AddressFull Time Permanent Position
Band 8 - Salary Range $120,224 to $134,591 per annum + 11% 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
A the fastest growing city in Australia, Melton City Council has a growing property management function, and a unique opportunity exists to proactively manage Council’s property portfolio in accordance with the relevant legislative requirements to ensure maximum benefit for the Melton community.
The role will coordinate Council's property related projects including acquisitions and disposals of land, road closures, easements, section 173 Agreements and other property / land dealings, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation and Council policy.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide strategic property advice on complex and/or sensitive leasing, licensing, acquisition, and disposal matters.
- Process and prepare documentation relating to acquisitions and transfers of land/property in accordance with legislative and policy requirements.
- Coordinate responses to referrals on development applications, planning proposals, land transfer to Council and public works proposals.
- Develop effective property policies and procedures that guide Council in making decisions around the use and management of Council’s landholdings.
- Prepare reports to Council, the Executive Leadership Team and other relevant stakeholders relating to property matters.
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About you
To be successful in this role you will have the following:
- Tertiary qualifications in relevant field of study or equivalent such as law, property, finance or valuations further formal qualifications in the field of expertise or in management alternatively lesser formal qualifications together with extensive and diverse experience, or intensive specialist experience.
- A minimum of five years industry experience, preferably in local government.
- Experience in the management of leases, licenses land acquisitions and property disposals.
- A strong understanding of legislative requirements for property management in a local government context.
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
- 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 Emily Keogh, Head of Governance via email ***********@melton.vic.gov.au.
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 Thursday 30 May 2024
