Start your leadership journey with ALDI! From driving sales, to serving customers and supervising staff, our Duty Store Managers always lead from the front.

Your purpose is ensuring our store runs smoothly during your shift. You'll be supporting and guiding team members, handling customer inquiries and working collaboratively as part of the store management team. All the while, you'll be honing your leadership skills and truly making a difference for your team and our customers.

The specifics? Here's what you’ll be doing:

• Opening and closing the store and supervising shifts
• Offering feedback to the team that's clear, constructive, and inspiring
• Assisting in training and onboarding team members
• Being a customer service superstar and serving customers at the registers with a smile
• Keeping shelves stocked with products so that our customers can find all their favourites
• Keeping a keen lookout for any incidents or hazards to keep everyone safe

• Permanent, Full-time
• $123,766.93 to $137,491.06 p/a plus Superannuation, plus vehicle allowance of up to $13,000 p/a
• Leadership role within our Waste & Sustainability team

Hume City Council is one of Australia’s fastest growing and culturally diverse councils. We put the customer and our community at the centre of all that we do, ensuring our services are efficient and accessible.

Part of the Waste and Sustainability department, the Resource Recovery Centres and Closed Landfills unit manages the environmental compliance, remediation, and rehabilitation of Council’s closed landfills, in addition to managing the operations of Council’s two Resource Recovery Centres. 

What you’ll be doing:

• Provide effective leadership and management of the Landfills and Resource Recovery Centres unit, to engage and motivate employees to demonstrate organisational values aligned behaviour, and to optimally achieve service standards. 
• Develop leadership skills within the unit, maximising the contribution of senior staff, supervisors, team leaders and employees.
• Coordinate, lead, and maximise the performance of the Landfills and Resource Recovery Centres unit by participating in in the induction, recruitment, performance management and training (internal and external) of employees, including effectively and proactively performing as a member of Waste and Sustainability leadership group.
• Coordinate, develop and oversee the services delivered by the Landfills and Resource Recovery Centres unit, including closed landfill environmental monitoring and compliance, and Resource Recovery Centre operations including customer service, resource recovery, material handling and transport, recycled goods store (tip shop) operations. 
• Coordinate the unit’s senior staff, including the Operations Supervisor and Team Leaders, to maintain a high level of customer service, and to resolve service delivery issues pertaining to Landfills and Resource Recovery Centre services.
• Coordinate, plan, develop, and implement relevant actions from Council’s strategic documents, including the Waste and Resource Recovery Strategy 2022-2030, ensuring the timely achievement of actions and requirements. 
• Actively contribute to the development of the department Business Plan, ensuring the timely and effective delivery of actions related to the activities of the Landfills and Resource Recovery Centres unit. 
• Undertake public consultation, as required, in relation to proposed strategies, policies, works and services within the Landfills and Resource Recovery Centres unit. 
• Ensure the Landfills and Resource Recovery Centres unit is customer focused.
• Develop, implement, and monitor service quality and delivery benchmarks to meet Council and community expectations.
• Develop and manage the Landfills and Resource Recovery Centres unit's budget, including fees and charges, ensuring optimal resource utilisation and financial sustainability. 
• Monitor the financial performance of the Landfills and Resource Recovery Centres unit, including the provision of forecasts, projections, and the development of financial reports.
• Ensure the Landfills and Resource Recovery Centres unit operates within an appropriate policy framework, consistent with corporate policies and practices, supporting the delivery of services and programs. 
• Ensure all required compliance reporting, including landfill Annual Reports and responses to Environmental Action Notices and Site Management Orders are completed to the required standard and submitted on-time.

The skills and experience you’ll bring to the role:

• Demonstrated supervisory and leadership skills and ability to manage and lead a diverse team of multi-disciplinary staff, preferably in an operational context within a Local Government environment. 
• Demonstrated experience complying with and working to Occupational Health and Safety regulations, policies, and procedures.
• Experience and working knowledge across a number of functional areas in the waste industry.
• Experience, knowledge and understanding of a range of services disciplines, activities, and delivery within a Local Government environment.
• Lead, mentor, and develop the Landfills and Resource Recovery Centres team.
• Highly developed planning skills, including the ability to develop design and implement standards and policy across a range of activities.
• Well-developed customer service and communication skills, including the ability to communicate clearly with people from a variety of backgrounds. 
• Build strong partnerships with internal and external customers to understand their needs and expectations.

Required Certifications & Qualifications:

• Tertiary qualifications in engineering, environmental science, management, or a related discipline with relevant experience working in the field.
• Current driver’s licence (experience driving light vehicles off-road/at landfills preferred).

Why Hume City Council?

A leader in local government, we’re committed to creating an inclusive and collaborative work environment that is guided by our values:

We’re better, every day: We give things a go and value progress over perfection. We have permission to go for it and are expected to reflect and learn.

