Employee Communications Officer

**Permanent part-time role - 4 days per week - 0.8FTE (based on 35 hours per week)**:

- **Based at our Coburg offices with hybrid working arrangements available**:

- **Salary - $84K to $95K + super (pro rata)**:

- **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**:
Merri-bek City Council is looking for a talented employee communications star to join the Communications team.

In this role, you will develop internal communications plans and content to promote a wide range of information to Council staff. You will be writing for internal newsletters, sourcing stories from across the organisation to showcase the great work that our staff carry out for the community, as well as content for the staff intranet and other internal communications channels. You will also manage the annual report.

We are looking for a team player who can translate complex information into engaging, easy-to-understand content for a range of contemporary and engaging internal communication channels and content. This is a fast-paced role with a different focus every day, working in a fun and supportive team of communications professionals.

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

- Tertiary qualification in communications, journalism or a related discipline and/or a lesser qualification with relevant experience in the field of communications.
- Experience in a communications role in a large organisation.
- Extensive experience writing, editing and proofing complex documents.
- Highly developed written and verbal communications skills.
- Ability to set, manage and deliver on tight production timelines.
- A demonstrated ability to build relationships and gain trust.

**What the role can offer**:

- Extensive opportunities for training & career development
- Salary sacrifice options
- A real sense of work-life balance & flexible work options
- Employer-supported study assistance schemes
- Wellness programs

**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, Tuesday 20 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.