Full Time Permanent Position

Band 7 - Salary Range $106,626 to $119,182 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

Our Communications team is expanding and we’re recruiting for the exciting new role of Website Lead.

The role is critical in shaping our website redevelopment, digital communications and online customer experience. Utilising your background and experience in website management, you will ensure our digital platforms deliver a streamlined experience for our customers.

You will work closely with stakeholders across Council to ensure all services, information and activities published to web are accessible, data-driven, strategic and brand compliant.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure Council websites are maintained to the highest standard, ensuring timely, accurate, and accessible content, optimal site architecture, user-focused design, SEO best practices, and development of online applications to enable easy customer access and self-service.
• Provide support and training for web authors across the organisation, helping teams to optimise their content and make best use of Council’s online platforms to improve community engagement and customer experience.
• Monitor, analyse and report the performance of Council’s websites and digital campaigns, providing metrics and actionable insights to inform improvements in content, functionality and customer engagement.

To view the Position Description, click here.

About you

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

• Tertiary qualifications in communications, digital, media, marketing or multimedia combined with relevant experience in website management and development.
• The employee may be required to undertake work outside of standard business hours, including weekends, on an ad hoc basis. This will be needed to meet operational requirements.
• A minimum of three years’ experience in a similar role, in content creation and management of a corporate website.
• Demonstrated experience in identifying and implementing effective customer engagement and experience improvements in the digital space, specifically through website management.
• 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 - Australian Breastfeeding Association
• Wellbeing initiatives
• Subsidised Uniforms

How To Apply

If you require further information about the position, please contact Hollie Heales, Coordinator, Internal Communications on 0429 084 149.

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 15 May 2025