We’re in it together: At Hume, everyone matters. We Welcome and include all. Respect and safety are expected.

We show up: We empower and trust others and own our work. We rise to the challenges and are expected to do what we say we will.

All for Hume: We strive to achieve our best for the Hume Community. We are proud and passionate about working towards better outcomes and expect they are at the centre of everything we do.

We offer a competitive salary package, professional development opportunities, and a supportive work environment.

A child safe organisation and an equal opportunity employer. Council encourages people of all ages, people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people from culturally diverse backgrounds to apply.

All candidates will be required to undertake background and probity checks including Reference Checks, Working with Children Check, and a Criminal Record Check. #LI-Hybrid

• Permanent, Full-time
• $107,811.66 per annum plus Superannuation
• Join the Family Youth and Children team

Hume City Council is one of Australia’s fastest growing and culturally diverse councils. We put the customer and our community at the centre of all that we do, ensuring our services are efficient and accessible.

Manage the provision of early childhood services within a region, to provide viable, high-quality services that comply with legislative and capacity requirements.

What you’ll be doing:

• Provide high-level management of services in a region to ensure they operate efficiently, cost effectively, and contribute to a robust quality early years’ service system. The services include 3- and 4-year-old Preschool, Long Day Child Care and Occasional Care.
• Ensure adherence to performance and outcome targets and indicators and compliance with internal and external reporting requirements.
• Work in collaboration with other members of the Family, Youth and Children’s Services Leadership Team to contribute to the identification and implementation of strategic directions and achievement of goals and actions identified in the whole Family, Youth and Children’s Services Department portfolio areas.
• Support the development of systems, policies, procedures, and practice guidelines and, within a region, ensure implementation, compliance, and consistency of practice. 
• Provide leadership and support to Regional Team Leader/s, implement strategic planning objectives, and establish frameworks for staff development and performance.
• Foster a commitment to a customer service culture, ensuring high standards of communication and cooperation within the unit and emphasises shared accountability for satisfying recipient needs.
• Provide opportunities for families to participate in service planning activities in a manner that is valued and recognises individual family needs, relationships, and cultural backgrounds.
• Work as a member of the Family, Youth and Children’s Services Leadership Team and the broader organisation to design appropriate change management and implementation plans in response to the early years reform agenda timelines and critical milestones.
• Support the implementation of Child Safe Standards, information sharing processes and initiate Reportable Conduct investigation processes.

The skills and experience you’ll bring to the role:

• Demonstrated ability to comply with relevant legislation, government policies, guidelines and standards related to Family Youth and Children’s Services.
• High level liaison and collaboration skills, to support, influence and gain cooperation and maintain effective partnerships and networks. 
• Ability to deal with complex and difficult situations and the ability to liaise and collaborate with counterparts in own organisation and in other organisations to resolve specialist problems.
• A conceptual understanding of the theory and practice in early childhood development and service provision. 
• Working knowledge of the relevant legislations pertaining to the field of Early Childhood. 
• Working knowledge of, and ability to administer the Quality systems (such as National Quality Standards) and process.
• Sound knowledge of Commonwealth and State funding agreements.
• Demonstrated experience in developing and implementing policy, strategies, and programs relevant to young children and families.

Required Certifications & Qualifications: 

• A degree and several years’ experience in Early Childhood Development or a diploma qualification with extensive relevant experience.

Why Hume City Council?

A leader in local government, we’re committed to creating an inclusive and collaborative work environment that is guided by our values:

We’re better, every day: We give things a go and value progress over perfection. We have permission to go for it and are expected to reflect and learn.

We’re in it together: At Hume, everyone matters. We Welcome and include all. Respect and safety are expected.

We show up: We empower and trust others and own our work. We rise to the challenges and are expected to do what we say we will.

All for Hume: We strive to achieve our best for the Hume Community. We are proud and passionate about working towards better outcomes and expect they are at the centre of everything we do.

We offer a competitive salary package, professional development opportunities, and a supportive work environment.

A child safe organisation and an equal opportunity employer. Council encourages people of all ages, people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people from culturally diverse backgrounds to apply.

All candidates will be required to undertake background and probity checks including Reference Checks, Working with Children Check, and a Criminal Record Check. #LI-Hybrid

• Permanent, Full time
• $123,766.93 per annum plus Superannuation
• Join the Finance team

Hume City Council is one of Australia’s fastest growing and culturally diverse councils. We put the customer and our community at the centre of all that we do, ensuring our services are efficient and accessible.

Ensure the accurate and timely preparation of annual financial statements in accordance with Australian accounting standards and local government regulations, while maintaining the integrity of financial assets and overseeing a robust internal audit process.

