Principal Communications Officer

5 months ago


Brisbane, Australia Education Full time

**About the Opportunity**: This is your opportunity to provide expert advice and support on proactive and reactive stakeholder communications, media issues, events, projects and activities within the Infrastructure Services Division and provide the Office of the Deputy Director-General efficient communications and stakeholder support.
- We need an exceptional comm's professional who can work within tight timeframes and with multiple stakeholders to help us shape the community's understanding of the importance of great infrastructure and how it impacts educational outcomes.
- Working within the Office of the Deputy Director-General, Infrastructure Services Division (ISD), you will take information and reframe it so it's easily understood - promoting the critical work of ISD.
- With excellent writing skills, demonstrated experience in crafting media and corporate communications, event management and experience dealing with Ministerial requests for information, you'll have an ability to form strong, productive working relationships and won't be afraid to pitch in with your multi-disciplinary communications team when needed.

**About you**:

- You have an ability to obtain and maintain confidence and support of internal and external stakeholders and peers by ensuring the delivery of professional, contemporary, accurate and responsive communications and stakeholder engagement advice, strategy and recommendations.
- You are effective working in a high-pressure environment, under tight deadlines and within limited resources.
- You are comfortable in providing internal consultancy and communications advice to executive members and branches to ensure the consistency of key messages are produced and delivered in a format, style and tone appropriate to the situation and audience.
- You are experienced in developing corporate communications and engagement strategies to enhance and protect the reputation of the Department of Education and the Infrastructure Services Division with stakeholders and the public.

Please refer to the attached role description for any mandatory requirements for this position.

**How to apply**:

- Please provide your resume demonstrating your suitability for the role and past work experiences. Include contact details for 2 referees (one of who should be your current supervisor).
- Please provide a cover letter of no more than two pages that addresses:

- How you build relationships and confidence in your skills so you are considered a trusted communications and engagement advisor? Please provide an example of when you have done this and the outcome.
- When have you contributed to organisational objectives or projects where there has been some level of resistance and how did you influence improved communication processes, strategies and outcomes that supported those objectives or projects?
- Drawing on your demonstrated experience, explain how you undertake communications project management, assisting in the development and implementation of communication activities, raising awareness of the organisation's priorities while enhancing its profile in the broader community and industry.
- Describe a project for which you have used your well-developed writing and editorial skills (research, interviewing, writing, editing and proofreading) to develop content for either internal or external communications and what mediums did you use and why?

Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department. Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted. When working in regulated employment an employee must have a current Working with Children Clearance (blue card) issued by Blue Card Services.Salary rate shown is reflective of full-time (1.0 FTE). The Department of Education is a family inclusive workplace. Click here to find out more about our Inclusion and Diversity strategies.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.



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