Senior Risk and Insurance Advisor

Full Time Permanent Position

Band 7 - Salary Range $109,825 to $122,758 per annum + 12% Super + ADO

Salary offered will depend on level of skills and experience.

Be part of something new

This is a brand-new role at Melton City Council that has been created to support our growing community and evolving strategic priorities. This is a great opportunity to shape the future of the role, bring fresh ideas, and make a meaningful impact from day one.

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

The Senior Risk and Insurance Advisor is responsible for providing specialist advice and leadership across Council’s enterprise risk management and insurance functions.

The position supports the Manager, Risk and Compliance in implementing Council’s Risk Management Framework and Insurance Strategy while leading the delivery of organisation-wide risk management activities, insurance programme management, and claims oversight.

The role is responsible for facilitating risk management across the organisation, providing expert advice to leaders, supporting organisational capability development and driving continuous improvement initiatives that strengthen governance, organisational resilience and informed decision-making.

The position also leads Council’s insurance programme, providing oversight of insurance claims, insurer relationships, claims analytics and strategies that minimise Council’s financial exposure.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the implementation, embedding and continuous improvement of Council’s Enterprise Risk Management Framework to strengthen governance, accountability, and informed decision-making.
• Lead and facilitate risk assessments across Council, ensuring risks, controls and treatment actions are clearly identified, assessed, and documented.
• Provide specialist advice, guidance and support to risk owners, leaders and business units to build risk capability and promote consistent risk management practice.
• Coordinate Council’s insurance programme, including policy renewals, declarations and coverage reviews, to ensure appropriate protection is maintained across Council operations, assets and activities.
• Manage relationships with insurers, insurance brokers and internal stakeholders in relation to policy coverage, claims management, renewals and insurance-related advice.
• Analyse claims data and trends to identify risk reduction opportunities, improve claims performance and minimise Council’s financial and operational exposure.

To view the Position Description, click here.

About you

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

• Demonstrated experience in enterprise risk management, including facilitating risk assessments, maintaining risk registers, and supporting the implementation of risk management frameworks.
• Demonstrated experience managing or coordinating insurance programmes and insurance claims.
• Demonstrated ability to provide specialist advice and influence stakeholders across all organisational levels.
• Highly developed analytical, problem-solving and report writing skills.
• Demonstrated experience developing and delivering risk management training, guidance or capability initiatives.
• Experience within local government or a similarly regulated environment is desirable.

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

If you require further information about the position, please contact Kat Noy, Manager Risk and Compliance on 8099 6333.

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.