Community Liaison Specialist

Central Coast Council is seeking a skilled Community Liaison Specialist to join our Water and Sewer Directorate helping to ensure that the voices of our customers are heard and help influence decisions affecting the delivery of their water and sewer services. In leading stakeholder management efforts, building continuing community relationships, supporting project success, and helping to place the customer at the centre of everything we do, you will be helping to rewrite the future with us!

• Foster customer centricity by helping to place our community at the centre of decision making for Water and Sewer major projects
• Work/ Life Balance - 9 day fortnight with flexible/ hybrid working arrangements 
• Permanent full time position 

About the role

The role of Community Liaison Specialist is to lead strategic communication and stakeholder coordination efforts directly with customers and community that support the successful delivery of water and sewer infrastructure projects and other related programs. 

This role will see you manage ongoing stakeholder relationships by creating structured and customer centric ways to reflect the communities voice throughout Water and Sewer major projects and programs. The role will also assist in crafting responses to public, resident and stakeholder enquiries across various channels, including social media, telephone, and online platforms. 

This position is required to provide quality customer service and create value for the community.

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• A Degree qualification in Communications, Public Relations, Public Participation, Social or Strategic Planning or related field OR demonstrated solid contemporary experience in a similar role combined with ongoing professional development. 
• A current Class C Drivers Licence. 
• Extensive experience in stakeholder management and community engagement programs for a large organisation. 
• Experience working in a highly regulated industry where customers remain at the centre.
• The ability to work in a challenging environment with changing priorities while ensuring quality outcomes and performance.  
• Experience with survey platforms and conducting survey analysis. 

Our position description provides more information for you to learn more about this role.

Other important information

• The commencing salary for this position is up to $92.6k. Central Coast Council also provides progression opportunities for employees to progress up to the maximum salary of $107.7k on completion of assessment of skills and performance plus 12% superannuation 
• We have a permanent full-time role available.
• This role will be able to access a 9 day fortnight.
• We are able to offer hybrid and flexible working conditions for this role - 2 days from home and 3 days onsite.
• This role is located at the Wyong Administration Building.

Council may create an eligibility list from this recruitment process and may utilise this eligibility list to fill other permanent or temporary vacancies.

Extra benefits

At Central Coast Council we provide team members with a range of extras that help them balance their life when they need it. Fitness Passports give access to a range of gyms. Wellbeing leave can be accessed twice a year to tick off something that means something to you - volunteering, health check-ups. And an Employee Assistance Program that offers a range of wellbeing initiatives to help you and your immediate family.

Other extras include:

• Long service leave after 5 years of continuous service
• Free flu vaccination program
• Time provided for you to do annual skin cancer screening, Breast screen and blood donations
• Access to professional development with career development and learning programs through various platforms
• We reward and recognise our staff with our Cheers program
• Novated leasing partnerships. 

Central Coast Council is committed to the goals of equal opportunity employment. We aim to provide a work environment for our employees that fosters equity, diversity and respect.

Council is committed to providing safe environments that protect the physical, emotional, cultural and social wellbeing of children on the Central Coast.

Central Coast Council is ideally located on the northern fringe of Sydney and just an hour's drive from Newcastle, the Central Coast offers one of the best places in Australia to live and work. The Central Coast is one of the fastest growing regions in NSW, the third largest Local Government Area (LGA) in NSW and the 6th Largest LGA in Australia. 

How to apply

To lodge your application, please follow these steps:

1. Answer the on-line questions shown below.
2. Attach your resume 
3. Attach your qualifications and licences.

Once your application is successfully lodged you will receive an automated response sent to your e-mail address. If a response is not received this means that your application has not been successfully submitted and you will need to lodge another application.

If you require assistance to lodge your application please contact our Talent Acquisition team by emailing recruit@centralcoast.nsw.gov.au to discuss what reasonable adjustments you may need. If you are deaf, hearing or speech impaired, you can contact us through the National Relay Service TTY call 133 677 or Speak & Listen 1300 555 727.

Applicants who are selected for interview will be contacted by phone or e-mail. For further instructions please click here. 

You will have the ability to save your application as you go using the 'Save Application' button. You can start an application and return to it later via the automatic follow-up email once you have the time and required information at hand to finalise your application.  

If you don't have access to a computer or electronic device, you can lodge your application at any of Council's Library locations. Pre-book a free 1-hour computer timeslot by contacting your nearest library https://www.centralcoast.nsw.gov.au/libraries/our-branches or ask at the enquiry counter.

We will not accept unsolicited resumes or applications being presented by recruitment agencies.