Senior Arts & Place Officer

Help us to bring vibrant creative and cultural projects to life, where your skills in arts, events and place activation will shape our city's future.

About us:The City of Belmont is a Tier 1 council that proudly offers its residents and visitors facilities, services, events, spaces and plans for the future, enabling the community to live, work and play in healthy, efficient, safe and sustainable ways. The City of Belmont boasts spectacular views of the Swan River, proximity to the Perth Central Business District, has state-of-the-art facilities at the Belmont Library and Museum Hub, plentiful multipurpose parks, and includes Perth Airport’s Domestic and International terminals within its boundaries.The City of Belmont offers employees free onsite parking, easy access to public transport, great end-of-trip facilities, purchased leave, a co-contribution to superannuation and other great employee benefits.

About the role:

• Be part of our efforts to bring vibrant creative and cultural projects to life, where your skills in arts, events and place activation will shape our city’s future, making a lasting impact on our community.
• Consulting with the Coordinator Arts and Place, the focus of this role is to take the lead on the development, coordination, promotion and evaluation of the City’s annual calendar of community events and activations.
• With the assistance from the Arts & Place Officers, lead in the planning, delivery and evaluation of relevant arts and culture activities including community events, place activations,  creative  programs.
• Oversee the day-to-day activities of the Arts & Place Officers to ensure that the appropriate service levels are maintained to effectively meet operational needs and performance targets.
• Whilst maintaining a comprehensive database of performers, artists and creative and cultural organisations. You will also conduct evaluations, close out processes for each community event, activation and program. Analysing the events attendance and finalising budgets.

About You:To succeed in this role, you will be in possession of, or progressing towards the appropriate qualification. Have significant relevant experience in arts & events management, with exposure to marketing and or the public relations field.Previous relevant experience in the preparation of Risk Management Plans and working within the confines of and obtaining statutory licences for events.

• Ability to respond appropriately and show initiative in difficult situations.
• Ability to supervise staff to achieve agreed outcomes.
• Highly developed interpersonal and conflict resolution skills.
• Well-developed research and written communication skills.
• Effectively prioritise multiple projects with well-developed organisational and administrative skills.

If this sounds like you and you meet the essential criterial listed in the position description, we welcome your application.