Jobs at Hume City Council

Provide senior strategic communications and public affairs support for Council advocacy and reputation. Lead publicity, media opportunities, stakeholder messaging, issues management and high-impact communications projects. Advise ELT, Councillors and senior stakeholders, collaborate with Government Relations and Corporate Communications, and support emerging priorities under the Manager Strategic Communications.

Provide communications advice and delivery across Council projects: develop and manage communications plans and campaigns, create audience-centred content for digital and print channels, coordinate integrated activities, build stakeholder relationships, monitor and evaluate outcomes, and support issues and reputational management.

Provide media relations and reputation management support for Council: proactively monitor and analyse media and community sentiment, prepare media releases and briefings, manage media enquiries, advise stakeholders and leadership on emerging issues and risks, and support crisis communications and spokesperson preparation.

Lead strategic corporate, executive and reputational communications for Council. Provide high-level advice to CEO, Executive Leadership and elected officials, manage issues and crisis communications, develop integrated audience-centred plans, mentor communications staff, and coordinate media and stakeholder engagement for major priorities and sensitive matters.

Provide in-person safety advice, coaching, incident investigation support and training across council business areas. Manage safety portfolios (psychosocial risk, emergency management, manual handling, hazardous substances, high-risk work), produce reports, improve safety systems, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver practical, evidence-informed safety outcomes and stronger risk ownership.

Design, implement, and manage scalable cloud infrastructure across major providers. Implement IaC, monitor performance and security, troubleshoot incidents, optimize costs, run migrations, enforce compliance, collaborate with dev/ops/security teams, and maintain documentation.

Lead and coordinate the Subdivision Supervision team to inspect and supervise subdivisional civil construction, ensure compliance with approved plans, Australian Standards and Council specifications, review and approve engineering construction and detailed infrastructure designs, prepare budgets and resource plans, draft specifications and provide specialist technical advice to stakeholders, contractors and developers.

Coordinate and deliver Culture & Capability programs including logistics, scheduling, communications, participant engagement and record-keeping. Support employee experience, recognition, leadership and pathway programs, monitor progress against milestones, provide customer-focused support, and collaborate across teams to achieve program outcomes.

Lead development and implementation of organisational strategy, outcomes-based performance frameworks, and evidence-based insights. Deliver predictive and diagnostic analytics, community research and the Community Satisfaction Survey. Improve strategic planning, engagement and capability across the Council to inform resource prioritisation, monitor benefits and improve service delivery and performance.

Lead planning, delivery and partnership coordination for Connected Hume place-based health promotion. Convene and strengthen coalitions, engage priority communities (including First Peoples and CARM), co-design neighbourhood initiatives, meet VicHealth MEL requirements, manage reporting and budgets, and share learnings to inform prevention strategy and continuous improvement.