The City of Charles Sturt is proud to launch its 2025 Graduate Program - an opportunity to free your degree and kickstart your career with one of South Australia’s most progressive and community-focused councils. This 24-month program offers meaningful, real-life experience, professional development, and a valuable foundation for pursuing a career in local government. We want courageous graduates who are ready to make a difference so we can continue to shape an inclusive, progressive workforce. Grow your career and help shape the future of our community - right here at the City of Charles Sturt. About the role: You’ll be embedded within the Engaged Community Division and take part in structured rotations across key portfolios, partnering with community development specialists, customer experience experts, unique design and marketing professionals and more. The Engaged Community Division plays a vital role in fostering connection, wellbeing, and inclusion across our City. The Division delivers a diverse range of services and programs to support informed, healthy, and connected communities. From delivering vibrant events, to engaging our community on social media and ensuring our community’s health and safety, the Engaged Community Division works collaboratively to enhance people’s lives through genuine human connection, excellence in service and placing customers at the heart of everything we do. You will contribute to real projects aligned with your field of study, organisational priorities, and community outcomes. The structure is flexible, allowing each graduate’s journey to reflect their interests, capabilities, and the evolving needs of the organisation. This immersive approach ensures you develop a deep understanding of local government operations while building the skills and confidence to grow a successful and impactful career. About You: We are seeking a progressive and well-rounded graduate to join our team. If you are excited by the opportunity to research, analyse, create and publish to foster positive change, in a diverse organisation with real people, we want to hear from you. You will be: A polished communicator with creative ideas Able to support with design, engagement and project work Confident in survey design & research Curious to explore data & analytics A curious and comprehensive researcher Eager to build stakeholder engagement skills Have successfully completed a tertiary qualification in Politics, Law, Justice, and Humanities or Social Sciences About Our Organisation: The City of Charles Sturt is a vibrant community home to around 130,000 people across 105 different cultures. We champion unity in diversity and strive to reflect our community within our workforce - wherever you are from, you are home in the City of Charles Sturt. We prioritise customer and employee experience and a supportive environment where everyone belongs. With over 500 employees, our people and our community "Means the World" to us which highlights the importance of our places, our people and our service to the community. The Detail: A graduate employee will enjoy: A full-time, fixed-term contract for a period of two years Starting salary from $83,707.85 per annum Superannuation Annual Leave Loading, including personal leave and annual leave too The chance to be part of one of the most creative teams in Council! To be considered for this opportunity, you must have unrestricted work rights in Australia for the duration of this contract. Click ‘Apply for this job’ to submit your application for this vacancy by, 5.00pm, Friday 10th October 2025 . Provide us with your resume, as well as answering the following questions: Why the City of Charles Sturt? What would you bring as a graduate? What are you hoping to gain from participating in the graduate program? For further information about this opportunity, please view the attached position description. Enquiries about this position may be made to the following: Candie Trimboli, People & Culture ctrimboli@charlessturt.sa.gov.au 8408 1508 Position Description - Engaged Community Graduate
