Local History Officer
Applications Close: 15/03/2024
Work Type: Permanent - Part Time - 38 Hrs Per Fortnight (0.5 FTE)
Premium Recquatic Membership | 12.5% Superannuation
This position is classified as a PACS Band 6 ($80,197 – 85,986 p.a) under the City of Kwinana’s structured remuneration system.
What’s On Offer
An exciting and rewarding opportunity exists for a Local History Officer to join our renowned and high performing Library Services team at the City of Kwinana. This is a part-time position reporting to the Coordinator Library Services and working alongside a superstar team. The primary focus of a Local History Officer is to develop and manage the Local History Collection and assist both internal and external stakeholders to access local history and heritage information and resources.
What You’ll Need
To make an impact as our new Local History Officer you will have…
- Experience in a similar role.
- Ability to establish, maintain and develop a local history collection.
- Excellent communication skills with an ability to provide exceptional customer service and clearly convey messages to a diverse community.
- Excellent time management and organisational skills.
- Highly developed interpersonal skills with the ability to mentor and lead volunteers and staff.
- Ability to coordinate and promote events.
- Tertiary qualifications in library and information Studies, archival studies or a related field and/or substantial experience in a similar related role.
- Current Police Clearance and Driver’s Licence.
- Ability to work after hours or on weekends as needed.
What’s In It For You?
At the City of Kwinana you will enjoy a true work-life balance; with access to flexible working arrangements and a fantastic workplace culture borne from a collaborative team environment.
Other perks include, but are not limited to…
- Competitive salary plus 12.5% superannuation.
- Additional penalty rates for weekend work
- A robust employee wellness program with initiatives designed to support employees' physical and mental wellbeing.
- A generous Celebration and Recognition Policy for employees.
- The opportunity for flexible working arrangements.
- Career development, training opportunities and study support.
- Premium Kwinana Recquatic Centre membership
Want To Know More?
For more information relating to the position, please contact Deborah Merrett, Coordinator Library Services on (08) 9236 4301.
To be considered for this position applicants must submit a statement addressing the above criteria giving specific examples in no more than two (2) pages, along with your cover letter and resume.
What Are You Waiting For?
If you suspect this role might just be the one you’ve been searching for - don’t delay.
Apply now!
We look forward to hearing from you.
Apply online: www.kwinana.wa.gov.au
Applications close: 5.00 PM, Friday 15 March 2024 | APPLY
The City of Kwinana reserves the right to commence recruitment prior to the closing date, and will not accept or consider late applications.
The City of Kwinana promotes and values diversity to create a unique work force. Applicants from diverse backgrounds, such as Aboriginal people, people living with disability or people from different cultural backgrounds are encouraged to apply. The City also strives to be a customer-centric organisation, with the customer at the centre of everything we do. As such, all employees play an important role in helping us to achieve this by ensuring they provide best-practice customer service. The City has the goal of zero harm for its employees, this includes providing a smoke-free environment and minimising exposure to the elements. Conditions of employment are in accordance with the City’s current Enterprise Agreement.
For further information, please contact our Recruitment team on (08) 9236 4618 or (08) 9236 4628.
Please note: As part of the City’s recruitment process, the selected applicant will be required to undergo a pre-employment medical which includes a Drug and Alcohol screen test.
Attachments:
- Application Pack for Advertised Vacancies.PDF
- Position Description - City Life - Community Facilities - Library - Local History Officer - 5268.pdf