Waste Education Coordinator | Full-time Temporary with a Possibility of Permanency

Australian Capital Territory; Canberra; Hybrid; AUD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

ACT NoWaste is seeking a Waste Education Coordinator to deliver administration and engagement activities supporting the Waste Education and Partnerships team in the ACT. The role involves coordinating events, bookings, and presenting information to the public.

You will provide responsive customer service, manage inquiries, and assist with content creation for education materials, while handling procurement and stock management in a busy public-facing environment.

Qualifications

• Current Driver’s licence required.
• First Aid Certificate or ability to obtain one.

Responsibilities

• Assisting with the implementation of waste education activities, including venue bookings and engaging with the general public at presentations and event information stands.
• Applying high quality and responsive customer service to community and stakeholders.
• Assisting with the shared customer inbox and hotline, updating FAQs, and preparing responses to resident enquiries.
• Researching and drafting content for waste education materials, such as A-Z Guide web pages.
• Administering tasks for production including financial administration, small procurement and stock management.

Skills

Administration

Community engagement

Customer service

Public-facing role

Event information stands

Job description

Waste Education Coordinator
Full-time Temporary with a Possibility of Permanency

Details: Are you well organised, motivated and experienced in administration or community engagement?

ACT NoWaste is looking for a Waste Education Coordinator to deliver a range of administration and engagement activities to support the Waste Education and Partnerships team.

The role will include:

• assisting with the implementation of waste education activities, including venue bookings, and engaging with the general public at presentations and event information stands.
• applying high quality and responsive customer service to community and stakeholders.
• assisting with the shared customer inbox and hotline, updating frequently asked questions, and preparing responses to resident enquiries.
• Researching and drafting content for waste education materials, such as A-Z Guide web pages.
• administering various tasks for production including financial administration, small procurement and stock management.

If you love being in a public-facing role where you have the opportunity to bring your administration expertise, then this role could be for you!

We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where people with diverse thoughts, lived experience, and perspectives can thrive and contribute their unique talents to the ACTPS and ACT community. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people with culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, veterans, younger and older workers, and people with diverse genders, sexes and sexualities to apply.

Eligibility/Other requirements:

• This position is required to work in a public-facing role in the ACT delivering community engagement activities.
• This position requires a current Driver’s licence.
• This position requires a First Aid Certificate or the ability to obtain one.

Notes: This is a temporary position available immediately for six months with the possibility of extension for up to less than 11 months and/or permanency. An order of merit will be established from this selection process and may be used to fill future identical vacancies over the next 12 months. This position will be in a workplace designed for activity-based working (ABW). Under ABW arrangements, officers will not have a designated workstation/desk. Opportunities for flexible working options could include hybrid working, being a combination of working from home, designated office based and FlexiSpace working locations across the ACT, flexible start, and finish times.

Note: Under the ACTPS employment framework you may be placed in another role where required for the efficient administration of the service.

Where an offer of employment is for a fixed-term period, any related temporary contracts within the Territory will be issued in compliance with the requirements and applicable exceptions outlined in the Fair Work Act.

The ACT public service is committed to closing the gap, underpinned by the belief that when Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have a genuine say in the design and delivery of policies, programs and services that affect them, better life outcomes are achieved. More information can be found here ACT Closing the Gap Implementation Plan - ACT Government Transparency Portal .

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Note

This is a temporary position available immediately for six months with the possibility of extension for up to less than 11 months and/or permanency.