Full Time Fixed Term (2 years) Position

Band 7 - Salary Range $109,825 - $122,758 per annum + 12% Super + ADO

(Rate of pay and super effective 1 July 2025)

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

The Project Officer is a critical position in the Transformation Office, supporting delivery of the workplace transformation plan, and ensuring readiness of the organisation's future ways of working in relation to customer and people experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, implement and lead the project management life cycle, including project plans, timelines and milestones, to ensure programs deliver outcomes that align with Council’s objectives and meet the needs of the community.
• Coordinate and support engagement activities with internal departments and external stakeholders through various consultations, briefings, workshops and communications to community groups and other Council teams.
• Assist project leads in the development and forecasting of budgets, implementing measures to monitor project expenditure to ensure projects are delivered within agreed financial constraints.
• Maintain appropriate records, registers and documentation relating to procurement processes, project development and progress, correspondence, risks and key milestones in accordance with Council systems and policies.
• Identify and assess project risks in the initial development phase and assist in implementing measures to manage risks in consultation with other business units, escalating issues where necessary.

To view the Position Description, click here.

About you

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

• Tertiary qualifications in project management or related field with several years’ relevant experience or lesser formal qualifications with extensive experience.
• 5 years plus experience in project support or coordination, ideally within government or large organisations undertaking transformation.
• Demonstrated experience in supporting, engaging and influencing key stakeholders to achieve outcomes, including project teams, SME’s, staff, people leaders and sponsors.
• Proficient in developing program reporting for project control group/steering committee governance models.
• Excellent communication, time management, and stakeholder engagement skills.

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

*Eligible for Full Time positions or Part Time positions Pro Rata and Fixed term positions eligible after 12 months of employment.

How To Apply

If you require further information about the position, please contact Ray Dummett, Transformation Program Lead at [email protected].

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 public health orders applicable to local government.

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 10 July 2025