Communications and Marketing Specialist

**Based at our Coburg offices with hybrid work arrangements available**#LI-Hybrid**:

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

- **Monthly RDO**:

- **7 months from 1 September 2025 to 4 April 2026**:

- **Salary: $99k - $108k + Super**:

- **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 communications star to join the Communications team. As a high-profile metropolitan council in Melbourne, delivering more than 150 services for the community, we’re seeking a strategic-thinking team-player to deliver messages to our diverse communities using a wide range of channels and methods.

This is a busy role with a different focus every day, working as a trusted partner on projects across the organisation. You will be working with teams from right across the organisation to determine the best messaging and strategies to reach the different audiences. And this is while working in a fun and supportive team of communications professionals working in partnership with the wider organisation to achieve great outcomes for our community.

This exciting opportunity also offers training and the chance to progress and build your career prospects.

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

- Tertiary qualification in communications, journalism or a related discipline or a lesser qualification with substantial relevant experience in the field of communications.
- Experience in leading and developing communications plans for a wide range of small and large campaigns, using strategy and creativity to reach a variety of audiences in an efficient and cost-effective way.
- Ability to identify critical and sensitive issues and to respond appropriately with sound judgement.
- Ability to transform technical information and jargon into creative communications that audiences engage with and respond to in a positive way.
- Experience coaching and training staff in the use of communication and engagement planning, tools and practices.
- Experience managing relationships with the media, responding to enquiries, preparing media releases and proactive media pitches.

**What the role can offer**:

- Monthly RDO
- 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

**For further information about this position please contact Emma Hastings, Media and Communications Coordinator, on 0407 556 101.**

**Applications close: 11:30pm, Tuesday 26 August 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 tr