Communications Officer

• Permanent Full Time
• $99,136 pa + 12% super + leave loading (Level 5)
• 9 day fortnight
• 72.5 hour fortnight
• Location: North Lakes

Join City of Moreton Bay as a Communications Officer, and help shape and enhance our communities for today and tomorrow.

Leading a team of three, you'll play a key role in delivering strategic, engaging communications across libraries, galleries, museums, heritage, and cultural activation. You will also:

• Develop and implement promotional strategies in partnership with Cultural Services branches
• Create and edit engaging content for print, digital, and social media platform
• Manage departmental websites and social media accounts, including monitoring and reporting
• Lead and support the communications team, ensuring quality and consistency
• Research and report on communication trends to inform strategy and innovation

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About you

You'll bring valuable communications experience from within the cultural sector, ideally gained through work in libraries, galleries, heritage, museums, or performing arts. Skilled across both print and digital channels, your writing will be accurate, creative, and tailored to suit each platform and audience.

As a confident communicator, you'll build quality relationships with internal and external stakeholders and support senior leaders by understanding Cultural Services operations to help promote their work.

You'll also bring:

• Strong time management skills, with the ability to lead a team and juggle competing priorities
• The ability to work quickly under pressure while contributing to long-term strategic planning
• Sound knowledge of communication practices within a corporate cultural services context

Why City of Moreton Bay?

What you do with your life matters. It's the same with your career.

We're the third-largest council in Australia and one of the fastest-growing areas. As Australia's newest city, we're building something that's never been done before: a new kind of city, inspired and empowered by a new kind of council.

This is your opportunity to develop skills and experience in a truly unique place, at a truly unique point in time.

At City of Moreton Bay, we're focused on the vital work we do today. But we're also focused on the future. On what can be – for our city, our Council and your career.

Here's what you'll love about a career with us:

• See it. To build a city of the future, first, you have to see it. The polycentric city we're building will bring greater prosperity, sustainability and affordability to our city. This is your chance to contribute to something that's never been done before.
• Shape it. You'll get hands-on in a rewarding career, serving and strengthening our communities for today and tomorrow. Our work is diverse, interesting and it matters – and it's yours to shape and own.
• Live it. Contribute to the city you and your family want to live in and enjoy the lifestyle you deserve. And if you don't live here, you'll still find pride and connection in so many ways with our successful, resilient team.

You'll also enjoy a range of other benefits:

• Find a better work-life balance with a nine-day fortnight.
• Advance your skills and career through our Study, Training And Research Scheme (STARS).
• Make your pay go further with salary packaging options on novated leases, superannuation payments, smartphones and devices.
• Prioritise your health and wellbeing with discounted health insurance, free annual flu vaccinations and our Fitness Passport Program.
• Get support when you and your family need it most with our 24/7 confidential counselling service, leader support hotline and Mates in Construction program.

Ready for a career that matters?

Join City of Moreton Bay, and help shape our city of the future.

Click on the 'Apply Now' button below to complete your online application. Please upload a current resume that demonstrates how you meet the requirements for this role.  You will also have the option to add a cover letter should you wish.

As part of the recruitment process, applicants will be required to undergo a National Criminal History Check.

To obtain further details please contact our Careers team at 

City of Moreton Bay extends across the traditional lands of the Jinibara, Kabi Kabi, and Turrbal peoples, and we acknowledge and pay respects to our Traditional Custodians. We believe diversity of thought, background and experience creates better outcomes for our people and communities, and we strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people of all ages, genders, abilities and cultural backgrounds.

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Your Future City.

See it. Shape it. Live It.

*Applications close 11:55pm Sunday, 9 November 2025.