Diversity & Intercultural Project Officer

Full Time Fixed Term Position - June 2025

Band 5 - Salary Range $78,646 to $90,563 per annum + 11.5% Super + ADO

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

Joining the Community Capacity team, you will have a strong commitment and passion for working in the community and external service providers and stakeholders to collaboratively plan, implement and evaluate a range of activities that respond to the self-identified needs of diverse communities.

You will also 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.

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.
• Support the development and implementation of policies, procedures and associated community programs across Council.
• 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.

To view the Position Description, click here.

About you
 

To be successful in this role you will have the following:

• A degree or diploma qualification relevant to the role such as community development or social sciences with little or no relevant work experience.
• Experience working effectively with diverse communities, and an understanding of empowerment approaches to working with disengaged and marginalised communities.
• Experience managing community engagement processes with understanding of the required commitment to a collaborative approach to community capacity development.
• Knowledge and understanding of capacity development theory and practice, especially in relation diverse faith, cultural and LGBTIQA+ communities and their intersectionality.
• Current valid Victorian Driver’s Licence.

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

Benefits

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
• Extensive Career Development & Leadership Programs
• 16 weeks Paid Parental Leave (Super is paid during parental leave) 
• 3 weeks Paid Secondary Carer Leave
• Family Room available including Breastfeeding Facilities (Melton City Council | Australian Breastfeeding Association)
• Wellbeing initiatives
• Subsidised Uniforms

How To Apply

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

Applications must 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 COVID-19 Public Health Orders applicable to Local Government employees.

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 responding to child abuse is at the centre of our everyday thinking and service delivery.

 Applications close 11:59pm Thursday 21 November 2024