Resource Recovery Education Officer

• Fixed term contract for 7 months, Full time
• $99,526.96 per annum plus Superannuation 
• Join the Sustainability, Climate and Waste team

Hume City Council is one of Australia’s fastest growing and culturally diverse councils. We put the customer and our community at the centre of all that we do, ensuring our services are efficient and accessible.

The role of the Resource Recovery Education Officer is to support the implementation of Council’s waste and resource recovery programs through effective education, engagement and behaviour change initiatives that increase community awareness and participation, reduce waste, contamination, litter and illegal dumping, and improve resource recovery outcomes. The position also builds strong stakeholder relationships and evaluates programs to support continuous improvement.

What you’ll be doing:

• Assist with developing and implementing an annual community education and engagement plan that focusses on driving positive behavioural change across a variety of waste and resource recovery topics and achieves the outcomes of the Waste and Resource Recovery Strategy.
• Coordinate bookings, promotion and delivery of education and engagement sessions (face-to-face and online) to the Hume community, including but not limited to, residents, special community groups, sporting clubs, schools, and education institutions.
• Support the promotion of Council’s waste and resource recovery targets, programs and services, as well as relevant State and Federal waste policies, objectives and initiatives.
• Identify opportunities within cross-Council operations and programs in other departments to promote and engage staff and community members in existing education and engagement programs and services.
• Develop and implement a monitoring and evaluation plan to measure the ongoing success of education and engagement programs.
• Undertake data entry, analysis and compilation of reports and feedback to continually evaluate and improve the outcomes of education and engagement programs.

The skills and experience you’ll bring to the role:

• Efficient time management skills to plan and organise one’s own work so as to achieve specific and set objectives in the most efficient way within resources available and within a set timetable, despite conflicting priorities.
• Understand and implement personnel policies including equal employment opportunity, OH&S, recruitment and selection, performance management and training and development.
• Well-developed customer service and communication skills, including the ability to communicate clearly with people from a variety of backgrounds.
• Demonstrated high-level of interpersonal, communications, consultation, and negotiation skills, including the ability to successfully persuade, convince and negotiate to resolve conflicts.
• Able to effectively contribute to broader growth strategies that leverage the capability delivered by this service.
• Highly developed and effective verbal and written communication skills, with proven experience in preparing policies, presentations, briefings, procedures and reports, producing material that meets audience needs. 

Required Certifications & Qualifications

• Relevant tertiary qualifications in public policy, psychology, behaviour change, environmental science, management, or a closely related field, with relevant experience working in the field.

Why Hume City Council?

A leader in local government, we’re committed to creating an inclusive and collaborative work environment that is guided by our values:

We’re better, every day: We give things a go and value progress over perfection. We have permission to go for it and are expected to reflect and learn.

We’re in it together: At Hume, everyone matters. We Welcome and include all. Respect and safety are expected.

We show up: We empower and trust others and own our work. We rise to the challenges and are expected to do what we say we will.

All for Hume: We strive to achieve our best for the Hume Community. We are proud and passionate about working towards better outcomes and expect they are at the centre of everything we do.

We offer a competitive salary package, professional development opportunities, and a supportive work environment.

A child safe organisation and an equal opportunity employer. Council encourages people of all ages, people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGBTIQA+ people and people from culturally diverse backgrounds to apply.

All candidates will be required to undertake background and probity checks including Reference Checks, Working with Children Check, and a Criminal Record Check.

For any queries, please contact us at careers@hume.vic.gov.au.

Applications will be reviewed progressively throughout the advertising period. This role may close once a sufficient number of suitable applicants has been received. To ensure your application is considered, please apply as early as possible.