Permanent | Full Time | 152 Hours Per Month (1.0 FTE)

Premium Recquatic Membership | 13% Superannuation | 19 Day Month

PACS Band 7 ($91,667 - $100,522 per annum)

What’s On Offer
An exciting opportunity exists for a creative and energetic individual to join our Engagement and Place team at the City of Kwinana. This is a full-time position working in close collaboration alongside the Community Engagement department as well as the Executive and Councillors.

As our new Senior Events Officer, you will be responsible for the planning and delivery of the City’s Major Event program, whilst also providing support and coaching to the Civic Events and Functions Officer to deliver the City’s civic events, Citizenship ceremonies and functions.

We are seeking an experienced events professional to manage a varied and diverse workload, between multiple exciting projects. You will take ownership in the development and planning of new and existing events, undertake stakeholder management, budgeting, risk management and the end-to-end delivery of high-quality events.

Who Are We?
The City of Kwinana is a thriving ocean-side community at the heart of Western Australia’s major industrial development and has the second fastest growing population within any local government area in the state. The City has seen extensive redevelopment including new residential areas, schools, retail precincts, community facilities and transport links that continue to transform Kwinana into a unique and liveable City. This is an opportunity to make some significant contributions to the City and progress your career.

What You’ll Need
To make an impact in this role, the successful candidate will have:

Considerable experience in a similar events management role, preferably within the local government sector.

Sound knowledge of contemporary practice and policy relating to events management, grants management, and risk management.

Proven ability to self-organise and work independently to plan and prioritise workloads within an environment of competing priorities and strict deadlines.

Highly developed interpersonal, teamwork, communication, and relationship building skills with an ability to provide a high level of customer service. Experience in a leadership role with direct reports will be considered favourably.

Physical capacity to undertake manual handling for setting up and packing down events and functions, delivering and installing promotional signage and materials and other related manual handling tasks

Willingness to work after hours and weekends, as required.

Well-developed analytical, creative thinking and problem-solving skills.

Tertiary qualification in events management, public relations, community development or related fields, or extensive relevant industry experience considered favourably.

Well-developed computer literacy skills demonstrated in report, grant and/or policy writing, record management and correspondence.

Driver’s licence, Police Clearance, First Aid Certificate.

What’s In It For You?
At the City of Kwinana you will enjoy a true work-life balance, with access to flexible working arrangements and a fantastic workplace culture borne from a collaborative team environment.

Other perks include, but are not limited to…

A fantastic workplace, recently ranked alongside the top 10% of the most constructive local governments in Australia and New Zealand for workplace culture!

Competitive salary plus 13% superannuation.

One RDO per month (19 day month)

A robust employee wellness program with initiatives designed to support employees' physical and mental wellbeing.

A generous Celebration and Recognition Policy for employees.

The opportunity for flexible working arrangements.

Career development, training opportunities and study support.

Premium Kwinana Recquatic Centre membership.

This is your opportunity to take the next step in your career and make a significant contribution to the growing and changing community at the City of Kwinana.

Want To Know More?
To be considered for this position, applicants must submit a CV, a cover letter and a statement addressing the relevant Selection Criteria with specific examples in no more than two (2) pages.

For more information relating to the position please call Alexi Peacock, Coordinator Engagement and Place, on 9439 0429.

Apply online: www.kwinana.wa.gov.au

Applications close: 5:00pm, Monday 6 October 2025

The City of Kwinana reserves the right to commence recruitment prior to the closing date, and will not accept or consider late applications

The City of Kwinana promotes and values diversity to create a unique work force. Applicants from diverse backgrounds, such as Aboriginal people, people living with disability or people from different cultural backgrounds are encouraged to apply. The City also strives to be a customer centric organisation, with the customer at the centre of everything we do. As such, all employees play an important role in helping us to achieve this by ensuring they provide best-practice customer service. The City has the goal of zero harm for its employees, this includes providing a smoke-free environment and minimising exposure to the elements. Conditions of employment are in accordance with the City’s current Industrial Agreement. For further information, please contact our Recruitment team on 9236 4618 or 9236 4628.

Please note: As part of the City’s recruitment process, the selected applicant will be required to undergo a pre-employment medical which includes a Drug and Alcohol screen test.