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Employment Status: 12-month contract commencing 20 January 2025 – 20 January 2026 (part time)
Days & Hours of Work: 2 days totalling 15.2 hours per week (can also be split over 3 days)
Competitive Salary: Band 5 - $80,620 - $94,064 pro rata (dependent on experience) + 11.5% superannuation
Location: Corporate Centre in Sandringham, with the flexibility to work from home

About Us:

We are a passionate organisation, connected in our shared goal to be ‘sector leading’ in all that we do for the community and each other. Home to over 100,000 residents, Bayside City Council's enduring purpose is building extraordinary places, thriving communities, and better futures.

Bayside Council is an equal-opportunity employer committed to providing an accessible and safe working environment that embraces and values child safety, diversity, and inclusion. Our organisational strategy is made up of three priorities and we consider these in everything we do: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Customer Experience and Results Matter.

We want everyone to be as proud of what we are achieving – and excited about our future – as we are, and we are committed to working together to achieve this.

About the Role:

We are searching for a talented communications professional to help spread the word on Bayside’s fabulous library programs. This role is a fixed term, part time position 12-month contract commencing 20 January 2025 – 20 January 2026.

This 0.4 part time role can be done over 2 days or 3 part days to fit your life.

Role Responsibilities:

Reporting into the External Communications and Media Coordinator, the role will tap into your passion for crafting engaging content, talent for managing stakeholders and genuine enthusiasm for the literacy and creative sector.

Libraries at Bayside are about so much more than books (naturally these are brilliant too). Our libraries are hubs for learning, social connection, entertainment, community activities and much more.

With support you will develop and implement marketing, communications and audience engagement strategies, working across print, social, digital, video and other media.

Key Selection Criteria:

To be successful in this role, you will bring the following skills and competencies:

• Ability to build strong relationships with key stakeholders and manage multiple priorities autonomously.
• Ability to research and develop content for multiple channels including social media, online and print publications.
• Desire to contribute to a high performing communications team that are passionate about their day to day.
• Interest in the literary and creative sector and local government.
• Tertiary qualifications and/ or demonstrated skills/experience in developing and implementing public relations, marketing, communications strategies and campaigns.

Mandatory pre-employment requirements:

• Be willing to undergo and complete a satisfactory criminal history check
• Provide or obtain an employment-based Working with Children Check 

What we can offer you in return: 

• A work life/balance through flexible and hybrid working arrangements
• Generous leave provisions, including accrued time off, parental leave, three days of wellbeing leave per year, cultural and ceremonial leave, gender affirmation leave, plus the ability to purchase up to four weeks additional leave per year
• Dedicated Staff Wellbeing programs, events and gym membership discounts
• Learning and development opportunities so our people can grow and thrive
• A Parkland surrounded office that is only short 500m stroll to the beach
• Free onsite staff parking plus hybrid vehicles that employees can book for work related travel
• A Green Money program, that rewards our staff for taking simple everyday steps to a more substantiable and climate aware living

Take the next step in your career and join our high performing and collaborative Communications team.

How to apply:

1. To discover more about the role and responsibilities review the Position Description 
2. Provide a cover letter responding to the Key Selection Criteria and what has motivated you to apply for this role
3. Click Apply to submit your application.
4. If you require reasonable adjustment at any point throughout the recruitment process, then please do let us know by contacting the listed Hiring Manager

Applications close: Sunday 1 December, 11:55pm

If you would like to learn more about this opportunity or have any questions, please contact Sally Morgan, External Communications & Media Coordinatoron 0418 583 721 or via email smorgan@bayside.vic.gov.au

Bayside City Council prides itself on its values of Respect Each Other, Own It, Work Together and Find Better Ways.

Bayside City Council proudly acknowledges the Bunurong People of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of this land, and we pay our respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging as well as all Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander community members with us today.

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to an equitable, diverse and socially inclusive work environment. We actively encourage applicants with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage, people living with disability, LGBTIQA+ people and people from culturally diverse backgrounds to apply for this opportunity.