Communications Manager

4 weeks ago


Council of the City of Sydney, Australia SGCH Group Full time
  • Permanent, full time role, Monday to Friday – 35 hour working week
  • Enjoy non-for-profit salary packaging up to $15,900 per year of your salary tax free plus an additional $2500 for meals, entertainment and accommodation.
  • Career development and growth opportunities.
  • Access Health and Wellbeing programs including EAP- Employee Assistance Program- free confidential support for you and your family.
  • Paid Parental Leave and other great employee benefits.
  • Work with a supportive and collaborative team of Communications creatives.
What we do

St George Community Housing (SGCH) provides sustainable, safe, and affordable housing as the foundation for our customers to connect to opportunities and build their communities. With a business head and a social heart, we deliver together with passion and purpose, guided by our values. Recognised as Employer of Choice (Public Sector and Not For Profit) at the 2022 Australian Business Awards, at SGCH you can realise your potential, whilst being supported to balance and achieve.

About the Communications Manager role

We have an opportunity to join our Communications team as a Manager, Communications. This is a permanent, full-time position and reports to the Head of Communications. This role has hybrid arrangements, based at our Redfern office and requires travel to other SGCH office locations as required.

As the Manager Communications, you will lead and manage the development of integrated and strategic communications planning with a focus on customers and project stakeholders. You will align communications to ensure a common focus on planning and execution to deliver on the Strategic Plan and drive effective and engaging communications at all levels. You will drive measurable and sustainable change.

You will lead a team of Communications Advisors and support the Communications team in developing and delivering communications plans for major projects and programs, identifying opportunities and risks early, developing and implementing messaging, Q&As and engagement plans with appropriate measures of success.

About you (essential requirements)

To succeed in the role, you will have the below key attributes:

  • Tertiary qualifications in communications or related field
  • A strong track record in integrated communications for multiple audiences, including internal teams, customers and project stakeholders
  • Media experience – You know what makes a good story pitch and what newsrooms need. You also know how to handle media inquiries.
  • Demonstrated experience leading, motivating and developing teams and an ability to articulate shared objectives to get results
  • Exceptional writing, editing and verbal communications skills, attention to detail to ensure materials are error-free
  • Demonstrated experience working as a senior communications manager in an issues-rich environment
  • Demonstrated experience engaging diverse stakeholders and audiences leveraging technology and creative resources
  • Ability to anticipate issues and mitigate risk; proactively and strategically approach issues, problems and opportunities
  • Experience building and maintaining professional and collaborative working relationships across a wide range of disciplines, and at all levels of an organisation, both internally and externally
How To Apply

Please refer to the full Communications Manager position description for further details including the essential criteria.

If this sounds like you, please send a cover letter addressing the essential criteria and a copy of your up-to-date CV using the form below before 9:00am, 12 February 2025.

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