Job title: Senior Communications Advisor
Company: City of Greater Geelong
Job description: About the role
You will be the key source of communications support for the City of Greater Geelong’s Mayor and Councillors. You’ll provide strategic communications, media advice and produce a range of communications materials to help inform the community about Council decisions and build the reputation of our elected representatives.
Work type: Permanent, full-time
Classification: Band 7 ($100,064 – $110,990)
Key responsibilities include:
- Writing speeches and presentations for the Mayor and Councillors to deliver during public engagements.
- Attending official events and activities involving the City’s Mayor and Councillors, to provide communications support and gather content for the City’s social media channels.
- Managing media enquiries relating to the Mayor and Councillors, including arranging interviews, providing media briefing notes and offering strategic advice to assist in handling challenging media issues.
- Liaising with the Corporate Communications team on media enquiries requiring organisational input, as the conduit to the Mayor and Councillors.
- Proactively organising media opportunities featuring the Mayor and Councillors, targeting earned media and as content for the City’s owned channels.
- Managing the ‘Geelong Mayor’ social media channels, with a focus on showcasing the Mayor and Councillors in the community.
- Leading the communication of key decisions from the Council’s monthly meetings.
- Assisting the Mayor and Councillors with strategic public relations advice.
About you
To be successful in this role, you will be a versatile writer, able to distil often complex subjects into clear and concise messaging suitable for a broad audience. Written communications will include media releases, speeches, media briefing notes, newspaper columns, social media posts, and any other relevant material.
You’ll have sound news sense and political nous, with the ability to form strong working relationships and the confidence to deliver strategic communications advice at an executive level.
Essential Experience:
- Tertiary qualification in journalism, communications, media, or a related field.
- Demonstrated success liaising with internal and external stakeholders to plan and manage communications on complex issues.
- Demonstrated understanding of the political machinations of executive government at local, state or federal levels – and highly developed ‘nous’.
- Demonstrated experience undertaking research to prepare accurate, clear and timely written materials.
- High level writing skills, including experience in speechwriting.
- Demonstrated success managing social media channels.
- Experience managing multiple projects concurrently to meet non-negotiable deadlines.
- Experience providing strategic communications and media advice at an executive level.
- Skills and experience in digital communications (e.g. photography, video editing, and web content authoring and management) would be desirable.
- Awareness of the major issues and opportunities for the City of Greater Geelong and the Geelong region (desirable).
- Experience working in a government environment (desirable).
If this sounds like the role for you, then click apply now!
Create our future together at the City of Greater Geelong
At the City of Greater Geelong, we are committed to working together for a thriving community. We do this by delivering over 130 services to our rapidly growing population and working hard to protect and improve what it is that makes Greater Geelong on Wadawurrung Country such a great place to live, work and study.
We’re going through an exciting period of change that will help us serve our community better. From digital modernisation to the contemporary, sustainable office we’ve built in Central Geelong, now more than ever is a great time to join our team at the City of Greater Geelong.
Our Community is made up of diverse people from all walks of life, and it’s important to us that our workforce represents and celebrates this strength.
We encourage great people from all backgrounds to join us. We encourage authenticity, because inclusion makes us stronger.
If you’re excited about working together to create a Clever and Creative Greater Geelong, and joining a workplace where all people can thrive, then hit apply – we’d love to meet you!
We particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with diverse culture and linguistic backgrounds and people with disability.
A career with us
Central Geelong-based City employees are now based in our new Civic Precinct, Wurriki Nyal. Meaning ‘speak and talk together’ in local Wadawurrung language. Wurriki Nyal sets the benchmark for what a sustainable, inclusive and culturally safe workplace can be, including industry leading sustainability standards, a flexible and people-focused design, safe and inclusive spaces and public realm.
We’re committed to supporting better accessibility for our customers and our people. We encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments or additional support you may require during the recruitment process, as well as how this role can be flexible for you.
We offer:
- salary sacrificing and novated lease options
- cultural and ceremonial leave
- study leave
- paid parental leave (16 weeks primary and six weeks secondary) and superannuation payments on all 52 weeks primary parental leave
- IVF, surrogate and miscarriage bereavement leave
- training and career development opportunities
- a healthy and safe environment
- our employee wellbeing program
- corporate membership rates at Swim Sport and Leisure facilities
- unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning
Applications and Enquiries
Click the Position Description link to view more information about this position.
Enquiries: Amarra Bowkett | Acting Manager Communications |
Click the Apply button to submit your application or find out more about this opportunity. If we can assist you with any reasonable adjustments in order to submit your application for this role, please contact the Talent Acquisition team via email at careers@geelongcity.vic.gov.au noting your preferred method of communication and contact details and a member of the team will be in touch.
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Advertised: 12 Mar 2024 5:00 PM AUS Eastern Daylight Time
Applications close: 27 Mar 2024 11:55 PM AUS Eastern Daylight Time
Expected salary: $100064 – 110990 per year
Location: Geelong, VIC
Job date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 02:21:29 GMT
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