• Full Time Permanent Position
• Salary Range $71,280 - $82,081 per annum + 10% Super + RDO

About Melton City Council

The City of Melton is a place where everyone belongs. Our community is vibrant and diverse and one of the fastest developing in Australia. Our organisation strives to provide our community with state of the art, excellent amenity, health and wellbeing and to support our community to be a lifelong learning city. We invest in innovation and our people’s professional and personal development. We offer generous leave and flexibility that best suits your lifestyle and a collaborative and inclusive culture. You’ll be able to work close to home and have new cafes and shops opening every day amongst the heritage buildings and open green spaces of one of Melbourne’s fastest growing municipalities.

The Opportunity

The Community Capacity team is seeking a Diversity & Intercultural Project Officer to develop and deliver collaborative community development and capacity building initiatives, in alignment with relevant Council strategies. The successful candidate will work collaboratively to plan, implement and evaluate a range of activities that respond to the self-identified needs of diverse communities.

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate opportunities to enable cultural expression, transmission, recognition and celebration between generations and groups
• Support relevant social research and community engagement processes to increase understanding of community needs, challenges and aspirations
• Develop and maintain partnerships with internal and external stakeholders to identify and respond to emerging trends and strengthen the culturally specific service response in Melton
• Facilitate connections to, and awareness of, the community services sector amongst culturally and linguistically diverse communities.

About you

To be successful in this role you must have:

• Sound knowledge of engaging respectfully and empathetically with members of identified communities to develop and deliver collaborative community development and capacity building initiatives, in alignment with relevant Council strategies
• Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills, the capacity to strengthen the cohort-specific service response in Melton; facilitate connections to, and awareness of, the community services sector amongst diverse communities.
• Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with and between relevant communities, service providers, educational institutions and other relevant bodies to facilitate opportunities to enable expression, transmission, recognition and celebration between generations and diverse groups.
• Passionate about working collaboratively to plan, implement and evaluate a range of activities that respond to the self-identified needs of diverse communities
• A relevant tertiary qualification is desirable, with proven delivery of community development projects is essential.

Culture and Values

Our vision for our community is to be: “a thriving community where everyone belongs” 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:

• 19 Day Month
• Flexible Working Hours
• Extensive Career Development & Leadership Programs
• 16 weeks Paid Parental Leave
• 3 weeks Paid Secondary Carer Leave
• Family Room available including Breastfeeding Facilities (Breastfeeding Friendly Workplace accredited)
• Wellbeing initiatives
• Social Club Activities
• Subsidised Uniforms

To read more about our benefits visit meltoncity-staff-benefits.applynow.net.au.

How to Apply

If you require further information about the position, please contact Essan Dileri, Team Leader Diversity and Intercultural Development on 9747 7206.

To view Position Description and to apply, click Apply Now.

To be eligible for employment at Melton City Council you must be an Australian citizen, permanent resident of Australia or be legally entitled to work in Australia.

At Melton City Council we care for our people, we’re committed to the professional growth of our employees and support balance and flexibility. If you want to work with talented, passionate people and build a thriving and vibrant community, we encourage you to apply. We strongly encourage job applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disabilities, LGBTIQ and people from culturally diverse backgrounds.

Melton City Council is committed to being a Child Safe organisation.