Golden Plains Shire Council

Golden Plains Shire Council is a vibrant and progressive organisation, conveniently situated between Geelong and Ballarat and just an hour from Melbourne. We offer a diverse range of career opportunities, in areas such as engineering, land use planning, children services, home care, environment management, community development, finance, human resource management, information technology, economic development, marketing, events and more.

Our vision is for ‘A healthy, safe, vibrant, prosperous and sustainable community, supported by strong leadership, transparent governance and community partnerships’. For us this means working hard for our communities to continually improve the quality of life for people who live in, work in, or visit Golden Plains Shire.

We pride ourselves on five pillar values: Honesty and Integrity, Leadership, Accountability, Adaptability and Fairness, and constantly strive to be the very best we can be.

A small rural council, Golden Plains Shire’s population is just over 20,000 people, with our main service centre, Bannockburn, growing by 7.2% per year.

Supporting our 56 diverse communities are hardworking but friendly staff, spread across four directorates, including the Office of the CEO, Corporate Services, Assets and Amenities and Community Services. While each area of Council has specific focus areas, we work collaboratively to ensure we are delivering public value through good decision-making and wise spending.

Over the years, Golden Plains Shire Council has continued to deliver quality services, programs, projects and events. Among these is the award-winning Golden Plains Farmers’ Market, a number of state-of-the-art early years services and meaningful infrastructure projects, such as the Smythesdale Oval refurbishment and upcoming Bannockburn Heart precinct.

Our organisation has three Customer Service Centres, with the majority of staff based at our Bannockburn Customer Service Centre. We also offer customer service at our Linton and Smythesdale offices.