Health and Wellbeing Project Officer

2 Positions

Position 1: Permanent Full Time Position 

Position 2: Fixed Term Full Time until 31/12/26 (From 01/01/27 this role is Permanent/Part time (3 days per week)

Band 5 -  Salary Range $81,006 to $93,280 per annum Pro Rata + 12% Super + ADO 

Salary offered will depend on level of skills and experience.

Why join Melton City Council?

Melton City Council is proud to serve one of Australia’s fastest-growing and most diverse communities. We are a forward-thinking local government committed to creating a city where everyone feels welcome, supported, and empowered.

As a Council, we are driven by innovation, inclusion, and excellence. We deliver high-quality services and infrastructure, promote lifelong learning, and champion health and wellbeing across our municipality. Our team plays a vital role in shaping a vibrant, sustainable future for our residents.

Working with us means being part of a collaborative and inclusive culture that values your growth. We offer:

• Professional and personal development opportunities
• Generous leave entitlements and flexible work arrangements
• A dynamic workplace close to home, surrounded by heritage charm, green spaces, and modern amenities

Join us and help build a city that thrives—where your work makes a real difference every day.

The Opportunity

We currently have an opening for the Health and Wellbeing Project Officer position (reporting to the Team Leader, Community Health Promotion) within our Healthy Inclusive Communities team.

You will be a proactive and self-motivated person with an understanding of health promotion and social equity principles with the ability to apply your prevention-focused knowledge of supporting local communities across relevant health and wellbeing priorities, as outlined in the Council and Wellbeing plan, such as:

• Promote gender equity and prevent gender-based violence
• Healthier eating and food security
• Mental health and wellbeing
• Active living and physical activity
• Community Safety.

In this role, you will build and maintain effective relationships across organisational and community stakeholders to support the delivery of evidence-based health and wellbeing initiatives. To be successful in this role you will be able to embed collaboration and inclusion applications, such as community leadership, social justice, equity, community engagement, co-design and intersectionality principles, across the relevant health and wellbeing community initiatives.

This role requires after hours work during the delivery of the Sons and Daughters of The West programs.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver the multiple, yearly Sons and Daughters of The West community 10-week programs.
• Deliver relevant prevention-focused health and wellbeing activities, events and campaigns, in collaboration with community stakeholders.
• Work collaboratively with the team to develop and implement evidence-based initiatives aimed at improving health and wellbeing in the City of Melton.
• Build and maintain partnerships with internal stakeholders to enable collective impact for health and wellbeing outcomes for the City of Melton community.
• Build and maintain relationships with community stakeholders and ensure marginalised communities voices are represented.

To view the Position Description, click here.

About you

To be successful in this role you will have the following:

• Tertiary qualification in health promotion, public health, community development, health or social sciences or a related field with little or no relevant work experience or a lesser qualification with relevant work skills.
• Excellent time management and communication skills (written and verbal) including the ability to adapt communication to suit varying audiences.
• Knowledge and understanding of the principles and practices of health promotion, social determinants of health and chronic disease prevention.
• Ability to work flexible work hours, including evenings and occasional weekends. 
• Current valid Victorian Driver’s Licence.
• Must hold or be able to obtain an Employee Working with Children Check.

Culture and Values

Our vision for our community is to be: "A vibrant, safe and liveable city accessible to all" and that means there’s a place here for you too. Our organisational values represent us as an established growth Council and the values are reflected in everything we do; our decision-making, our actions and our service provision to the community. Council has a diverse and vibrant organisation and we’d love to have you join us to help shape a city for the future.

We are Vibrant MELTON. Our values are:

• Motivate
• Empower
• Lead
• Trust
• Open
• Nurture 

Benefits

There are a number of great reasons why our people love working at Melton City Council: 

Staff Benefits | Melton City Council

• 13 ADO's (Accrued Day Off) per year*
• 5 weeks annual leave*
• Extensive Career Development & Leadership Programs
• 16 weeks Paid Parental Leave (Super is paid during parental leave)*
• 3 weeks Paid Secondary Carer Leave*
• Family Room available including Breastfeeding Facilities - Australian Breastfeeding Association
• Wellbeing initiatives
• Subsidised Uniforms

*Eligible for Full Time positions or Part Time positions Pro Rata and Fixed term positions eligible after 12 months of employment.

How To Apply

If you require further information about the position, please contact Daisy Brundell, Team Leader Community Health Promotion on 9747 5795.

Applications must include a Resume and address the Key Selection Criteria outlining your suitability to the role. To address the Key Selection Criteria, you will need to write short statements explaining how you meet the criteria, or how you demonstrate the capability. We encourage you to keep your responses concise. 

To be eligible for employment at Melton City Council you must be legally entitled to work in Australia.

All successful applicants will need to undertake pre-employment requirements including but not limited to a satisfactory criminal history record check. Successful applicants must be able to comply with any public health orders applicable to local government. 

We strongly encourage job applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disabilities, LGBTIQA+ and people from culturally diverse backgrounds. If selected for an interview and you require any additional support or adjustments regarding interview arrangements, please advise the contact listed above in advance.

Melton City Council is committed to being a child safe organisation and has Zero tolerance for child abuse. Melton City Council is committed to creating and maintaining a child safe organisation where protecting children and preventing and responding to child abuse is at the centre of our everyday thinking and service delivery.