Coordinator Environmental Services

Full Time Permanent Position

Band 8 - Salary Range $120,224 to $134,591 per annum + 11% Super + RDO

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

Are you looking for a great opportunity to put your skills into practice? We are recruiting for the Coordinator Environmental Services role. The position will report to the Manager City Environment & Sustainability and will lead a multi-disciplinary team that oversees development and implementation of key projects and strategies to enable the protection and enhancement of environmental values in Melton.

We require someone who is able to work with Council teams and external stakeholders to achieve outcomes that protect and enhance environmental values on public and private land in a Growth Area Council.

As a successful candidate you should be able to communicate clearly what is required to respond to climate change, can quickly establish good working relationships with key stakeholders and has experience with the development and delivery of strategies and polices that relate to biodiversity and pest plant and animal control.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the broader Environment & Sustainability team and other departments to enable improved ecological outcomes within Melton and assist Council and the community to respond to impacts of climate change and rapid urban development.
• Foster a culture of collaboration within the team that creates opportunities for staff to grow and develop.
• Coordinate the preparation and implementation of relevant strategies, policies, management plans and guidelines to deliver improved biodiversity and environmental outcomes for Council in response to the impacts of climate change and rapid urban development.
• Develop and lead the implementation of policies and processes that enable improved delivery of Council capital projects while ensuring that natural assets are protected and enhanced.

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About you

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

• Tertiary qualifications in an environmental discipline or lesser formal qualification with extensive and diverse experience or intensive specialist experience.
• Extensive experience in the development and implementation of strategies and polices relating to biodiversity and the natural environment, including obtaining external funding to assist delivery.
• Well-developed skills in negotiation and conflict resolution with the ability to deal with difficult situations and present a positive Council image.
• Expert understanding of the underlying principles of natural environment, biodiversity and climate change.
• Ability to coordinate and lead staff to work positively and pro-actively within a team environment to achieve organisational goals.
• 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

• 19 Day Month
• 4 weeks and 2 days annual leave (As of 1st of July 2024 will increase to 5 weeks)
• 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 Justin Horne, Manager City Environment & Sustainability on 0499 311 ***.

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 and Council’s COVID-19 vaccination policy which require employees to provide documentary evidence of their vaccination status before attending the workplace.

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 Wednesday 31 January 2024