Municipal Laws Officer

Permanent full time position
- Monthly Rostered Day Off (RDO)
- Professional learning and development opportunities
- Generous leave entitlements
- Health and wellbeing initiatives including Fitness Passport

Banyule City Council is hiring a **Municipal Laws Officer **to play a key role in Municipal Laws and Public Assets team.

The Planning, Building & Laws department comprises of Development Planning, BPi and Municipal Laws & Public Assets. Each team within the department manages an area of approvals, registration and statutory compliance. The Department takes a customer service driven approach to managing the development of the city, protection of amenity and support to residents, businesses and visitors.

**About the role**:

- Be part of a multi-discipline team responsible for the day-to-day administration and implementation of relevant legislation in Local Laws, amenity control and where appropriate for the betterment of the Banyule community
- Provide advice and assistance to members of the community and general public in regard to policies, permit requests and legislation governing the functions of the Municipal Laws unit
- Enforce the provisions of the Domestic Animal Act, Environmental Prevention Act and Council’s General Local Law
- Identify and establish relationships with key stakeholders both internal departments and external agencies

**Skills, experience and certificates**:

- Post-secondary training to Certificate IV in Municipal Law Enforcement, or equivalent and / or relevant experience in a Municipal Laws environment
- Prior experience working in an enforcement / compliance environment or similar with a demonstrated capacity to undertake investigations, compliance inspections and general enforcement work both reactively and proactively
- Demonstrated time management skills, including the ability to plan and organise own workload.
- Demonstrated commitment to the principals and practices of quality customer service including previous experience in effectively dealing with conflict and stressful situations
- Demonstrated high level interpersonal skills including previous experience in working as part of a team, on a daily basis
- Proven examples demonstrating strong aptitude in animal handling
- Examples of proven willingness to work with residents to achieve voluntary compliance where possible

**Mandatory Pre-employment screenings**:

- COVID 19 vaccination certificate
- Police check
- Working with Children's check
- Victorian Driver's License

**How to apply**:
For more information about this position please access a copy of the position description via the link below to discuss your suitability, we encourage you to contact **Angela O'Brien (Municipal Laws Team Leader) on 9490 4404 or Justine Busuttil (Municipal Laws and Public Assets Coordinator) on 9490 4273 **for a confidential conversation.

**_Applications close: Wednesday19th July at 11.45PM
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**Our Culture**:Our Staff choose to align their career with Banyule by living the values of Respect, Integrity, Responsibility, Initiative and Inclusion, strong learning and development culture and the positive way we work in partnership with the community.

**Diversity Statement**:Our community is made up of diverse, cultures, beliefs, abilities, bodies, sexualities, ages and genders. We are committed to access, equity, participation and rights for everyone: principles that empower, foster harmony and increase the well-being of an inclusive community.