Marketing And Communications Officer

Description:

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 118,000 residents and over 10,000 businesses.

We recognise the needs of employees with family responsibilities and we want to help them balance their home and work life. Council provides a number of benefits to our staff including generous paid parental and pre-natal leave, carer’s leave, salary sacrifice options, flexible work opportunities, and an alternate model of employment where staff may purchase up to six additional weeks of annual leave.

This position will see you sitting within the Corporate Affairs Department. Working closely with and reporting to the Team Leader Marketing and Communications, you will be assisting to develop and deliver on a range of communications plans and tasks, whilst providing support in implementing the strategic vision for various portfolios across the arts, culture, festivals and events in Moonee Valley.

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

• Developing strategic communications plans for the department’s activities
• Developing and executing public relations and marketing campaigns for Council’s arts, culture, festivals and events
• Preparing copy, images and design for promotional materials
• Coordinating multiple advertising schedules and bookings to maximise reach, engagement and attendance for campaigns
• Developing and distributing media alerts and media releases
• Producing promotional print collateral including posters, postcards and flyers
• Developing design briefs and liaising with Graphic Designers throughout collateral production
• Liaising with various internal and external stakeholders to ensure briefs, deadlines and campaign timelines are met