Health Impact Officer

Reference number: 13119

Closing date: 11:45pm, Friday 13 March 2020

• Permanent Full-Time
• Classified as Band 6
• $87,836.45 - $97,640.10 per annum 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 128,000 residents and over 10,000 businesses.

The Opportunity

An exciting opportunity has become available to improve the health and wellbeing of Moonee Valley’s residents, through providing advice and leading on Council’s local public health and wellbeing plans, strategies, projects and programs.

Reporting directly to the Coordinator Health and Young Communities and working collaboratively across Council, you will be accountable for:

• Undertaking research, planning and social impact activities to inform Council’s health and wellbeing programs, policies and plans;
• Developing, implementing and evaluating strategic documents, sustainable projects and programs, including the municipal public health and wellbeing plan, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation;
• Advocating for improved health and wellbeing outcomes through networks, partnerships and submissions in response to emerging issues, ensuring the needs of community are known and promoted;
• Maintaining strong collaborative relationships with health, wellbeing and community stakeholders;
• Providing advice and recommendations to reduce health inequalities in Moonee Valley.

About You

To be suitable for this position, you will possess the following:

• Tertiary or post graduate qualifications in health, social planning or impact, community development, social science or a related field, or have relevant substantial experience;
• Experience in collaborative project and program design, implementation and measurement;
• Sound knowledge of program logic and /or systems thinking, especially as they apply to municipal health and wellbeing outcomes;
• Proven ability to implement preventative public health initiatives and measure health and social impact and outcomes;
• Effective communication and data analysis skills.

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.

Next Steps
If this sounds like an exciting career challenge that aligns with your personal goals and expertise, we want to hear from you!

Applications must be submitted through our online system https://mooneevalley.mercury.com.au/
and should be in line with the Moonee Valley City Council Application Guide found at the bottom of the advertisement. Applications that do not meet these requirements may not be considered.

For further information please view the Position Description or contact Annalise De Mel, on (03) 9243 1264.