Engagement Practitioner

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who has previous local government experience and is passionate about delivering meaningful community consultation. You'll play a key role in supporting engagement projects, building strong stakeholder relationships and ensuring community feedback helps shape important council initiatives.

About the Role As the Community Engagement Practitioner, you will:

• Plan and deliver community engagement activities across a variety of council projects and initiatives.
• Develop engagement plans and consultation approaches tailored to project needs.
• Coordinate online and face-to-face engagement activities, including community events.
• Analyse community feedback and prepare high-quality reports and recommendations.
• Work closely with internal stakeholders and communications teams to deliver effective engagement campaigns.
• Support and maintain digital engagement platforms and online consultation tools.
• Build positive relationships with community members, stakeholders and project teams.
• Ensure engagement activities are delivered in line with best-practice community consultation principles.

Key Skills

• Community consultation.
• Project management.
• Report writing.
• Digital engagement.

About You To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Previous experience working within Local Government in a Community Engagement, Communications or Stakeholder Engagement role.
• Demonstrated experience delivering community consultation projects from planning through to reporting.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to prepare engaging reports and consultation outcomes.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and relationship management skills.
• The ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities within tight timeframes.
• Experience using digital engagement platforms and online consultation tools.
• A relevant qualification in Communications, Community Development, Social Sciences or a related discipline (desirable).
• IAP2 certification or equivalent community engagement experience will be highly regarded.

What's on Offer

• Immediate start available.
• 3-month contract with the potential for extension.
• Opportunity to work within a supportive local government team and contribute to projects that make a genuine impact within the community.

If you're an experienced Community Engagement professional with local government experience and are available to commence in the coming weeks, we'd love to hear from you.