Aboriginal Community Partnerships Coordinator

**Based in Balcatta, a great place to work with amazing benefits & work life balance**:

- ** Permanent position with salary of $98,581 plus 11.5% Super**

**This position relates to Section 51 of the West Australian Equal Employment Opportunity Act 1984, where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply.**

Working for Water Corporation means you'll be part of an essential workforce on a very important mission - to secure Western Australia’s most precious resource in the face of climate change.

You'll get to work alongside innovators, creators, thinkers, and doers to make a meaningful difference to lives all over WA.

Plus, you'll get the opportunity to carve a career path as diverse as the different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives of our 3000+ people. Where will water take you? The possibilities are endless.

We offer a range of great employee benefits such as an on-site gym, annual leave loading, and discounted private health insurance, just to name a few. We also provide flexible working options, including a 9-day fortnight, flexi start and finish times, working from home days, and more.

**About the role**

We have a permanent opportunity for an experienced Community Partnerships Coordinator based in our Balcatta office. In this newly created role you will bring your energy and creativity to help shape and manage community partnerships, events and activities which support our business strategy and Reconciliation Action Plan.

Reporting to the Community Partnerships and Education Lead and working alongside a team of community partnerships, events specialists, and educators you will be helping Water Corporation build community trust, raise awareness of the preciousness of water, connect communities with their local water stories and environment; amplifying the wisdom, knowledge and value that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people bring to our community.

**What the role will involve**:

- Identifying, managing, and leveraging impactful community partnerships which align to our Corporate Strategy and RAP, to derive mutually beneficial value, and deliver on key outcomes for Water Corporation, partners. and community
- Developing and implementing partnership agreements, leveraging plans and evaluation reports, to maximise our investment and partners’ influence to engage our customers and communities
- Participating in broader team activities to deliver our community investment program which includes: project management of one off community events, activations and water knowledge activities
- Forming effective working relationships with partners, local community members, colleagues, across the business and stakeholders across the state to deliver effective community impact initiatives that connect with key communities throughout WA
- Crafting stories and identifying storytelling opportunities which bring our community partnerships, events and activations to life by working with colleagues across marketing channels to leverage our partnerships and events

**Key skills and experience**:

- Degree qualification in communications, public relations, event management, marketing or a related discipline

Or
- Considerable experience in a similar role in a medium to large multi-disciplined organisation
- Knowledge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and cultures
- Skilled and experienced in developing and maintaining relationships with Aboriginal organisations and delivering programs for mutual benefit which support Reconciliation Action Plans
- Skilled in end-to-end project and /or event management
- Considerable experience in developing and implementing sponsorship and /or community partnership leveraging strategies
- High level of personal organisation
- Considerable experience in community relations
- Highly developed and proven interpersonal and collaboration skills
- Excellent written skills and storytelling capability
- A valid Working with Children Check and clean WA driver’s license will be required
- Occasional out of hours work and weekend work will be required as part of this role

If you are interested in the above opportunity, please submit a covering letter and resume that best demonstrates your skills and experience as well as your ability to meet the requirements of the role.

As part of the recruitment process you may be required to complete pre-employment screening which may include a medical, qualification check, police clearance and Australian working rights check.

**Applications close Tuesday 19th November 2024**

**Our commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace**:
Diversity and inclusion are more than words. They guide us on building a thriving workforce that reflects the diversity of our customers and our community.

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