What you’ll be doing:

• Development of the Annual Financial Statements in accordance with Australian accounting standards and local government regulations.
• Liaise with the internal auditor - accountability to effectively communicate and collaborate with the internal auditor, while also taking responsibility for investigating and implementing recommended improvements in internal control processes. This includes analysing audit findings, developing action plans, and ensuring their implementation to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of internal controls.
• Responsible for providing a comprehensive audit trail, documenting all actions taken, and verifying the quality of the implemented improvements.
• Developing the long-term capital works budget for the organisation.
• Accounting for Developer Contributions and acquitting the developer contributions against the capital works expenditure.
• Maintaining the integrity of the financial assets within the asset management system.
• Preparation of the quarterly financial Capital works reports
• Maintain the long-term budget model.
• Knowledge and understanding of implementing personnel practices and staff development schemes, whilst contributing to long term staffing strategies.

The skills and experience you’ll bring to the role:

• Responsibility in policy formulation with well-developed analytical, investigative and system problem solving skills. Essentially obtaining the ability to consider potential risks, benefits and trade-offs associated with each policy option.
• Excellent computer skills including proficiency in the application of Excel to obtain data from a mainframe system for manipulation in a networked PC environment.
• Skills and knowledge of management reporting procedures and processes including the preparation of monthly reports.
• Ability to adapt communication style to different individuals and situations in order to lead, motivate and develop others.
• Networking abilities to cultivate professional connections and alliances including the capacity to identify stakeholder needs and expectations, decide the appropriate action and respond accordingly.
• Assessing critically diverse alternatives, considering their potential outcomes, risks, and implications. The incumbent must navigate complex scenarios and synthesise information to produce well-informed recommendations.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and consult with senior management, team leaders and staff at all levels including external stakeholders, to achieve organisational outcomes and solve specialist problems.
• Ability to gain the cooperation of and establishing positive working relationships with Managers, Supervisors, peers, and stakeholders, including facilitation and leadership skills to deliver organisational outcomes.
• A knowledge of the operations and requirements of Local Government accounting is highly desirable.

Required Certifications & Qualifications: 

• Tertiary qualifications in the field of accounting, commerce, or a related discipline with substantial practical experience in a similar environment.
• CPA/CA qualified

Why Hume City Council?

A leader in local government, we’re committed to creating an inclusive and collaborative work environment that is guided by our values:

We’re better, every day: We give things a go and value progress over perfection. We have permission to go for it and are expected to reflect and learn.

We’re in it together: At Hume, everyone matters. We Welcome and include all. Respect and safety are expected.

We show up: We empower and trust others and own our work. We rise to the challenges and are expected to do what we say we will.

All for Hume: We strive to achieve our best for the Hume Community. We are proud and passionate about working towards better outcomes and expect they are at the centre of everything we do.

We offer a competitive salary package, professional development opportunities, and a supportive work environment.

A child safe organisation and an equal opportunity employer. Council encourages people of all ages, people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people from culturally diverse backgrounds to apply.

All candidates will be required to undertake background and probity checks including Reference Checks, Working with Children Check, and a Criminal Record Check. #LI-Hybrid

• Fixed term contract for 7 months, Full time
• $97,099.24 per annum plus Superannuation
• Join the Strategic Communications and Advocacy team

Hume City Council is one of Australia’s fastest growing and culturally diverse councils. We put the customer and our community at the centre of all that we do, ensuring our services are efficient and accessible.

Provide strategic advice and support across the organisation to ensure that Council’s communications are appropriate, branded, relevant and targeted, and achieve the strategic objectives of Hume City Council.

What you’ll be doing:

•  Contribute to the development and delivery of communications plans to raise awareness and inform our community about Council’s services, programs, projects, initiatives, and events.

• Provide strategic communications for key decisions of the Council.
• Support the development, execution, and evaluation of strategic communications campaigns.
• Support the development of high-level strategic communications advice for senior decision-makers on key issues, policy matters and implementation priorities to support Council objectives.
• Provide trusted advice and thought leadership to the Coordinator, Strategic Campaigns and Manager, Strategic Communications on a range of issues.
• Support the strategic review of Council’s communications tools and recommend and implement changes to ensure that they are engaging, innovative, targeted, appropriate, and cost-effective. 
• Participate in local, regional, and state networks/organisations to keep up to date with current communications trends, practices, and requirements.
• Support the development of strategic reports and conduct key stakeholder briefings on high-risk issues to enhance the reputation of Council.
• Develop high-level narratives, ensuring strong and consistent key messaging across all strategic communications activities.
• Provide specialist writing and editing for a range of communications materials and channels that are tailored for various external and internal audiences and stakeholders.

