Mayoral Liaison Officer

**Mayoral Liaison Officer**:
**Job no**: 497462

**Work type**: Permanent Full Time

**Classification**: Band 7 ($98,102 - $108,813 pa)

**Categories**: Administration & Support, Project Management, Marketing & Communication

**Create our future together at the City of Greater Geelong**
At City of Greater Geelong, we are committed to working together for a thriving community. We do this by delivering over 130 services to our rapidly growing population and working hard to protect and improve what it is that makes Greater Geelong on Wadawurrung country such a great place to live, work and study.

We’re going through an exciting period of change that will help us serve our community better. From digital modernisation to the contemporary, sustainable office we built in Central Geelong, now more than ever is a great time to join our team at the City of Greater Geelong.

Our Community is made up of diverse people from all walks of life, and it’s important to us that our workforce represents and celebrates this strength.

We encourage great people from all backgrounds to join us. We encourage authenticity, because inclusion makes us stronger.

If you’re excited about working together to create a Clever and Creative Greater Geelong, and joining a workplace where all people can thrive, then hit **apply** - we’d love to meet you

**About the role**
Working directly with the Mayor and Deputy Mayor, this role will be responsible for facilitating good communication between the Mayor, Deputy Mayor and the City. This role focuses on providing strategic advice, support and guidance to the Mayor and Deputy Mayor across a range of civic and governance matters to ensure that they can effectively fulfil their civic duties. It is expected to possess and display strong leadership skills and stakeholder management to support the Manager of Mayor & Councillor Support, Mayor and Councillors.

Key responsibilities include:

- Provide professional support and concise information to the Mayor whilst exercising the utmost discretion and maintaining confidentiality where appropriate.
- Research a range of issues, develop recommendations and prepare presentations for the Mayor & Deputy Mayor as required.
- Ensure a seamless experience for the Mayor in the performance of their responsibilities by effectively co-ordinating all Mayoral activities, information flows and decision-making.
- Anticipate the needs of the Mayor and provide tactical and strategic advice on emerging issues, areas of risk and opportunities for improvement.
- Work closely with the Corporate Affairs Team to ensure the appropriate, accurate and timely development of public material for the Mayor such as speeches, letters and media releases.
- Provide secondary leadership to the Mayor & Councillor Support Team to assist the Manager MCSU in delivering corporate responsibilities.
- Accompany and attend mayoral and civic functions, events and presentations; and provide all relevant background and preparatory information for activities when required

**About you**
- Experience in a local government environment delivering administrative and Council support function.
- Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills and ability to obtain cooperation from management, staff, and stakeholders.
- Experience in providing quality assurance for a range of formal communications including correspondence, briefings, speeches, media releases, submissions, and reports.
- Competent with Microsoft suite of products in particular Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
- Proven experience with budgeting.
- Knowledge of local government and relevant legislation and regulations would be advantageous.
- Relevant Tertiary qualifications.

**A career with us**
With flexible working options, our people have choice in how and where they work. Our employees connect with us from across the Greater Geelong region and beyond.

Central Geelong-based City employees are based in our new Civic Precinct, Wurriki Nyal. Meaning ‘speak and talk together’ in local Wadawurrung language. Wurriki Nyal sets the benchmark for what a sustainable, inclusive and culturally safe workplace can be, including industry leading sustainability standards, a flexible and people-focused design, safe and inclusive spaces and public realm.

We’re committed to supporting better accessibility for our customers and our people. We encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments or additional support you may require during the recruitment process, as well as how this role can be flexible for you.

We offer:

- flexible work arrangements including a monthly RDO with the ability to bank RDOs
- salary sacrificing and novated lease options
- cultural and ceremonial leave
- study leave
- paid parental leave (16 weeks primary and six weeks secondary) and superannuation payments on all 52 weeks primary parental leave
- IVF, surrogate and miscarriage bereavement leave
- training and career development opportunities
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