Grant Attraction

Full Time Permanent Position

Band 8 - Salary Range $123,831 to $138,629 per annum + 11.5% Super + ADO

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

Play a specialist leadership role in attracting grant funding for one of the fastest growing local government areas in Australia. In this role you will lead the strategic grant attraction program to secure funding for Council priorities and build and maintain positive relationships with external funding bodies. 

Reporting to the Manager Advocacy and Government Relations you will make a positive difference to the community by identifying external funding opportunities available to Council and coordinating high quality funding submissions that maximise investment success.
You will also establish systems and processes for monitoring grant conditions, reporting, financial and acquittal requirements. 

This new position will create the environment for investment success and build capacity across the organisation for best practice grant attraction and management. 

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with representatives from State and Federal government departments to favourably position investment success and project delivery. 
• Strong writing and interpersonal skills with ability to influence stakeholders. 
• Ability to coordinate small cross functional teams to achieve outcomes and build capacity within teams.
• Demonstrated experience in developing implementing project plans.
• High level administrative skills to effectively centralise and manage information, correspondence and reporting.

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About you

To be successful in this role you will have the following:

• Tertiary qualifications in business or a similar discipline with extensive and diverse management experience or intensive specialist experience.
• Demonstrated experience in the coordination and preparation of external funding applications and investment success.  
• Ability to engage with diverse stakeholders and collaboratively plan and deliver project outcomes within set timelines.
• Strong business writing skills for the preparation of grant applications, report writing, strong presentation skills 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.

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 (Melton City Council | Australian Breastfeeding Association)
• Wellbeing initiatives
• Subsidised Uniforms

How To Apply

For further information about the position, please contact Sean McManus, Manager Advocacy and Government Relations on 9747 5414.

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

To be eligible for employment at Melton City Council you must be legally entitled to work in Australia.

All successful applicants will need to undertake pre-employment requirements including but not limited to a satisfactory criminal history record check. Successful applicants must be able to comply with any COVID-19 Public Health Orders applicable to Local Government employees.

We strongly encourage job applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disabilities, LGBTIQA+ and people from culturally diverse backgrounds. If selected for an interview and you require any additional support or adjustments regarding interview arrangements, please advise the contact listed above in advance.

Melton City Council is committed to being a child safe organisation and has Zero tolerance for child abuse. Melton City Council is committed to creating and maintaining a child safe organisation where protecting children and preventing and responding to child abuse is at the centre of our everyday thinking and service delivery.

 Applications close 11:59pm Thursday 14 November 2024

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