Full Time Permanent Position

Band 5 - Salary Range $81,006 to $93,280 per annum + 12% Super + ADO

Salary offered will depend on level of skills and experience.

Why join Melton City Council?

Melton City Council is proud to serve one of Australia’s fastest-growing and most diverse communities. We are a forward-thinking local government committed to creating a city where everyone feels welcome, supported, and empowered.

As a Council, we are driven by innovation, inclusion, and excellence. We deliver high-quality services and infrastructure, promote lifelong learning, and champion health and wellbeing across our municipality. Our team plays a vital role in shaping a vibrant, sustainable future for our residents.

Working with us means being part of a collaborative and inclusive culture that values your growth. We offer:

• Professional and personal development opportunities
• Generous leave entitlements and flexible work arrangements
• A dynamic workplace close to home, surrounded by heritage charm, green spaces, and modern amenities

Join us and help build a city that thrives—where your work makes a real difference every day.

The Opportunity

The Waste Education Officer supports the company’s goals of improving waste management outcomes through education, engagement, and practical behaviour change. By designing, delivering, and evaluating comprehensive programs that address waste reduction, recycling, and litter prevention, the role supports the organisation’s commitment to efficient and responsible waste services.

The role focuses on improving community participation in correct waste practices, reducing contamination, supporting contract performance, and addressing key issues such as dumped rubbish and hard waste. Through monitoring, audits, outreach, and reporting, it ensures that education efforts are evidence-based and impactful, strengthening the organisation’s ability to deliver efficient, compliant, and community-responsive waste services.

This role reports to the Coordinator Waste and Cleaning Operations within the City Delivery directorate and the role works closely with a range of internal and external stakeholders including schools, sporting clubs, event organisers, culturally diverse communities, waste contractors, and government bodies. The position also collaborates across departments to ensure consistency in messaging and alignment with broader service delivery goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, evaluate and report on comprehensive educational and behaviour change programs that incorporate a variety of engaging formats to raise public awareness and promote change in waste reduction, recycling, and litter prevention through targeted educational programs and outreach activities.
• Consult with and deliver waste minimisation and behaviour change programs to various groups, including schools, sporting clubs, event organizers, internal departments, and culturally diverse communities to encourage sustainable practices.
• Ensure educational and behaviour change programs are monitored, reviewed, and revised for effectiveness, utilising waste recycling data, key performance indicators, observations, and feedback.
• Oversee the implementation and review of Waste Audit processes, monitoring and reporting on measures and outcomes, while developing and implementing initiatives to improve recycling rates, reduce contamination, and address dumped rubbish and hard waste issues.

To view the Position Description, click here.

About you

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

• Tertiary qualification in a technical area with little or no experience, or less formal qualifications with relevant experience working in waste management or in a similar role.
• Demonstrated experience in the development, delivery and measurement of waste education and behaviour change programs.
• Demonstrated experience in providing specialist advice to a variety of stakeholders including residents, schools, community groups and CALD communities.
• 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

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

How To Apply

If you require further information about the position, please contact Caroline Rantall, Coordinator Waste and Cleaning Operations on 9747 7200.

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 31 July 2025