From major campaigns to community projects, you'll lead the creative work that brings Georges River Council's stories to life.
The Role
As our Creative Services Lead, you will drive the creative direction, visual identity and design excellence of Georges River Council. Working closely with the Head of Marketing and Brand, you'll help shape how Council communicates with its community through compelling, accessible and brand aligned visual content.
You will lead the development of creative solutions across campaigns, projects and strategic initiatives, ensuring consistency and excellence across all communication channels. As Council's subject matter expert for design and visual communications, you'll provide trusted advice on branding, creative execution and design best practice.
You'll also oversee Council's brand assets, templates and design systems, support the Digital Asset Management framework, and build organisation wide capability through coaching, mentoring and self-service design tools such as Canva.
Acting as the escalation point for complex creative projects, you'll collaborate with internal stakeholders and external creative partners to deliver exceptional outcomes for our organisation and community.
This newly elevated role offers a unique opportunity to influence Council's brand while building creative capability across the organisation.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Leading creative excellence across digital, print, video, signage and campaign assets that connect with our community and bring Council initiatives to life.
- Shaping the future of our brand by partnering with the Head of Marketing and Brand on creative direction, campaigns and strategic projects.
- Providing expert creative advice to stakeholders across the organisation and guiding the delivery of complex, high-profile projects.
- Driving brand consistency by maintaining and evolving the Georges River Council and Discover Georges River visual identities across all channels and touchpoints.
- Creating tools and systems that empower others, including design templates, brand resources and self-service solutions that support organisation-wide communications.
- Building creative capability through coaching, mentoring and training, helping teams confidently deliver brand-aligned content.
- Collaborating with talented creative partners, including designers, photographers, videographers and agencies, to deliver exceptional outcomes for our community.
About You
We're seeking an experienced creative leader who combines strategic thinking, strong design expertise and a passion for building brands that connect with diverse audiences.
You will bring:
- Extensive experience in a senior creative, design or brand management role.
- A degree qualification in Graphic Design, Visual Communication or a related field.
- Advanced Adobe Creative Cloud skills and a strong portfolio of work across digital and print channels.
- Proven experience developing and managing brand guidelines, visual identity systems and creative assets.
- Experience with Canva governance and self-service design frameworks.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to influence and advise across a complex organisation.
- Strong project management capability, with the ability to deliver multiple priorities and deadlines.
- Experience in the use, management and development of a Digital Asset Management system
- A passion for creativity, innovation and developing others through coaching and mentoring.
What We Offer
- Enjoy flexible working options, including flexible start and finish times, hybrid work (after probation), and the option of a 9‑day fortnight by working additional hours across the fortnight
- Permanent full time - 70 hours per fortnight
- Salary from $101,723.29 to $117,859.56 p.a. plus 12% superannuation.
- Access to Fitness Passport for you and your family
- Confidential Employee Assistance Program
- Employee Rewards Program
If you have made a positive commitment to further your career and you possess the attributes detailed in the Position Description essential criteria, then please submit your application today.
Applicants are asked to ensure that they provide responses to the targeted questions. Please be specific about your personal contribution. General or high-level responses will not be considered.
If you would like further information on this role, please contact Christian Schweitzer, Head of Marketing & Brand via
[email protected] or 0457 805 021.
Applications must be completed and submitted via our website. Closing Date: Friday, 17 July 2026 at 11.59 PM AEST.
Offers of employment at Georges River Council are contingent upon satisfactory results of a thorough background check.
Please note you must be an Australian or New Zealand citizen, a permanent resident, or hold unlimited working rights in Australia (no visa restrictions) to apply for this position.
Georges River Council is a progressive, people-focused organisation with 600 dedicated staff delivering exceptional services to our diverse and vibrant community. Our vision is to be 'naturally connected to place, community, and Country'. We are committed to creating accessible green, and liveable spaces, nurturing creativity, protecting the natural environment, and building a thriving local economy.
We foster our values of Accountability, Professionalism, Unity and Honesty and take pride in promoting the image of Council in the community.
We are committed to building a workplace culture that values diversity and inclusion, and welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, workers of all ages, people with disabilities, people who identify as LGBTQIA+ and those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
At Georges River Council we are committed to putting children first and championing child safety within our community. We actively advocate for the rights of children and young people and will uphold our commitment as a child safe organisation.
