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Youth Participation Officer
- Temporary Part-Time, 6 month position
- 22.8 hours per week
- Parental Leave Backfill
- After hours and weekend work may be required occasionally
- Classified as Band 5
- $36.27 - $42.19 per hour plus 9.5% superannuation
About Us
Moonee Valley City Council is a vibrant and diverse municipality. We are a local government within the north-west metropolitan area of Melbourne, providing a range of services to some 118,000 residents and over 10,000 businesses.
The Opportunity
This role will see you working within the passionate and dynamic Youth Development team, contributing to the engagement and participation of young people 12-25 years old who live, work or study within the Moonee Valley municipality. You will focus on the development, implementation and evaluation of youth leadership, student leadership and civic participation initiatives.
Reporting into the Team Leader Youth Participation and Planning your responsibilities will include the following:
- Developing and implementing a program framework for youth participation in Moonee Valley across all ages and neighbourhoods
- Training and supporting young people to build on their civic participation and leadership skills
- Facilitating diverse youth participation and leadership groups across the municipality
- Ensuring youth participation programs align with MV2040 Strategy themes and strategic directions
- Maintaining strong internal and community stakeholder relationships
- Promoting youth participation opportunities to young people, schools and the community
- Contributing to the development of policy, service models and operational frameworks for the delivery of Council’s youth leadership and youth voice programs
About You
In order to be successful for this position, you will possess the following:
- Degree qualifications in Youth Work, Social Work, Social Sciences or Community Development and/or demonstrated relevant experience working with young people using a community development approach
- Demonstrated experience facilitating groups of young people, youth participation and community development frameworks
- Knowledge of latest student voice and youth participation models and trends, with experience working collaboratively with young people
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate with a wide-range of audiences from diverse backgrounds
- Demonstrated ability to work independently, display initiative and creativity
- Experience developing and implementing youth led programs and events, with highly developed organisational and promotional skills and the ability to balance multiple tasks efficiently.
- Ability to work after hours and on weekends to meet the needs of young people accessing the service when necessary
- A current Australian Drivers Licence, with access to a comprehensively insured private vehicle for work use at times when fleet cars aren’t available
- A current Working with Children Check
What We Offer
At Moonee Valley, our greatest strength is our people. We recruit people who can be better than ourselves and retain people by allowing them to grow at their own pace, providing training opportunities and offering a safe environment where they will be rewarded for their contributions.
We recognise the needs of employees with family responsibilities and we want to help them balance their home and work life. Council provides a number of benefits to our staff including generous paid parental and pre-natal leave, carer’s leave, salary sacrifice options, flexible work opportunities, and an alternate model of employment where staff may purchase up to six additional weeks of annual leave.
Our Culture of Inclusion
We don’t just accept difference - we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our services and our community. With a focus on inclusion, accessibility and flexibility, we'll support you at every stage of your career. We recognise the importance of balance and embrace work agility, understanding that this means different things to each and every one of our employees.
Moonee Valley City Council is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Child Safe employer and we value diversity and encourage people from different backgrounds to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds, people of any age or gender, people identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and gender diverse, intersex and/or queer (LGBTIQA+) and people with disability. If you have a reasonable adjustment, support or access requirement, we encourage you to let us know through your application or email hradmin@mvcc.vic.gov.au or call 9243 1122.
For further information please view the Position Description or contact Rachael Fry, Acting Coordinator Youth Development on (03) 9243 9155.
Closing date: 11:45pm, Friday 26 April 2019
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