Coordinator Parks and Open Space

Full Time Permanent Position

Band 8 - Salary Range $127,546 to $142,788 per annum + 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

Melton City Council is searching for an exceptional leader to join us as our Coordinator Parks and Open Space.

This is an exciting and diverse opportunity overseeing high profile parks and open space services that are important to our growing community and where no two days are the same.

Reporting to the Manager Operations and leading a team of 14, this role is responsible for overseeing the maintenance of Council’s growing number of parks, trees and sportsgrounds, delivering minor capital works projects and contributing to the Council’s broader strategic goals in managing our parks and open spaces.

Key Responsibilities

Key responsibilities of this role include:

• Providing strong leadership to the Parks and Open Space team including mentoring, team building and ensuring service delivery in line with Council’s established strategies, plans, policies, procedures and budgets.
• Overseeing major maintenance contracts for parks and open space, trees and sportsgrounds maintenance including monitoring compliance and performance.
• Developing and coordinating recurrent maintenance and minor capital works programs related to the parks and open space portfolio.
• Preparing and submitting Council’s annual Vegetation Management Plan (Electric Line Clearance Program) to the Office of the Chief Electrical Inspector.
• Coordinate Council’s asset management activities for open space assets and assist in the development and review of strategic documentation in collaboration with other stakeholders.
• Perform the role as one of Council’s Deputy Municipal Emergency Management Officers (MEMO) including participation in a roster system for the on-call MEMO function.

To view the Position Description, click here.

About you

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

• Extensive leadership experience leading large, multi-disciplinary teams, preferably in an operational environment.
• A tertiary qualification in horticulture, arboriculture, turf management or nature resource management or a related discipline, or extensive relevant experience in managing public open space.
• Proven experience in developing, procuring and managing large service-based contracts.
• Current Victorian drivers licence.

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* 
• Genuine Flexible work options
• Additional $500 per annum pro rata superannuation for female employees over the age of 45
• Extensive Career Development & Leadership Programs
• Access to the Local Government Employee Health Plan (GMHBA) with exclusive benefits
• 16 weeks Paid Parental Leave (Super is paid during parental leave)* 
• 3 weeks Paid Secondary Carer Leave*
• Wellbeing initiatives

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

How To Apply

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.