Job Number: 978078
Work type: Permanent Full Time
Location: Melbourne – Docklands
Categories: Other, Property, Planning
Our Organisation
At Melbourne Water we love water and love life. What we do makes a vital contribution to Melbourne’s famous lifestyle. We achieve this by supplying high quality drinking water, providing outstanding sewerage services, integrating drainage systems, building resilience to flooding and by enhancing our waterways and land for greater community use. At Melbourne Water we are in the ‘Decade that Matters’ and we’ve got some ambitious goals to achieve. It’s a pride we share in helping to make greater Melbourne a fantastic place to live.
The Role
Reporting to the Manager Service Programs Healthy Waterways you will be responsible for collaboratively implementing the Healthy Waterways Strategy with key external partners. This includes using your well-honed communications skills to organise multi-partner meetings and events, writing and coordinating papers, developing recommendations and acting on the direction provided by the Region Wide Leadership Group (RLG). This role strongly supports the RLG and other governance groups in improving the health of rivers, wetlands and estuaries across the Port Philip and Western Port Region.
This will be achieved through:
- Organising and facilitating annual Healthy Waterways Strategy Catchment Forums
- Writing and producing documents with partners on themes in the Strategy, writing newsletters to inform interested members of the community and monitoring the related communications
- Facilitating the collation of partner planned activities to support co-delivery of the Healthy Waterways Strategy
Your Skills and Experience
- Experience working in and understanding of the environmental, Natural Resource Management or Water sector
- Proven experience with the management and coordination of collaborative workshops and forums
- Proven ability to present data to ensure it is appropriate for a diverse audience group
- Experience working in a corporate environment, and the ability to embrace complexity and ambiguity and translate them into concrete working programs and deliverables
- High level written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent time management and organisational skills
- Ability to report and present accurate and timely environmental information to external stakeholders and the leadership team.
- Technical understanding and ability to ability to strategically identify critical ‘leverage points’ and highlight opportunities to influence the whole system, not just one component
For more information, please see the attached Role Mandate: 
Healthy Waterways Strategy Coordinator Role Mandate.pdf
Culture at Melbourne Water
We take enormous pride in cultivating a culture that holistically benefits our team and the wider Melbourne community. The pillars of our culture are based on Flexibility, Impact, Growth & Development, and People.
- We are committed to flexible working in a variety of manners including hybrid work, varied start/finish times, purchased leave, part time work, and 9 day fortnights. We understand that Melbourne Water and our customers are benefitted by enabling balance in work and life.
- Make an impact as part of a passionate team doing meaningful work to enhance life and livability in Melbourne.
- We relish learning and challenging the status quo for continuous growth. Perpetual and varied opportunities for learning and development are offered in a variety of manners – from formal development programs, digital learning content and lunch & learns; to visiting our sites and getting to see our initiatives and projects first hand.
- People are the foundation for all that we do. Our people are warm, welcoming, and inclusive.
- We welcome applications from everyone, including people with disability, mature age and young job seekers, members of the LGBTIQ+ community, and people from culturally diverse backgrounds. Melbourne Water welcomes and encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
How to apply
Click on the “apply” button and complete the online application form.
Closing date: Tuesday 6 June 2023 at 11:55pm AESTAdvertised:24 May 2023 AUS Eastern Standard TimeClosing:06 Jun 2023 11:55 PM AUS Eastern Standard Time
