Advocacy and Government Relations Officer

**Full Time Permanent Position**

**Band 6 - Salary Range $97,926 to $106,637 per annum + 12% Super + ADO**

**(Rate of pay and super effective 1 July 2025)**

**Salary offered will depend on level of skills and experience.**

**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**

You will be part of the Advocacy and Government Relations team that aims to maximise investment for the City of Melton community through evidence-based advocacy and meaningful stakeholder and government relations that is impactful, high profile and highly regarded. Reporting to the Manager Advocacy and Government Relations you will help drive an improved government relations program for one of the fastest growing local government areas in Australia.

This position supports Council’s government relations program, including State and Federal Government stakeholders, to strengthen and embed relationships, creating an environment for improved services, partnerships, investment, resolution of local issues and advancement of advocacy priorities. You will also support the review and development of Council’s advocacy priorities that will lead to government investment.

**Key Responsibilities**
- High level administrative skills to effectively centralise and manage information, correspondence and reporting.
- Support the review and development of Council’s advocacy strategies and campaigns and delivery of objectives, priorities and actions that supports the Executive, Mayor and Councillors advance key advocacy issues.
- Coordinate and prepare correspondence, briefings notes, fact sheets, publications, presentations, submissions, online content and other materials to support Mayor, CEO and Senior Leaders.
- Support delivery of Council’s government relations program including developing targeted engagement plan, scheduling meetings, preparing briefing materials, coordinating follow up actions and maintain stakeholder/actions register.

To view the **Position Description**, click **here**.

**About you**

**_ To be successful in this role you will have the following:_**
- Tertiary qualifications in policy development, political science, international relations, communications or other related field with experience, or a lesser formal qualification with substantial experience.
- Relevant experience in advocacy, government relations and/or communications, policy development, and grant attraction.
- Ability to engage with diverse stakeholders at all levels with credibility and tact and foster collaboration to drive outcomes.
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills, and an ability to distil large amounts of complex information for a variety of internal and external audiences and ability to build and maintain relationships.
- Demonstrated experience and capability to manage administrative and planning aspects of projects along with strong project management skills.
- 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:
Staff Benefits | Melton City Council
- 13 ADO's (Accrued Day Off) per year
- 5 weeks annual leave
- Flexible Working Hours
- Extensive Career Development & Leadership Programs
- 16 weeks Paid Parental Leave **(Super is paid during parental leave)**:

- 3 weeks Paid Secondary Carer Leave
- Family Room available including Breastfeeding Facilities - Australian Breastfeeding Association
- Wellbeing initiatives
- Subsidised Uniforms

**How To Apply**

If you require further information about the position, please contact **Sean McManu**s, Manager Advocacy and Government Relations on **9747 5414.**

Applications must include a Resume and address the Key Selection Criteria outlining your suitability to the rol