Closing Date
WHO WE ARE
ANASINA GRAY-BARBERIO is the new Victorian Greens member of the State Parliament’s Legislative Council, representing the Northern Metropolitan region (replacing Samantha Ratnam).
Anasina is a proud Pasefika woman, who is a passionate advocate for diverse communities in the northern suburbs who are being hit particularly hard by the housing, cost of living and climate crises.
Her new office team will support her in this mission!
Anasina is looking to build an enthusiastic, passionate, positive-minded and outcome-focussed electorate office team, that reflects the diversity of the Northern Metropolitan community it represents.
THE ROLE: CONSTITUENT SUPPORT / COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT ADVISOR
- Engaging with individual constituents in the electorate: responding to emails and calls to Anasina’s office; meetings with constituents; and providing direct assistance, advocacy, and referrals to help them resolve their issues (e.g. public housing, education, health, planning, transport).
- Managing Anasina’s calendar, meetings and appointments - working with Anasina to prioritise commitments.
- Identifying (mapping), engaging and building relationships with key local groups in the constituency: schools, residents groups, multicultural groups, sporting clubs etc.
- Identifying local concerns and issues, and working with the community on local advocacy campaigns to fix these issues e.g. funding for local schools, bicycle infrastructure, pedestrian safety and accessibility for people with disabilities. This may include helping organise events, writing and designing leaflets, petitions, web pages, arranging departmental/stakeholder briefings, writing questions for parliament, and more.
- Developing ‘community outreach’ strategy: actions to proactively engage Anasina’s office with politically disenfranchised and disadvantaged groups to provide support and advocacy.
- Writing to, and arranging regular meetings with key stakeholders on local issues such as government ministers offices, local council representatives, and police.
- Attending local events with the MP.
- Working with other Greens MPs’ offices at the state, federal and local levels to ensure constituents are referred to the right level of government to receive assistance on their matter.
- Providing feedback to Anasina and other team members on areas of major or systemic constituent concern e.g. issues that should be raised in parliament, raised with social and traditional media.
- Occasionally supporting volunteers and interns.
- Supporting communications and policy staff as appropriate (e.g. writing short parliamentary speeches, social media posts, website content etc).
EXPERIENCE
Applicants will ideally have a background working in, or with qualifications related to, government social or community services, including but not limited to social work, community development, local campaigning/organising or advocacy.
Mostly though we are looking for someone passionate about progressive political change and working for Anasina and our movement, which we will prioritise over formal education or qualifications.
We’re committed to diversity and supporting the right person to thrive in this role. For a confidential conversation about this role or the recruitment process, please contact: Georgia Lennon, georgia.lennon@parliament.vic.gov.au using the subject line: Constituent Support / Community Engagement Advisor enquiry via EthicalJobs.
SELECTION CRITERIA
Demonstrated:
- Values Alignment: A commitment to the Greens policies, charter and core values - ecological sustainability, grassroots participatory democracy, social justice and peace and non-violence - and a passion for our movement.
- Outstanding verbal communication and people skills: empathy, listening skills and enthusiasm for working one-on-one with diverse constituents, many with complex issues, including public housing, accessing local services and helping them navigate government departments and agencies.
- Outstanding organisation skills: Self-motivation and the ability to track and manage competing priorities and meet deadlines (both yours and Anasina’s!). We are building a small team and sometimes you will need to work alone.
Extra points for:
- Experience and skills working with multicultural groups, language skills, and cultural awareness including First Nation’s cultural awareness.
- Familiarity with the Northern Metropolitan region, its people and issues.
- Experience and skills in grassroots campaigning on local issues.
TERMS & SALARY
- Part-time to full-time (by negotiation: if working full time some days will likely be paid at casual rates).
- Grade 2.1 of Parliament of Victoria’s electorate officer salary scale: $83,469 (pro rata) plus workload allowance of 4%, a capability payment $1170 (if meet annual criteria) and 11.5% superannuation. With previous experience as an electorate officer you may be eligible to be appointed at a higher level up to grade 2.8 $95,432 (pro-rata).
- Working from home days and from the Brunswick electorate office, and the Victorian Parliament during sitting weeks.
- Family-friendly hours are available, however some out-of-hours work will be required (workload allowance and toil provided).
- Electorate Officers are employees of the Victorian Parliament, employed under the terms and conditions of the Parliament, while directly accountable to the Member in whose electorate they are employed.
- Please note to accept this role you will be required to provide a Working With Children Check (WWCC), National Police Check (NPC) and participate in a 15-minute confirmation interview with the Department of Parliamentary Services.
We’re committed to diversity and supporting the right person to thrive in this role. For a confidential conversation about this role or the recruitment process, including the provision of reasonable accommodations to provide for your application, please contact: georgia.lennon@parliament.vic.gov.au using the subject line: Constituent Support / Community Engagement Advisor enquiry via EthicalJobs.