Reference number: 12921
Closing date: 11:45pm, Sunday 1 September 2019
Casual position
Availability to work rostered shifts Monday-Sunday, between 7:00am and midnight
$42.00 – $43.83 per hour plus 9.5% superannuation (includes 25% casual loading + 25% special engagement)
About Us
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.
Moonee Valley City Council’s Leisure department aims to support citizens to enhance their emotional and physical health, and to create social capital. The Leisure department has responsibility for planning for services, places and spaces that encourage participation within the areas of; Performing Arts and Culture, Visual Arts and Culture, Festivals and Events, Libraries and Learning, and Leisure Facilities.
The Opportunity
This position will see you working as part of the Technical team at the Clocktower Centre and council facilitated events. The Clocktower Centre is a flagship of arts and cultural activity and consists of a 500 seat theatre, function and meetings rooms, and a café.
You will be responsible for delivering frontline service with regards to technical support, in a mainly live performing arts context, within the City of Moonee Valley’s cultural facilities and outdoor events. Additional duties include:
Contributing to a positive professional culture within the Technical and wider Operations team of the Arts & Culture unit
Ensuring that venue equipment is set-up, used and packed down as per safe working policies and procedures
Operating technical equipment including audio, lighting, mechanical and audio visual equipment
About You
To be successful for this position, you will ideally possess the following:
- Exposure to a live theatre venue in the areas of lighting, sound, stage and flying, and audio visual
- Demonstrated experience with equipment maintenance
- Excellent customer service skills, with the ability to work as part of a team and autonomously
- Availability to work rostered shifts that can occur Monday – Sunday, between 7:00am and midnight
- Current Working With Children Check, or willingness to obtain
What We Offer
At Moonee Valley, our greatest strength is our people. We recruit people who can bring in new ideas and we retain people by allowing them to grow at their own pace, providing training opportunities and offering a safe environment where they will be rewarded for their contributions.
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.
Our Culture of Inclusion
We don’t just accept difference – we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our services and our community. With a focus on inclusion, accessibility and flexibility, we’ll support you at every stage of your career. We recognise the importance of balance and embrace work agility, understanding that this means different things to each and every one of our employees.
Moonee Valley City Council is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Child Safe employer and we value diversity and encourage people from different backgrounds to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds, people of any age or gender, people identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and gender diverse, intersex and/or queer (LGBTIQA+) and people with disability. If you have a reasonable adjustment, support or access requirement, we encourage you to let us know through your application or email hradmin@mvcc.vic.gov.au or call 9243 1122.
Next Steps
If this sounds like an exciting career challenge that aligns with your personal goals and expertise, we want to hear from you!
Applications must be submitted through our online system https://mooneevalley.mercury.com.au/
and should be in line with the Moonee Valley City Council Application Guide found at the bottom of the advertisement. Applications that do not meet these requirements may not be considered.
For further information please view the Position Description or contact Katie Harrigan, Technical Services Supervisor on (03) 9243 8819.
Enquiries: Katie Harrigan
Ph: (03) 9243 8819
Applications Close: 01/09/2019
