Are you ready to lead a team that keeps the community safe and ensures justice is served? The City of Melville is looking for an experienced Service Lead – Community Safety Investigations to oversee complex investigations and compliance enforcement related to local laws.

If you are a strategic leader with a passion for community safety, compliance, and team development, this is your chance to play a crucial role in ensuring a safer, well-regulated community.

Location: City of Melville Civic Centre

Salary: $116,257.58 - $123,661.53 pro-rata p.a. + 11.5% super

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent

What’s in it for you?

Grow Your Leadership Skills - Build managerial experience by overseeing a complex service area and leading a high-performing team

Get involved in Strategic Impact & Forward Planning - Play a key role in shaping the future of the team, improving investigative processes, and enhancing community compliance outcomes

Maintain Operational Involvement - Stay engaged with hands-on investigative work, while enjoying the benefits of a Monday–Friday schedule

Be Part of Positive Change – Lead a career elevating opportunity to change the way Rangers and Municipal Law Enforcement operates

What You’ll Be Responsible For

• Leading and mentoring a team of compliance officers in complex investigations
• Ensuring thorough enforcement of local and State laws
• Overseeing the City’s Pound facility, ensuring compliance with animal welfare standards
• Overseeing legal processes, including prosecution brief preparation, compliance reviews, and court and tribunal representation
• Collaborating with WA Police, legal representatives, and community stakeholders to drive enforcement and compliance initiatives
• Handling escalated customer complaints and high-profile investigations
• Implementing new technology to enhance investigations, such as GPS tracking, CCTV, and LPR systems

What You’ll Need to Succeed

• Significant experience in compliance enforcement, investigations, or municipal law enforcement
• Ability to work autonomously and set the tempo and direction for your team
• Strong leadership skills with experience managing a team in compliance or law enforcement settings
• Excellent knowledge of local laws, governance, and legal procedures
• Proven ability to handle complex investigations and prepare prosecution briefs
• Exceptional communication and conflict resolution skills
• Current ‘C’ Class Driver’s Licence
• Current National Police Clearance or willingness to obtain one

How to Apply

Apply online via the Apply button and provide a comprehensive resume and cover letter (no more than 2 pages) demonstrating fulfilment of essential requirements outlined in the Position Description attached.

Closing Date: Friday, 21 March 2025, 11.59PM AWST.

For further information about this position, please contact Michael Emery, Head of Community Safety on 08 9364 0621.

If you are interested in this exciting opportunity, we strongly advise you apply as soon as possible as the City reserves the right to close this advertisement before the closing date.

Why The City of Melville?

We are a welcoming and diverse community that enjoys a blend of retail and business precincts and an abundance of open spaces in a unique, natural landscape, along the shores of the beautiful Swan and Canning Rivers. We are proud to be recognised as an Inclusive Employer 2024-2025—a prestigious award that benchmarks workplace inclusion across various diversity areas. This recognition is the only one of its kind in Australia and highlights our commitment to fostering a workplace where diversity is celebrated, and inclusion thrives. In everything we do, we focus on our EPIC values of Excellence, Participation, Integrity and Caring and we aim to achieve an inclusive, vibrant, and sustainable future.

Why Belong?

Elevate your work experience with the City of Melville’s benefits!

• Be part of an award-winning, Inclusive Employer recognised for creating diverse, accessible, and welcoming workspaces
• Free Membership to our LeisureFit Centres
• Free On-Site Parking
• 6 Weeks Paid Parental Leave + 2 Weeks Return To Work Leave*
• 2 additional days of Annual Leave + Purchased Annual Leave options - take up to 10 weeks off per year*
• Superannuation package co-contribution up to 15%*
• Salary Packaging and Novated Leasing Options*
• Structured and supportive professional development, and study assistance programs*
• Access to Wellness and Employee Assistance Programs
• An active social club to connect with colleagues and make lifelong friends

*Conditions apply. Please reach out for more information.

The City of Melville celebrates diversity, inclusion, and belonging. We welcome and strongly encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, including but not limited to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people from culturally diverse backgrounds, and people living with disabilities.

All candidates applying for a position where the use of ‘plant and machinery’ or driving a vehicle is an inherent requirement of the role and other ‘high risk’ facilities where public safety is at risk, will be required to pass a drug and alcohol test as part of a pre-employment medical.

We appreciate the interest from Recruitment Agencies in collaborating with us, however, at this time, the City of Melville is managing the recruitment process for this role. Please refrain from submitting candidate profiles to our team. Rest assured, should the need for external assistance arise in the future, we will not hesitate to reach out to recruitment agencies.