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Bendigo Easter Festival
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Bendigo Easter Festival The Major Events team is responsible for the coordination of activities relating to the attraction and support of major events to Bendigo. Over the Easter long weekend, Bendigo’s beautiful Rosalind Park and surrounding streets will be transformed into a vibrant precinct bursting with family-friendly entertainment. An extensive program of activities and attractions offers something for all ages. Be in the hunt for Easter Eggs on Good Friday, experience the thrills of Carnival Central, find a treasure at the Rotary Market, rock along to live music or keep the kids busy in a park filled with hands-on activities and performances Volunteers have the ability to choose from a number of roles during the festival including (but not limited to);
You can volunteer for one shift (four hours), or the whole weekend! Volunteer Positions for the 2026 Bendigo Easter Festival are now open. |
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Intercultural Ambassador Program
Intercultural Ambassador Program
Every two years the City recruits 10 Intercultural Ambassador volunteers who represent a diverse range of multicultural and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds in our community. The Ambassadors will participate in community events and projects, City advisory and reference groups and attend civic functions. They will also act as champions for their existing communities and gain valuable leadership and development opportunities. Our Program is based on the successful City of Ballarat Multicultural Ambassadors Program. Funding for the Pilot Program has been provided by the Victorian Government.
Intercultural Ambassadors Booklet
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Student Work Placement Program
The City of Greater Bendigo is proud of it's Student Work Placement Program. The program offers work experience placements for year 10 to 12 secondary students, Unpaid University Placements for students seeking to practically complement their qualification. Programs are subject to the City's business unit’s ability to resource, supervise and conduct them.
- The City is unable to guarantee a placement.
- Student Work Placements are sought after and limited.
- When answering the application questions use examples where possible in your response.
- Use your response to every question as an opportunity to standout from everyone else.
- If you have a resume, this will help us learn more about you and your skills.
- You may also have to meet with us in person to discuss your application further.
- Refer to this checklist before you start the application form as you may need to obtain further information.
Clicking on this yellow information icon next to the questions on the application form will give you further information and helpful tips.- Preference will be given to students living and studying at schools in the City of Greater Bendigo.
- The Student Handbook and quiz forms part of your induction.
- The processing of your application can take a minimum of two weeks
- All students need to be attending an educational institution or an approved home schooled program that is secondary school equivalent.
- Work Experience only students are paid at $5.00 a day for the five days via Electronic Funds Transfer, so you will need to provide us with your account details including your Bank's BSB number.
Please note: We are unable take Student Work Placements in the following areas in 2026.
BARC, Early Childhood Learning Centres, Information and Technology, Bendigo Art Gallery.
PLACEMENT INFORMATION
Engineering
The Engineering unit manages a range of public infrastructure on behalf of the City including local roads, bridges, stormwater, dams and subdivision engineering services. This involves ongoing monitoring of asset condition and performance, asset planning, survey, civil design and delivery of capital works projects. The unit is also responsible for managing the City’s geographic information services and asset management data. The following is and example of tasks that you may observe and may experience during your week with us.
- Some minor drafting of traffic projects
- Introduction into requests and issues
- Assist resolving some traffic/drainage requests
- Observe minor drafting of traffic projects
- Assess a drainage / bridge requests or some subdivision surveillance
- Shadow survey staff and do some survey tasks
- Shadow designer and possibly do some design work
- Shadow designer and possibly do some design wo
- Site visit and inspection of upcoming design or a design that is being built
- Shadow GIS staff
- Data entry into into Konnect
- Mapping
- Shadow CID staff
- Site Inspection to oversee construction
Parks and Open Space
The Parks and Open Space Unit manages the parks, gardens, creek corridors, bushland and sporting reserves as well as streets, plazas and road reserves. Work Experience tasks could include, weeding, mulching, blowing down paths and observing and shadowing qualified professionals.
Young Women In STEM
The City of Greater Bendigo (the City) is proud to present our the Young Women in STEM work placement program for young women in Years 9-12 in schools across Greater Bendigo.
The Young Women in STEM pilot program will provide 12 young women an insider view into what STEM roles look like within local government. The students will be selected from the application process.
The City of Greater Bendigo is located in the geographic heart of Victoria and is the state’s third largest economy. The City is a primary employer and service provider within the region, employing over 1,000 staff who deliver 65 core services to a growing population of more than 121,000 residents across 3,000 square kilometres.
The City is committed to advancing gender equality in the workplace and in the community. The Young Women in STEM work placement program supports the City’s aim to have strong and diverse teams that deliver high quality services to the community.
The Young Women in STEM program offers week-long placements across nominated business units that offer STEM-related roles.
STEM students are paid at $5.00 a day for the five days via Electronic Funds Transfer, you will need to provide us with your details, these are then to be given to your onsite supervisor.
Note. Due to the unique nature of some activities, placement hours may take place outside typical school hours. An example of this is Bendigo Venue and Events and the Bendigo Airport. Thought should also be given to making sure you have safe and reliable transport to and from the venue.
STEM Program Dates
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