City of Kwinana

Active Travel Officer

Fixed Term (22 months) | Part-time (0.8 FTE) | 60.8 hours per fortnight
Premium Recquatic Membership | 12.5% Superannuation
This position is classified as a PACS Band 6 ($83,004 – $88,996 p.a) under the City of Kwinana’s structured remuneration system.

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What’s On Offer
An amazing opportunity exists for an Active Travel Officer to join the Community Development team at the City of Kwinana. This is a part-time position reporting to the Senior Team Leader Club Development and Health and working alongside a superstar team. The primary focus of an Active Travel Officer is to deliver innovative wellbeing initiatives and healthy lifestyle programs that will encourage lifelong, sustainable healthy living habits in the Kwinana community and result in intergenerational human behaviour change.

What You’ll Need
To be successful in this role you will need:

• Relevant tertiary qualifications and/or significant relevant experience.
• Driver’s Licence, Police Clearance, Working with Children Check, First Aid Certificate and willingness to work after hours as required.
• Experience in coordinating project management activities, working to agreed priorities and outcomes, responding to changes as needed.
• Experience in identifying, developing and delivering community programs that encourage and promote behavioural change.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, suited to a wide range of audiences and situations. Proven experience in stakeholder engagement across diverse audiences.
• Experience in leading projects, including leading and influencing within your organisations, and delivering on project outcomes.
• Positive, flexible, and adaptable to meet evolving business needs and take responsibility for meeting objectives and progressing work.

What’s In It For You?

At the City of Kwinana you will enjoy a true work-life balance, with access to flexible working arrangements and a fantastic workplace culture borne from a collaborative team environment.

Other perks include, but are not limited to…

• A fantastic workplace, recently ranked alongside the top 10% of the most constructive local governments in Australia and New Zealand for workplace culture!
• Competitive salary plus 12.5% superannuation.
• A robust employee wellness program with initiatives designed to support employees' physical and mental wellbeing.
• A generous Celebration and Recognition Policy for employees.
• The opportunity for flexible working arrangements.
• Career development, training opportunities and study support.
• Premium Kwinana Recquatic Centre membership.

Want To Know More?
For more information relating to the position, please contact Donna Howatson, Coordinator Community Development on 9439 0236.

To be considered for this position applicants must submit a statement addressing the above criteria giving specific examples in no more than two (2) pages, along with your cover letter and resume.

What Are You Waiting For?
If you suspect this role might just be the one you’ve been searching for - don’t delay.

Apply now!

We look forward to hearing from you.

Apply online: www.kwinana.wa.gov.au

Applications close: 5.00 PM, Monday 2 December 2024.

The City of Kwinana reserves the right to commence recruitment prior to the closing date, and will not accept or consider late applications.

The City of Kwinana promotes and values diversity to create a unique work force. Applicants from diverse backgrounds, such as Aboriginal people, people living with disability or people from different cultural backgrounds are encouraged to apply. The City also strives to be a customer-centric organisation, with the customer at the centre of everything we do. As such, all employees play an important role in helping us to achieve this by ensuring they provide best-practice customer service. The City has the goal of zero harm for its employees, this includes providing a smoke-free environment and minimising exposure to the elements. Conditions of employment are in accordance with the City’s current Enterprise Agreement. For further information, please contact our Recruitment team on 9236 4618 or 9236 4628.

Please note: As part of the City’s recruitment process, the selected applicant will be required to undergo a pre-employment medical which includes a Drug and Alcohol screen test.