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Working for Victoria is designed to connect workers with new opportunities that will help our community and contribute to Victoria’s ability to respond to the pandemic.
Whitehorse City Council has multiple vacancies currently open:
- Business Engagement Officer
- Community Engagement & Development Lead
- Online Events – Technical Advisor
- Digital Marketing & Communications Officer
- Marketing & Communications Officer – Local Economy
- Sports Field Maintenance
- Strategic Communications Officer
- Strategic Communications Officer – Chinese Language
Business Engagement Officer
- Help our local businesses in sourcing support services
- Full time hours on a 6 month contract
- Salary from $72,737 per annum (pro rata)
What will you deliver?
- Provide advice and support to local businesses as they navigate COVID re4lated disruptions
- Deliver updates and information to local businesses regarding Council programs and initiatives
- Provide feedback to Council regarding the issues and concerns of local businesses
- Deliver relevant advice to Council that focuses on local businesses role to help us form our Investment & Economic Development Strategy
What will you bring?
- The ability to speak a language other than English (Mandarin preferred)
- Tertiary qualifications in a field relevant to economic development
- Demonstrated experience in Business Engagement roles
- Experience in front line customer service in business support
- Highly developed project management abilities
- Proficiency in the Microsoft suite of programs
- A valid Victorian drivers license
Community Engagement & Development Lead
- Lead our Community Engagement & Development team
- Full time hours on a 6 month contract
- Salary from $87,046 per annum (pro rata)
About the role
Through your leadership, the Community Engagement & Development team will deliver practical support to both the Working4Victoria team and to the Whitehorse community as a whole. You will be managing a small team who will provide outreach and support to the local community.
What will you deliver?
- Provide support to senior managers in supporting the community to manage and recover from the impacts of COVID
- Development and implementation of effective communication strategies
- Ensure the efficient and effective delivery of Working4Victoria related projects
- Ensure open and effective communication between Council and relevant external agencies
- Support the recruitment and on-boarding of direct reports
What will you bring?
- High level experience within Community Development, Community Services and Health Promotion
- Experience leading a team in a Local Government/not for profit environment
- Outstanding ability to prioritise your work and manage your time
- Demonstrated experience of delivering community projects within specified timeframes.
- A curious and empathetic nature
Online Events – Technical Advisor
- Support Whitehorse in connecting and engaging with the community
- Full time hours on a 6 month contract
- Salary from $72,737 per annum (pro rata)
About the role
As a part of the Strategic Marketing team, you will provide technical and strategic advice that allows Council to effectively engage with the community. In developing sophisticated, reliable and accessible information regarding online events, you will play a key role in keeping our community linked through these unusual times.
You will be expected to deliver intelligence regarding licensing, platforms, intellectual property, social media, recording, ticketing and production. A self-starter, you’re not afraid to question the status quo.
What will you deliver?
- Create online events that are well targeted, accessible and appropriate for the target audience
- Develop procedures and advice to support our virtual campaigns
- Provide training and practical support to those running online events
- Improve the end-to-end customer experience
- Help to prepare innovative and effective marketing campaigns
What will you bring?
- Experience executing high quality online events for a wide range of audiences
- A high level of goal orientation
- A sound understanding and practical knowledge of various digital and social communication tools
- The ability to plan, execute and evaluate strategic marketing, media and engagement campaigns
- The capacity to balance multiple competing projects in a busy, deadline driven environment
Sports Field Maintenance
- Pit your turf maintenance skills to use
- Full time, 6 month contract; Box Hill South based
- Salary from $60,824 p/a pro rata
About the role
Operating within our Parks and Natural Environment team, you will play a key role in transitioning our sporting ovals in preparation for summer sports and activities, as well as maintaining our ovals activity spaces to our usual high standards.
What will you deliver?
- Preparation, maintenance and monitoring of sporting ovals and surrounds
- Safe operation of a variety of plant and equipment
- Quality interaction with our biggest stakeholders: the public!
- Timely and efficient scheduling of any routine maintenance works
- Monitoring any works carried out by contractors
What will you bring?
