• Permanent Full Time | 9 day fortnight
• $117,991 - $125,339pa + 12% super (level 7)
• 72.5 hour fortnight
• Hybrid, flexible working environment, including some work from home days.
• Location: Strathpine / Narangba

Join City of Moreton Bay in our Corporate Communications team, and help inform and enhance our communities for today and tomorrow.

We are excited to be on the search for this this key role that will focus on managing and developing the preparation, delivery and promotion of a range of large-scale evidence-based behaviour change strategies.

This role is ideal for a strategic communicator who understands human behaviour, thrives on translating complexity into clear, motivating messages and wants their work to make a visible, measurable difference.

Partnering with our Waste and Resource Recovery team, you will be the senior marketing strategist that will help drive key messages out to the greater community and measuring the effectiveness of those campaigns. You'll:

• Lead integrated marketing communications and behaviour change campaigns - ?Provide strategic leadership for multi-stage, multi-channel behaviour change campaigns across, setting the direction for messaging, behavioural prompts and audience strategy to drive measurable community behaviour change aligned with Council’s long-term waste and net-zero objectives.
• Lead the development and delivery of high-impact communications and media strategies for major waste programs including Garden Organics and recycling behaviour change initiatives ensuring integrated, insight-driven campaigns that increase participation, reduce contamination and strengthen public trust.
• Build and maintain strong, collaborative relationships with internal teams, executive leadership, agencies, and key stakeholders, providing expert direction and strategic oversight to ensure coordinated campaign delivery, consistent messaging and effective community engagement.
• Review, measure and leverage insights, behavioural data, contamination trends and service analytics to shape marketing and communication strategies, ensuring campaigns are targeted, evidence-based and evaluated for impact, efficiency and continuous improvement.
• Champion a collaborative, high-performance culture by sharing achievements, enhancing cross-team alignment that celebrates program milestones, reinforce organisational priorities and strengthen staff engagement.

You don't need to be a waste minimisation expert, but will bring a genuine interest to make a difference in this space through applying your behaviour change experience. A really opportunity to make a positive impact towards real-world environmental outcomes across a diverse and growing population.

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This role is known internally as Senior Behaviour Change Specialist

About you

To be a success in this role you will be an experienced marketing and communications professional and bring experience in leading the design, implementation and evaluation of effective behaviour change strategies, projects and campaigns.

You will be an exceptional communicator, with the proven ability to influence outcomes and effectively deliver messages to a diverse stakeholder group and audience.

With a passion for this topic, paired with extensive knowledge in applying innovative marketing and communication strategies, tactics and technologies to achieve identified goals and influence behaviour, you will quickly become a valuable member of our team.

Why City of Moreton Bay?

What you do with your life matters. It’s the same with your career.

We’re the third-largest council in Australia and one of the fastest-growing areas. As Australia’s newest city, we’re building something that’s never been done before: a new kind of city, inspired and empowered by a new kind of council.

This is your opportunity to develop skills and experience in a truly unique place, at a truly unique point in time.

At City of Moreton Bay, we’re focused on the vital work we do today. But we’re also focused on the future. On what can be – for our city, our Council and your career.

Here’s what you’ll love about a career with us:

• See it. To build a city of the future, first, you have to see it. The polycentric city we’re building will bring greater prosperity, sustainability and affordability to our city. This is your chance to contribute to something that’s never been done before.
• Shape it. You’ll get hands-on in a rewarding career, serving and strengthening our communities for today and tomorrow. Our work is diverse, interesting and it matters – and it’s yours to shape and own.
• Live it. Contribute to the city you and your family want to live in and enjoy the lifestyle you deserve. And if you don’t live here, you’ll still find pride and connection in so many ways with our successful, resilient team.

You’ll also enjoy a range of other benefits:

• Find a better work-life balance with a nine-day (72.5-hour) fortnight, plus a hybrid, flexible working environment with some work-from-home days.
• Negotiated salary increases locked in through our EBA - 4% in July 2026 and a further 4% in July 2027 (or CPI capped at 4.5%, whichever is greater).
• Advance your skills and career through our Study, Training And Research Scheme (STARS).
• Make your pay go further with salary packaging options on novated leases, superannuation payments, smartphones and devices.
• Prioritise your health and wellbeing with discounted health insurance, free annual flu vaccinations and our Fitness Passport Program.
• Get support when you and your family need it most with our 24/7 confidential counselling service, leader support hotline and Mates in Construction program.
• Our Strathpine office has local parking on site and is close to public transport networks, making for an easy commute.

Ready for a career that matters?

Join City of Moreton Bay, and help shape our city of the future.

Click on the 'Apply Now' button below to complete your online application. Please upload a current resume that demonstrates how you meet the requirements for this role.  You will also have the option to add a cover letter should you wish.

As part of the recruitment process, applicants will be required to undergo a National Criminal History Check.

To obtain further details please contact our Careers team at careers@moretonbay.qld.gov.au. 

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City of Moreton Bay extends across the traditional lands of the Jinibara, Kabi Kabi, and Turrbal peoples, and we acknowledge and pay respects to Traditional Custodians. We believe diversity of thought, background and experience creates better outcomes for our people and communities, and we strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people of all ages, genders, abilities and cultural backgrounds.