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Band 8 - Salary Range $127,546 to $142,788 per annum + 12% Super + ADO
(Rate of pay and super effective 1 July 2025)
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
City Events and Arts is a key service unit in the City Life Directorate. Reporting to the Manager Healthy Connected Communities, the Coordinator City Events and Arts leads a team of Event Officers and a Senior Arts Officer to deliver Melton City Council's annual calendar of events, including major events such as Djerrwarrh Festival and Lakeside Alive. The team also supports community groups to plan and deliver their own events to foster community participation and engagement.
Key Responsibilities
* Develop and deliver Council's major events program and annual events calendar.
* Lead and manage the City Events and Arts Team through ongoing advice, support and direction to ensure the delivery of high-quality arts and events programs.
* Manage risk, including occupational health and safety responsibilities, ensuring event compliance and adherence to relevant legislation and policies.
* Build community capacity to support community-managed events and broker partnerships with key stakeholders to value-add to the City's event delivery.
To view the Position Description, click here.
About you
To be successful in this role you will have the following:
* Tertiary qualifications relevant to the role, such as event and/or project management, Business/Marketing (or related discipline) further formal qualifications in the field of expertise or in management or lesser qualifications with extensive and diverse experience, or intensive specialist experience in related industry and/or local government experience.
* Demonstrated experience in leadership roles with a proven ability to work collaboratively, lead, and drive change.
* Demonstrated skills and experience in stakeholder engagement and partnership brokerage.
* Experience working in a local government and community capacity building would be an advantage.
* Must hold or be able to obtain an Employee Working with Children Check.
* A current valid driver's licence is essential.
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
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
* 16 weeks Paid Parental Leave (Super is paid during parental leave)
* 3 weeks Paid Secondary Carer Leave
* Family Room available including Breastfeeding Facilities - Australian Breastfeeding Association
* Subsidised Uniforms
How To Apply
If you require further information about the position, please contact Susie Prestney, Manager Libraries & Learning on 0424 178 743.
Applicationsmust 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 public health orders applicable to local government.
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 respondingto child abuse is at the centre of our everyday thinking and service delivery.
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