Recruitment Officer

Permanent Full Time

Band 5 Salary - $80,810.26 per year plus superannuation

Location: Morwell, Victoria - Hybrid Work Arrangement

Grow your recruitment career while making a genuine community impact.

Are you passionate about connecting great people with meaningful opportunities? Are you looking for a role that will develop your talent acquisition expertise while supporting recruitment across one of Gippsland's largest and most diverse employers.

Latrobe City Council is seeking a proactive and customer-focused

Recruitment Officer to join our Human Resources team. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced talent acquisition professional to further develop their skills in a supportive environment while partnering with leaders across a wide range of services that directly impact our community.

About The Role

As Recruitment Officer, you will coordinate end-to-end recruitment and onboarding activities, provide guidance to Hiring Managers, and contribute to innovative recruitment initiatives, reporting, and process improvements. Working closely with the Talent Acquisition Business Partner, you'll gain valuable experience across attraction, selection, onboarding, employer branding, stakeholder engagement, data analysis and workforce initiatives.

In this role, you will:

• Coordinate end-to-end recruitment and onboarding activities across allocated portfolios.
• Support Hiring Managers with practical recruitment advice and guidance to achieve successful hiring outcomes.
• Deliver a positive and engaging candidate experience throughout the recruitment journey.
• Maintain recruitment data and reporting to support informed decision-making.
• Contribute to recruitment process improvements and service enhancements.
• Support recruitment initiatives that strengthen attraction, engagement and workforce outcomes

About You

You are someone who enjoys building relationships, solving problems and delivering excellent customer service. You are organised, motivated and ready to take the next step in your recruitment career.

You will bring:

• Experience coordinating recruitment and onboarding activities.
• The ability to build trusted relationships with managers and stakeholders.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to balance multiple priorities.
• Sound judgement and problem-solving capability.
• The confidence to interpret and apply recruitment policies, procedures and legislation.
• A commitment to continuous improvement and delivering a positive candidate experience.
• Relevant qualifications and/or experience in recruitment, human resources or a related field.

Successful applicants will be required to apply for and satisfactorily obtain a National Police Check and Working with Children's Check.

Go Further at Latrobe City Council

A career with us begins with a desire to empower and make positive change within our Latrobe City Community. At council you will get stuck into interesting work and experience growth as you see the impact you make unfold right in front of you.

Why work for us?

At Latrobe City Council we are an equal opportunity employer who invests heavily in our employees.

We offer a range of training and Personal Development opportunities including a Structured Leadership Development Program and study assistance.

Our salaries are competitive, and we offer benefits such as salary packaging and access to our health and wellbeing programs.

We want you to join our team and provide the best services possible for a fast-growing regional municipality in the heart of Gippsland.

To apply

Please apply (and submit your responses to the Key Selection Criteria) via the Latrobe City Council website.

Applications close 11.59 pm Thursday 30 July 2026.

Contact

Elle Burt - Talent Acquisition Business Partner on 0409 783 195 for a confidential discussion.

Child Safe Organisation

Latrobe City Council has a zero tolerance to any form of child abuse and is committed to the safety, wellbeing, and empowerment of children. We create and maintain a child safe organisation where protecting children and preventing and responding to child abuse is embedded in the everyday thinking and practice of all employees, volunteers, and contractors. Our recruitment practices reflect this.

Diversity and Inclusion

At Latrobe City Council we value workforce diversity and inclusion, where individual uniqueness is embraced. We value diverse life experiences and the perspectives of our people, whilst providing high-quality services to all members of our community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, religion, cultural background, disability, or sexuality.

At Latrobe City Council we are committed to providing positive employment opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and welcome employment applications from candidates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background. Council's Indigenous Employment Program is available to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent applicants and can be contacted at [email protected] or by calling 1300 367 700.

We at Latrobe City Council strongly encourage people with disability and diverse backgrounds to apply for our roles. If we can assist you with any reasonable adjustments in order to submit your application for this role, please contact the Careers team via email at ***email_hidden*** or call 5128 6113 noting your preferred method of communication and contact details and a member of the team will be in touch.