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• Employment Status: Part time, fixed term to 30 June 2025
• Days & Hours of Work: 3 days (days flexible) totalling 22.8 hours per week
• Competitive Salary: Band 5 - $80,620.19 pro rata. + 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’ve got a new part-time and flexible job opportunity for a Community Engagement Support Officer who wants to help shape the future of Bayside.

You’ll be a key contact for our community and colleagues across the organisation throughout the development of the major strategic plans of Bayside's next Council, which will be elected in October. These plans are the Council Plan, Financial Plan, Asset Plan and Municipal Health and Wellbeing Plan.

You will be responsible for:

• Delivering communications plans to keep our community informed.
• Creating engaging and accessible online and print content.
• Supporting community engagement activities and our community panel.
• Assisting internal collaboration on strategic plans.

If you have exceptional interpersonal and organisational skills and thrive in a collaborative work environment, we want to hear from you.

Key Selection Criteria:

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

• Exceptional communications skills in-person, in print and online.
• A customer-centric approach to relationships.
• Initiative, attention to detail and ability to prioritise.

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.

If you are ready to be part of our incredible organisation, and you think this role is the right fit for you, then we look forward to finding out more about you and what you would bring to this role.

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 21 July, 11:55pm

If you would like to learn more about this opportunity or have any question, please contact Jo Hyland, Acting Community Engagement Coordinator on 03 9599 4314 or via email jhyland@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.