Job Description

Senior Integrated Water Management Officer

Reference number: 11166

Closing date: 11:00pm, Friday 5th June 2026

• Full-Time Permanent role available
• Classified as a Band 7
• RDO available

The Opportunity

Moonee Valley City Council’s Climate and Environment Resilience Team is currently seeking a Senior Integrated Water Management Officer to join a committed and passionate team. This is a great opportunity to get involved in planning for reduced water use, improved water quality and climate change adaptation within our operations and the community.

The Senior Integrated Water Management Officer will be responsible for leading, managing and overseeing Council’s Integrated Water Management Program, ensuring alignment with Council’s strategic directions and relevant local and regional plans and priorities. The role will provide leadership and strategic advice on IWM and Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD), foster strong internal and external partnerships, and support organisational capacity building to strengthen Council’s approach to integrated water management and the ongoing management of IWM/WSUD assets.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a water program with projects related to alternative water sources, health of waterways, including naturalisation, systems to mitigate flood risk and liveable spaces (public spaces that collect, clean recycle water) (subject to Investment Pathway processes).
• Lead the development of municipality-wide scoping and prioritisation of IWM opportunities in alignment with Council’s strategic objectives, and other relevant local and regional plans and priorities.
• Provide specialist knowledge as input to project teams that are focused on WSUD asset design, construction ongoing maintenance and renewal – to help foster internal relationships and support capacity building of other teams across the organisation.
• Provide specialist advice and preparation of reports to Council on climate and environmental resilience and in particular IWM opportunities

About You

To be suitable for this position, you will possess:

• A tertiary qualification in IWM, Engineering, Environmental Management, Environmentally Sustainable Design, Environmental Science, Climate Change or related field, with relevant experience.
• Extensive experience in integrated water management program development and delivery – both strategy/policy and asset development.
• Relevant experience and/or knowledge of the broad range of issues associated with environmental and climate resilience for Local Government.
• Extensive experience in delivering projects from scoping through to implementation, ensuring delivery within greed budget and timeframes.

Next Steps

Applications must be submitted via our online system and in accordance with the Moonee Valley City Council Application Guide. Applications that do not meet these requirements may not be considered.

For further information, please view the or Lucy Brown, Coordinator Sustainability on 0392 431 797.