- Trade certificate or relevant experience in Turf Maintenance
- A knowledge of maintaining Irrigation Systems an advantage
- Demonstrated ability to operate a variety of turf management plant and equipment
- Experience using all required herbicides, pesticides and fungicides in a safe manner
- Experience preparing turf cricket wickets
- A valid Victorian drivers license
- To be considered for this role you must be able to pass a pre-employment medical and a National Criminal History Check.
Digital Marketing & Communications Officer
- Help our local businesses in sourcing support services
- Full time hours on a 6 month contract
- Salary from $66,015 per annum (pro rata)
About the role
You will play a key role in the promotion of our Arts and Cultural services through the design and implementation of sharp, incisive and strategic marketing and communications campaigns.
What will you deliver?
- Assist in the planning, creation and publication of social media content
- Developing new content for our website
- Write and produce EDM’s using MailChimp and other EDM systems
- Collaborate with in-house and external designers, ensuring content meets our strategic design needs
- Analysis on sales, engagement and marketing activity
What will you bring?
- Tertiary qualifications (or equivalent experience) in marketing, journalism or communications
- Experience researching, creation and editing marketing or communication materials
- Demonstrated knowledge of digital communication tools
- Practical experience planning and implementing strategic communications
- Highly developed project management abilities
Marketing & Communications Officer – Local Economy
- Provide the key communication that helps the reactivation of the local economy
- Full time hours on a 6 month contract
- Salary from $72,737 per annum (pro rata)
About the role
You will play a key role in in keeping Whitehorse Council in touch with our broad array of businesses and residents. You will help develop, design and implement strategic communications covering a broad range of topics including: financial stimulus packages, COVID compliance practices and advocacy campaigns.
What will you deliver?
- The planning, creation and publication of targeted marketing and communications content
- Support and develop communication strategies for various Council projects
- Monitor the trends and designs of similar marketing programs in order to maintain our position as a leader in communications
- Collaborate with in-house and external designers, ensuring content meets our strategic design needs
What will you bring?
- Tertiary qualifications (or equivalent experience) in marketing, journalism or communications
- Fluency in a 2nd language is desirable but not a requirement (Mandarin, Greek or Vietnamese preferred)
- Considerable experience researching, creating and editing marketing or communication materials
- Demonstrated knowledge of digital communication tools
- Practical experience planning and implementing strategic communications
- Highly developed project management abilities
Strategic Communications Officer
- Help to create the communications that keeps Council connected to the community
- Full time hours on a 6 month contract
- Salary from $72,737 per annum (pro rata)
What will you deliver?
- Assist in developing communication strategies for various Council projects
- Prepare communications content across our digital and print channels
- Respond to media enquiries and proactively promote content to media outlets
- Collaborate with in-house and external designers, ensuring content meets our strategic communication needs
What will you bring?
- Tertiary qualification or professional experience in journalism, marketing or communications fields
- Demonstrated experience in researching, creating and editing communication materials
- A solid knowledge of digital communication tools
- Experience planning, implementing and evaluating media/engagement campaigns
- The ability to cultivate and manage effective relationships with internal staff at all levels
- Highly developed project management abilities
Strategic Communications Officer – Chinese Language
- Help Council connect with our Chinese and Asian communities
- Full time hours on a 6 month contract
- Salary from $72,737 per annum (pro rata)
About the role
Working with the Communications Team, not only will you play a role in designing and implementing our communications strategies, you will advise Council on how to effectively engage and communicate with our significant Chinese and Asian communities.
What will you deliver?
- Provide expert advice about translation services to our Communications Team
- Source stories from our local Chinese language and other diverse language communities to share on Council platforms
- Assist in developing communication strategies for various Council projects
- Prepare communications content for our digital and print channels l and print
- Respond to media enquiries and proactively promote content to media outlets
- Collaborate with in-house and external designers, ensuring content meets our strategic communication needs
What will you bring?
- Fluency in Mandarin (preferred), Cantonese or other Asian languages
- Tertiary qualification or professional experience in journalism, marketing or communications fields
- Demonstrated experience in researching, creating and editing communication materials
- A solid knowledge of digital communication tools
- Experience planning, implementing and evaluating media/engagement campaigns
- The ability to cultivate and manage effective relationships with internal staff at all levels
- Highly developed project management abilities