The skills and experience you’ll bring to the role:

• Ability to gain cooperation and assistance from people with diverse backgrounds and cultures, both within and external to the organisation, to achieve the objectives of this position.
• Ability to communicate effectively and consult in a socially and politically sensitive environment.
• Ability to plan, research, develop, implement, and evaluate communications strategies.
• Specialist written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to write in a clear, concise, and understandable manner as appropriate for multiple formats including online and digital communication and social media.
• Proficiency in project managing the production of customer communication materials in a corporate environment for a wide range of audiences.
• A strong understanding of local, state, and federal government and experience working in a political environment.

Required Certifications & Qualifications:

• Tertiary qualifications and/or substantial demonstrated experience in communications, public relations, marketing, emergency management communications or a similar field.
• A current driver’s licence.

Why Hume City Council?

A leader in local government, we’re committed to creating an inclusive and collaborative work environment that is guided by our values:

We’re better, every day: We give things a go and value progress over perfection. We have permission to go for it and are expected to reflect and learn.

We’re in it together: At Hume, everyone matters. We Welcome and include all. Respect and safety are expected.

We show up: We empower and trust others and own our work. We rise to the challenges and are expected to do what we say we will.

All for Hume: We strive to achieve our best for the Hume Community. We are proud and passionate about working towards better outcomes and expect they are at the centre of everything we do.

We offer a competitive salary package, professional development opportunities, and a supportive work environment.

A child safe organisation and an equal opportunity employer. Council encourages people of all ages, people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people from culturally diverse backgrounds to apply.

All candidates will be required to undertake background and probity checks including Reference Checks, Working with Children Check, and a Criminal Record Check. #LI-Hybrid

• Permanent Part-time minimum of 15 hours per week based on 4-5 days of availability Mon-Fri (Multiple positions)
• $69,746 per annum (pro rata) plus Superannuation
• Join the Community Health & Wellbeing Team

Hume City Council is one of Australia’s fastest growing and culturally diverse councils. We put the customer and our community at the centre of all that we do, ensuring our services are efficient and accessible.

The Direct Care Worker position works with clients and their carers to achieve their identified goals, enhance independence, optimise quality of life and help them to continue to live their lives the way they choose.

The role provides support to clients in the areas of domestic assistance, respite care, personal care, in a respectful, flexible, and client-centred manner.  

Direct Care Workers assist clients within their homes and in the community and will be working both autonomously and in a team environment.

We deliver services under the Home and Community Care Program for Younger People (HACC PYP), Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP), and Home Care Package (HCP) Services to assist eligible clients.

What you’ll be doing:

• Direct Care Work: This role involves performing various tasks, often related to assisting individuals in their homes. This includes:

• Household tasks such as assisting with light house cleaning, laundry, mopping, vacuuming, and maintaining a safe living environment.
• Providing Transport support such as assisting with shopping or attending appointments.
• Personal Care such as helping with hygiene support, bathing and dressing.
• Light Meal Preparation.
• Supporting independence and safety including monitoring the wellbeing of clients.
• Proving Respite care within the community or in the home, allowing caregivers to take a break from their caring responsibilities.

The skills and experience you’ll bring to the role:

• Knowledge of the issues confronting people who are aged and/or people with disabilities in their home or in the community.
• Ability to foster positive and respectful relationships with clients, respecting cultural values, beliefs and individual choices.
• Ability to establish and maintain positive working relationships with clients and their families and be responsive to their needs.
• Good communication skills and ability to gain the confidence of clients.
• Excellent customer service skills where the clients’ best interests are the focus.
• Ability to adapt and respond effectively to the evolving needs of clients.

Required Certifications & Qualifications:

• Completion of Certificate III in Individual Support (previously Aged Care or HACC)
• Current Level 2 First Aid Certificate or wiling to obtain.
• Current full Australian Driver’s Licence and access to a reliable, registered, comprehensively insured vehicle.

For any enquiries, please contact Judy Leonard on [email protected]. position, for this position please click in the “Apply” button below.

Why Hume City Council?

A leader in local government, we’re committed to creating an inclusive and collaborative work environment that is guided by our values:

We’re better, every day: We give things a go and value progress over perfection. We have permission to go for it and are expected to reflect and learn.

We’re in it together: At Hume, everyone matters. We Welcome and include all. Respect and safety are expected.

We show up: We empower and trust others and own our work. We rise to the challenges and are expected to do what we say we will.

All for Hume: We strive to achieve our best for the Hume Community. We are proud and passionate about working towards better outcomes and expect they are at the centre of everything we do.

We offer a competitive salary package, professional development opportunities, and a supportive work environment.

A child safe organisation and an equal opportunity employer. Council encourages people of all ages, people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people from culturally diverse backgrounds to apply.

All candidates will be required to undertake background and probity checks including Reference Checks, Working with Children Check, and a Criminal Record Check along with answering the mandatory application questions.