Working at the City of Canada Bay Council

The City of Canada Bay Council has approximately 290 employees in a variety of full time, part time, job sharing, temporary and contract positions. These positions cover professional, technical, clerical, administrative and operational roles within four departments.

Council employs people in traditional local government positions such as Town Planners and Building Inspectors (now known as Assessment Officers), Environmental Officers, Regulation Inspectors, Cleansing Services, Engineers, Records Officers and Librarians. In addition, we employ people with a full range of business skill sets, across areas including IT, Finance, Customer Service, Human Resources and Public Relations.

We consider equal opportunity a basic principle in our overall operations and all our appointments are strictly based on merit. Council only accepts applications for positions we advertise.

Some roles within Council are covered by the NSW Child Protection (Prohibited Employment) Act 1998, and it is an offence for a person convicted of a serious sex offence to apply for these positions. All employees who work in positions identified as being child-related employment are required to have a "Working with Children" completed prior to commencing employment.

Look for our positions vacant advertisements in a variety of different media, such as the Sydney Morning Herald on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays, local papers as well as on www.seek.com.au and www.mycareer.com.au.