Senior Corporate Communications Lead
$11,050,676–$11,050,676 year
HybridBroadmeadows, Victoria, Australia
Job Summary
Lead strategic advisory and integrated communications planning for the CEO, Executive Leadership Team, Mayor, and Councillors. Develop audience-centred messaging, corporate narratives, and proactive storytelling to safeguard Council's reputation during high-risk or politically sensitive matters. Coordinate high-level media responses, statements, and issues management while providing mentoring to Communications and Media Advisors. Build trusted partnerships with senior stakeholders across the organisation and deliver strategic outcomes within tight deadlines. This 12-month full-time role offers a salary of $110,506.76 plus superannuation with a competitive benefits package.
Required Qualifications
- Tertiary qualifications in Communications, Public Relations, Journalism, Marketing or a related discipline
- Substantial demonstrated experience in strategic communications
- Substantial demonstrated experience in stakeholder engagement
- Substantial demonstrated experience in corporate communications
- A current driver's licence
Desired Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience developing and delivering integrated communications strategies, campaigns and plans within a complex organisation or political environment
- Demonstrated ability to provide high-level strategic communications advice to senior stakeholders, including executive leadership, elected officials or senior decision-makers
- Highly developed stakeholder relationship management, negotiation and influencing skills, with the ability to build trusted partnerships across a large and complex organisation
- Demonstrated experience identifying and managing reputational, political and organisational risks, including the ability to exercise sound judgement and determine appropriate escalation pathways
- Highly developed written and verbal communication skills, including experience preparing strategic communications materials such as key messages, briefing notes, speeches, media materials and executive communications
- Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities, navigate ambiguity and deliver strategic communications outcomes within tight deadlines and changing organisational environments
- Demonstrated understanding of audience-centred and insight-led communications approaches, including the ability to develop communications that are accessible, targeted and effective across diverse audiences and communities
- Demonstrated ability to lead and coordinate end-to-end communications activities and guide communications delivery across multiple stakeholders, projects and channels
- Demonstrated commitment to collaboration, continuous improvement and customer-focused service delivery
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