New year brings new opportunities
The NSW Government’s Office of Local Government recently advised funding for 10 new positions for our organisation under the first round of its Fresh Start Program.
The program funding addresses identified workforce shortages and skill gaps and aims to boost critical workforce numbers within the local government sector, with a focus on new apprentices, trainees and cadets.
For us, this means active recruiting will start in January 2025 for positions including:
- Cadet Building Surveying
- Apprentice Arboriculture
- Cadet Town Planners
- Trainee Water & Wastewater
- Apprentice Parks and Gardens
- Apprentice Civil Construction.
This aligns strongly with our own Grow Our Own trainee program, in which we aim to provide young (and not so young) people the opportunity to live, learn and earn locally.
Grow Our Own shares the same goal of combatting regional skills shortages in both trade and professional areas and building the capacity of AlburyCity and our regional local government sector.
I’m really looking forward to seeing recruitment begin and witnessing the new energy and ideas that inevitably follow when enthusiastic young people join an organisation like ours.
In the lead-up to recruitment beginning, our people have been engaging with our local community organisations, employment agencies and schools to provide further details about these opportunities.
Positions will be advertised via our website from January, or you can contact our Early Careers Mentor Sophia Nesire: sophia.nesire@alburycity.nsw.gov.au for more information.
Working at AlburyCity is not just a job, you're connected to something much bigger.
Every position, every person, every department is here for our community and to make a difference to where we work, live and invest. We're here to learn, to grow, to achieve and to create genuine connections within our community. I encourage you to be the connection.
Frank Zaknich
AlburyCity CEO