role (based on 38 hours per week)**:

- **Salary: SEO**:

- **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**:
A key senior leadership role within Merri-bek City Council, the Unit Manager Compliance Operations oversees the delivery of education and enforcement activities to encourage compliance with legislation covering parking, animal management and local laws functions.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced leader to stabilise and coach a high-performing team, uplift operational performance, and bring a balanced leadership approach—combining strategic oversight with hands-on support to deliver quality services for the community.

Working within the City Infrastructure Directorate, the Unit Manager Compliance Operations will bring strong people leadership and operational expertise to refine and strengthen team capability.

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

- Demonstrable experience in the WHS field and relevant tertiary qualification
- Extensive experience in coaching and mentoring team members and stakeholder across an organisation in all aspects of WHS
- Demonstrated experience in implementing a sustainable business partnering and case management model across a business
- Possess a continuous improvement mindset
- Exposure and ability to support the delivery of coherent, consistent and effective WHS services, including data analysis and preparation of management reporting

**Key responsibilities**:

- Lead and support a team of enforcement officers, coaching and developing leadership capability at all levels.
- Provide strong operational oversight of parking, local laws and animal management services, ensuring risks are managed and outcomes achieved.
- Ensure compliance with relevant legislative requirements so that intended outcomes of the legislation are achieved.
- Ensure efficient service delivery, leveraging both in-house teams and external providers.
- Foster a positive, performance-driven culture within the Compliance Operations Unit.

**Skills and experience required to perform this role**:

- Tertiary qualifications in management or a related field and/or diverse experience leading compliance teams or similar service areas, with an ability to coach staff and manage performance constructively.
- Ability to lead both operational and strategic functions, with a focus on uplifting team capability and delivering high service standards.
- Customer-focused, adaptable, and able to drive innovation and continuous improvement.
- Current Driver’s Licence valid in Victoria.

**What the role can offer**:

- The opportunity to work alongside a professional and supportive leadership team.
- Extensive opportunities for training and career development.
- Salary sacrifice options and wellness programs.
- A real sense of work-life balance.

**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, Monday 2 June 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 in