The City of Stonnington takes in the suburbs of Armadale, Glen Iris, Kooyong, Malvern, Malvern East, Prahran, South Yarra, Toorak and Windsor.
We pride ourselves on supporting our people to achieve and succeed. This creates a work environment that is inclusive, engaging and rewarding. It also means that we can deliver excellent service and programs to the community, to help it develop and grow.
We pride ourselves on supporting our people to achieve and succeed. This creates a work environment that is inclusive, engaging and rewarding. It also means that we can deliver excellent service and programs to the community, to help it develop and grow.
We want our staff to enjoy their work by having a positive culture, support to grow their skills and workplace benefits.
Enjoy coming to work each day knowing the work you do has a positive impact and changes lives – and that you are surrounded by people who feel the same way.
To support employee growth, we offer acting arrangements, secondments, and educational assistance. We’re committed to leadership development and support and encourage professional memberships, networking, and conference attendance.
Our recognition programs and celebrating success days will acknowledge your achievements, and you will benefit from competitive salaries and annual Enterprise Agreement salary increases.
We’re committed to reducing our carbon footprint with a dedicated Green Team, free Myki cards for work-related travel and discounted Myki cards through our Commuter Club. We also offer secure bike parking and on-site showers.
It’s important to maintain a balance at work, and we encourage this with a monthly accrued day off, flexible working arrangements and job share arrangements where operationally viable.
We also offer 26 weeks of paid primary caregivers leave and six weeks of paid secondary caregivers leave, as well as access to purchased leave, special leave provisions and long service leave entitlements.
We understand life can be challenging sometimes. We have programs to provide support during these times, including:
Our values are a part of who we are and how we act.
We know that working together means we get better results. We are a team, and together we achieve great things for our community.
Finding better ways to do things and sometimes doing things that haven’t been done before keeps us challenged, inspired and relevant.
We encourage learning and create opportunities for people to grow and succeed for the benefit of our community.
We work hard to achieve great outcomes, and we like how it feels when people stop to say, ‘great job!’ So we strive for excellence and celebrate our success.
We communicate in a respectful, transparent and inclusive manner. Being open and honest in our communications allows us to make better decisions.
We do things the right way for the right reasons. We are responsible and accountable for the work we do and the way we do it.
As a Council employee, you’ll enjoy coming to work each day knowing the work you do has a positive impact and changes lives – and that you are surrounded by people who feel the same way.
To support the growth of employees we offer acting arrangements in higher-level roles and secondments in other areas. We have an extensive learning and development program with regular training sessions offered in house, we support external learning and training and we offer financial assistance for tertiary qualification studies. We’re committed to the development of our staff and support and encourage development opportunities.
Our recognition programs and celebrating success days acknowledge the achievements of our staff.
We’re committed to reducing our carbon footprint, with a dedicated Green Team, free Myki cards for work-related travel and discounted Myki cards through our Commuter Club. We also offer secure bike parking, on-site showers, electric bikes for travelling to external meetings or other sites and we also have composting bins and our own fruit and veggie garden. We run regular meetings to gain input from staff across the organisation on sustainable ideas, have lunch and learn sessions, run waste-free events, and our buildings now have solar panels installed.
It’s important to maintain a balance at work, and we encourage this with a monthly accrued day off for our full-time roles, flexible working arrangements, working from home and job share arrangements where operationally viable.
We understand life can be challenging sometimes which is why we have an award-nominated wellbeing program which offers lunchtime Pilates sessions, annual fitness programs, heavily discounted aquatic and gym memberships, healthy mind and wellbeing events, healthy picnics, mediation sessions and programs. Our employees’ health, both physical and mental is our top priority and as part of our wellbeing program, we offer a free employee assistance/counselling program and peer support. We offer discounted aquatic and gym memberships, a corporate health insurance plan, opportunities to join our active social club.
The City of Stonnington is committed to being a child-safe organisation. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to an equitable, diverse and socially inclusive work environment and a positive, barrier-free recruitment process. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of application.
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These committees give young people the opportunity to: learn about the performing arts industry and local government; receive mentoring from musicians, event managers and artists; gain experience and skills in event planning and management; add their committee experience to their resume; meet new people; receive free training and free entry to all events; plan fun and awesome events for you and your friends
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Body Basics is a recreational and fitness program that provides opportunities for young people aged 12 to 21. Participants experience a range of fitness and recreational activities in a safe and fun environment. If you are interested in being part of Body Basics, register your interest here. For further information contact youth@stonnington.vic.gov.au or 03 8290 7020.
Art Club in an online art program which is facilitated by artist Lucy Hotchin. This is a space for young people to come together and make time to work on their own art projects while connecting with others & learning about different art forms.
If you are interested in being part of Art Club, register your interest here. For further information contact youth@stonnington.vic.gov.au or 03 8290 7020.
Stonnington Youth Services are providing free employment support for young people aged 14 to 25 via an employment support group program and one-to-one support.
Job Club starts on Thursday 19 August and will run weekly in person or online pending restrictions.
For further information contact Kate on 0417 117 831 or khalstea@stonnington.vic.gov.au or register your interest here.
The City of Stonnington is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing an inclusive, welcoming and supportive environment for all.
We aspire to be a leading local government authority with a diversified, inclusive and engaged workplace culture. This means respecting individual differences – and using these differences to strengthen our business. Having a diverse workforce means we can improve our organisational capability to solve problems, meet the needs of our increasingly diverse municipality and better develop and deliver services to our community.
Our internal news platform helps us acknowledge and celebrate events like International Day of People with Disability and World Autism Awareness Day.
We use this platform to promote training and development for our workforce such as disability awareness training, as part of our Diversity Confidence Program, Autism Awareness Training and YouMeUs – online training to promote the understanding of differences in the community, challenge public perceptions of stereotypes, highlight the abilities of people with a disability and support the development of inclusive communities.
The City of Stonnington is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing an inclusive, welcoming and supportive environment for all.
We aspire to be a leading local government authority with a diverse, inclusive and engaged workplace culture. This means respecting individual differences including age, ability, language, appearance, family responsibility, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation and more, and using these differences to strengthen our business. Having a diverse workforce means we can improve our organisational capability to solve problems, meet the needs of our increasingly diverse municipality and better develop and deliver services to our community.
Stonnington sits on the land of the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. We acknowledge that Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Peoples are the Traditional Custodians of this land and have strived to retain their identity and cultures through more than two hundred years of dispossession and colonisation.
Our Reconciliation Action Plan has been developed in consultation with local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and Traditional Owners, as well as the wider community. The Reconciliation Action Plan will allow us to embed our long-term reconciliation initiatives into our broader business strategy.
Our vision for Reconciliation is for a united Australia where the cultures and values of Australia’s First People are understood and respected. Our hope is for an Australia where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People have equal access to, and opportunities for, education, employment and health care.
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