Community Activation and Learning Officer

**Full Time Permanent Position**

**Salary Range $71,280 to $82,080 per annum + 10.5% Super + RDO**

**About Melton City Council**

The City of Melton is a community where everyone belongs. Ours is a vibrant and diverse municipality—one of the fastest developing in Australia. Our organisation strives to provide our community with state-of-the-art amenity and facilities, engaging health and wellbeing options, and support to become active members of our Lifelong Learning City.

We invest in innovation, offering professional and personal development, and generous leave and flexibility to staff, while also fostering a collaborative and inclusive culture. You’ll be able to work close to home in a dynamic setting featuring cafes and retail options set amongst heritage buildings and open green spaces.

**The Opportunity**

**Key Responsibilities**
- Working collaboratively with stakeholders and community to plan, implement, and evaluate a suite of programs and activities that respond to the identified needs of the local community and activate community facilities.
- Activate community through facilitation of community initiated and driven opportunities for residents to develop responses and solutions to locally important needs and issues.
- Support the development and implementation of a range of community engagement processes to identify local themes, and build capacity of the broader Melton community
- Build effective relationships to support hirers of the community facility and promote Council’s community facilities and the programs, services and activities delivered from those facilities.
- Recruit and provide direction and support to contract tutors, casual staff, volunteers, and students working within Council’s community facilities.
- Actively participate in strategic partnerships, networks, and stakeholder relationships to improve community outcomes.
- Prepare and implement community activities and communication strategies.

**About you**

We are seeking applicants with a commitment to working collaboratively with the community, able to work effectively within a Local Government context, with a broad range of community stakeholders. Demonstrating the capacity to develop, manage and complete strategically planned community-based programs that are delivered within the relevant timelines, that will energise and activate the community.

**_ To be successful in this role you will have the following:_**
- Community engagement, community development, and management of community facilities.
- Excellent communication skills; including the ability to adapt communications to identified need
- Knowledge in computer software, including Microsoft Office Applications and Internet technology.
- Current valid Victorian driver’s licence.

**Culture and Values**

Our vision for our community is to be: "A vibrant, safe and liveable city accessible to all" and that means there’s a place here for you too. Our organisational values represent us as an established growth Council and the values are reflected in everything we do; our decision-making, our actions and our service provision to the community. Council has a diverse and vibrant organisation and we’d love to have you join us to help shape a city for the future.

We are Vibrant MELTON. Our values are:

- Motivate
- Empower
- Lead
- Trust
- Open
- Nurture

**Benefits**

There are a number of great reasons why our people love working at Melton City Council:

- 19 Day Month
- Flexible Working Hours
- Extensive Career Development & Leadership Programs
- 16 weeks Paid Parental Leave
- 3 weeks Paid Secondary Carer Leave
- Family Room available including Breastfeeding Facilities (Breastfeeding Friendly Workplace accredited)
- Wellbeing initiatives
- Subsidised Uniforms

**How To Apply**

If you require further information about the position, please contact Lyn Harding, Team Leader Community Activation and Learning Centre’s on 0400 189 043.

To view the Position Description, click here.

Applications **must** include a Resume and address the Key Selection Criteria outlining your suitability to the role.

We encourage you to use the STAR approach when writing your responses to the selection criteria.
- Situation (Task) - provide a brief outline of the situation or task?_
- Action - what did you do in response to the situation or task?_
- Result - what was the result of your action?_

To address the Key Selection Criteria you will need to write short statements explaining how you meet the criteria, or how you demonstrate the capability. We encourage you to keep your responses concise.
- Applicants will need to undertake pre-employment requirements, dependent on the position._
- Successful applicants must comply with COVID-19 Public Health Orders applicable to Local Government employees and Council’s COVID-19 vaccination policy which require employees to provide documentary evidence of their vaccination status before attending the workplace._

Applications close 5.00