Why work for Sutherland Shire Council
Working for Sutherland Shire Council can help you achieve the right work / life balance, while providing a challenging career path improving the local community.
Work locally
Are you tired of spending the best part of the day commuting? Then save yourself hours by working locally - have time to spend with the family, pursue recreational activities, and achieve a better work/life balance.
Nearly 80% of people living in the Sutherland Shire travel to other areas to work. You do not need to travel elsewhere for quality employment … you can work for your local council!
Make a Difference!
Working with your local council can give you a sense of satisfaction that is not found in the private sector. The work that you do has a direct effect on your local community and environment.
In working for your local council you:
- provide services, facilities and support to others
- protect the community by ensuring the environment is safe and clean
- prevent harm to the community; such as disease, noise and pollution
- plan for the community's future
- represent the people of the community
Broad Career Paths Available
You can develop you career in a range of fields with Sutherland Shire Council. Council employs people from a wide variety of disciplines, allowing you to pursue your chosen career path.
Positions include:
- Librarian
- Carpenter and Joiner
- Pool Attendant
- Regulation Officer
- Gardener
- Environmental Scientist
- Landscape Architect
- Lawyer
- Lifeguard
- Early Childhood Teacher
- Corporate Librarian
- and many more
Family Friendly/ Work/Life Balance
Sutherland Shire Council has a range of policies that make it family friendly, helping you to organise your time to benefit you and your family's needs. Dependent on the position, work/life balance initiatives include flexitime, working from home, job rotation, job share/ part time and casual work, personal leave and study assistance.
Just a few other benefits...
- Sutherland Shire Leisure Centres - corporate membership is available to council staff through weekly salary sacrifice.
- Sutherland Shire Council Employees Credit Union - the credit union provides banking facilities for council employees and their families and provides a range of accounts, loans and other services.
- Sutherland Shire Council Employees Social and Welfare Centre - staff have a social and welfare club approved and subsidised by council and open to membership for all council employees - benefits include social activities, welfare benefits and sickness benefits.
Testimonials
"Nearly 80% of the people who live in the Shire travel to other commercial centres every day to work and maybe they don't realise the opportunities that there are at the council for the sorts of work that they go off to do." - Manager Corporate Development
"Sutherland Shire's a beautiful place with a number of waterways, bushland, and it's good to try and be a part of maintaining that, that reason why a lot of people like to live here." - Environmental Scientist
"well, the council's a very enjoyable place to work, it's flexible. Having a young family it gives me an opportunity to take them to school and see their sports carnivals. It minimises the working day therefore relaxes a lot of leisure time that I enjoy with the family after work, and even during the day as well." - Development Enquiry Officer
"I'm actually studying my Bachelors in Teaching, and with study you have that time to pursue and better yourself in your professional growth." - Early Childhood Teacher
"it fits in well into my uni life, I've got more time to work through the summer where I am given more shifts." - Leisure Centre Pool attendant