At a Glance
- Tasks: Create and implement community engagement strategies that make a real difference.
- Company: Join a progressive council dedicated to community connection and engagement.
- Benefits: Competitive pay, flexible hours, ongoing training, and growth opportunities.
- Other info: Inclusive workplace welcoming diverse applicants; growth potential for enthusiastic candidates.
- Why this job: Be a key player in shaping your community's future and making impactful connections.
- Qualifications: Tertiary qualifications or relevant experience in communications, marketing, or public relations.
The predicted salary is between 94500 - 115500 $ per year.
Are you looking for a position that allows you to make use of your innovative skills to develop and implement effective community engagement strategies? If so, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.
What we will offer you:
- Remuneration of $3,663.70 gross per fortnight with the opportunity to progress to $4,396.44 gross per fortnight + superannuation (12%).
- Access to Councils Flexible Working Hours Agreement.
- The opportunity to contribute to meaningful projects and initiatives that make a difference in our community.
- Ongoing training and development opportunities.
Your new role:
This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in strengthening the connection between Council and our community, ensuring residents have meaningful opportunities to contribute to decisions, projects and initiatives that shape the future of our city. As the Community Engagement Officer you will be responsible for ensuring Council’s community engagement framework is adopted and enacted across the organisation, playing a lead role in the ongoing development of a community engagement culture within the organisation, supporting project staff in undertaking community engagement on issues and projects as operationally required and building open and positive relationships across the organisation to enable the productions and coordination of community information.
What you will need to succeed:
- Tertiary qualifications in Journalism, Marketing, Communications and/or Public Relations or alternatively relevant demonstrated experience;
- Experience in client or customer support and management;
- Experience in utilising the IAP2 engagement framework;
- Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office, particularly in Word, PowerPoint and other relevant software packages;
- Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills as well as solid time management and planning skills.
If you believe you have a strong work ethic and an enthusiastic attitude to learning and don’t hold relevant qualifications, don’t be discouraged from applying. This position can be a growth opportunity for the right candidate. Lower levels of responsibility would be associated with this role and this will align with the remuneration.
What’s next?
Applications close Sunday, 15 November 2026 at 11.59pm AEDST with interviews to be held in the week commencing Monday, 23 November 2026. We encourage shortlisted candidates to attend interviews in person where possible. If you are unable to do so, please let us know in your application and we will work with you to discuss suitable arrangements.
Council is an inclusive employer. We strive to reflect the community in which we work, as a result we welcome and encourage applications from skilled people from all walks of life. This includes women, men, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with a disability, veterans, sexually and gender diverse people, people with lived experience and people of all ages.
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