Recreation Projects Coordinator

**Employment Status**: Permanent, full time
**Days & Hours of Work**:Monday to Friday totalling 38 hours per week
**Competitive Salary**:Band 8 - $126,017 p.a. + 11% superannuation
**Location**:Corporate Centre in Sandringham, with the flexibility to work from home

**About Us**:
We are a passionate organisation, connected in our shared goal to be ‘sector leading’ in all that we do for the community and each other. Home to over 100,000 residents, Bayside City Council's enduring purpose is building extraordinary places, thriving communities, and better futures.

Bayside Council is an equal-opportunity employer committed to providing an accessible and safe working environment that embraces and values child safety, diversity, and inclusion. Our organisational strategy is made up of three priorities and we consider these in everything we do**:Diversity, Equity & Inclusion**, **Customer Experience** and **Results Matter**.

We want everyone to be as proud of what we are achieving - and excited about our future - as we are, and we are committed to working together to achieve this.

**About the Role**:
The key purpose of the Recreation Projects Coordinator role is to provide leadership to support the delivery and effective administration of recreation capital works projects and to build positive collaborative relationships with sport and recreation organisations. Reporting to the Manager Open Space and Recreation and supervising one Recreation Projects Officer, the position acts as Project Sponsor for the majority of recreation projects delivered by Council's Project Services team, and occasionally taking on the role of project manager for more minor capital works projects.

You will be responsible for:

- Actively support the planning and delivery of Council’s capital works program in the Department.
- Ensuring a responsive, streamlined and transparent process for recreation capital projects on Council owned/managed land.
- Encouraging community and stakeholder participation throughout all stages of a project and mitigating stakeholder risks.
- Ensuring the accurate reporting of recreation based projects, including capital works reporting in PPM. Insert expected performance outcomes.
- Ensuring effective contractor management through the planning and delivery of projects.

**Key Selection Criteria**:
To be successful in this role, you will bring the following skills and competencies:

- Tertiary qualification in recreation/leisure/sport, project management or similar field.
- Demonstrated project management skills relating to the planning and delivery of capital works projects.
- Proven experience in the planning and delivery of recreation services and/or project management.
- Demonstrated experience building and developing the capacity of community groups and volunteers through the delivery of capital works infrastructure.
- Experience supervising and supporting staff and external contractors.

**Mandatory pre-employment requirements**:

- Be willing to undergo and complete a satisfactory criminal history check
- Provide or obtain an employment-based Working with Children check
- Current Victorian Driver’s licence

**What we can offer you in return**:

- A work life/balance through flexible and hybrid working arrangements.
- Generous leave provisions, including accrued time off, parental leave, three days of wellbeing leave per year, cultural and ceremonial leave, gender affirmation leave, plus the ability to purchase up to four weeks additional leave per year.
- Dedicated Staff Wellbeing programs, events and gym membership discounts.
- Learning and development opportunities so our people can grow and thrive.
- A Parkland surrounded office that is only short 500m stroll to the beach.
- Free onsite staff parking plus hybrid vehicles that employees can book for work related travel.
- A Green Money program, that rewards our staff for taking simple everyday steps to a more substantiable and climate aware living.

If you are ready to be part of our incredible organisation, and you think this role is the right fit for you, then we look forward to finding out more about you and what you would bring to this role.

**How to apply**:

- To discover more about the role and responsibilities review the Position Description
- If you require reasonable adjustment at any point throughout the recruitment process, then please do let us know by contacting the listed Hiring Manager

**Applications close**: Tuesday 19 March, 11:55pm
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