Marketing Advisor

Description:

Marketing Advisor

Reference number: 10597

Closing date: 11:45pm, Monday 31 March 2025

• Temporary position available until the 31/12/2025.
• Part-time role offering 3 days per week (0.6FTE).
• Salary commencing at $41.82 per hour plus 11.5% superannuation commensurate with experience.

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 130,000 residents and over 10,000 businesses. Our 1,200 employees bring their differing backgrounds, experiences and unique perspectives to our collaborative environment, and are supported to share ideas, initiatives and talent, making a positive impact on our community for now and in the future.

The Opportunity

The Marketing Advisor provides support to the key marketing campaigns and communications plans. The role ensures that the Moonee Valley community and stakeholders are aware of Council’s programs and services and motivates community participation, particularly with Council's Arts and Culture offering.

Your responsibilities will include, but not be limited to the following:

• Communicate concisely and persuasively with diverse stakeholders using a range of channels, including supporting other team members with marketing activities.
• Collaborating with team members to prepare and design marketing material and activations
• Coordinating advertising schedules and bookings, liaising with a variety of advertising outlets as required.
• Using publishing tools, such as Canva and InDesign to produce collateral.
• Developing design briefs and liaising with graphic designers throughout collateral production.
• Supporting the marketing team with developing and implementing strategic marketing plans.
• Regularly updating and maintaining accurate information to relevant databases.
• Maintaining up-to-date records using Councils record management system, TRIM.
• Provide proactive business partner support to the organisation’s communications requirements and encourage the effective use of communications tools and strategies to engage staff across multiple locations and services.
• The position will also perform other public relations and communications functions as required, including developing communication plans, assisting with live streaming of council meetings and providing on-call services over the weekend and public holidays for media and social media enquiries on a rotational basis or as required.

About You

To succeed in this position, you will have:

• The skills and knowledge needed for this role are beyond those normally acquired through completion of secondary education, or TAFE certificate or associate diploma alone.
• The applicant would require tertiary qualification and experience within the field of marketing, communications, public relations or other relevant discipline.

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 and should be in line with the Moonee Valley City Council Application Guide. Applications that do not meet these requirements may not be considered. Please ensure that your responses to the Key Selection Criteria (KSC) are provided in a separate document.

For further information please view the Position Description or contact Maryanne Karlovic, Senior Coordinator Communications on (03) 9243 9115.

In line with Council Policy, Council positions require you to be vaccinated against COVID-19. If you are successful in our recruitment and selection process, you will be required to provide evidence of your vaccination status.

Our Culture of Inclusion

If you are interested in the role but feel you may not meet the full range of selection criteria, we encourage you to contact us to discuss your experience and application for this position.

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 H2@mvcc.vic.gov.au or call 9243 1122.