Part Time Fixed Term Position

August 2025 to January 2026

14 hours per week

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

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.

Opportunities

Melton City Libraries is seeking a highly motivated professional, passionate about what marketing and communications can do to improve community access and participation in Library services.

In this role, you will assist in the design and implementation of creative marketing and communications initiatives for Melton City Libraries and Council’s Learning Portfolio, including social media, print collateral, multi-media, signage and displays. Additionally, you will support community engagement in creative and emerging technologies, ensuring that content is accurate and current across the website, App, catalogue, self-service kiosks, and Library Access Points.

This position is part time fixed term position based on a 14 hour week. This position will be predominately based at the Melton Library and Learning Hub, though all Library staff work across our branches.

Key Responsibilities

• Support and coordinate the ongoing development and enhancement of the virtual library.
• Enhance Libraries and Learning online programs and exhibitions.
• Identify and contribute to the development and implementation of systems, processes and tools that increase the quality and impact of Libraries and Learning communications efforts.
• As a library customer service shift supervisor, provide leadership to staff in the delivery of high-quality customer service.

To view the Position Description, click here.

About you

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

• Tertiary qualification acceptable for professional membership (librarian) of the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), or relevant tertiary qualification in information technology or marketing field.
• Sound experience in developing and implementing creative technology initiatives in a library or cultural context.
• Extensive web authoring skills and the development of online content using a range of multi-media tools and applications.
• Available to participate in rostered library customer service shifts at library facilities or outreach
• Current valid Victorian Driver’s Licence.
• Must hold or be able to obtain an Employee Working with Children Check.

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

• 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

*These benefits are pro rata.

How To Apply

If you require further information about the position, please contact Chelsey Excell, Team Leader Literacy & Learning Programs on 9747 5217.

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