Corporate Affairs Lead

4 weeks ago

Sydney, Australia Westpac Banking Corporation Full time

Corporate Affairs Lead
- 12 month opportunity
- Hybrid working model - 3 days per week in office
- Sydney based role

**How will I help?**

If you enjoy working in a fast-paced corporate affairs environment and want to further your career, this could be the role for you. Westpac is looking for a creative and driven senior communications professional to join our corporate affairs team.

The Corporate Affairs Lead supports internal and external communications for the Business & Wealth Division. This role will support senior leaders craft and deliver messages to connect and empower their teams. They will play a crucial role in lifting employee engagement and supporting our business with new initiatives and campaigns, along with a strong focus on generating proactive media stories and issues management.

This role requires close collaboration with colleagues across group media, government, reputation, and community functions. It will also involve working on large integrated marketing campaigns and supporting sponsorship and marketing initiatives.

The day-to-day role includes:

- developing and delivering end-to-end internal communications strategies to support business objectives and employee engagement
- management of internal townhalls and events
- developing creative external media campaigns
- briefing and preparing spokespeople for media interviews and external opportunities
- providing trusted media and reputational counsel to the business and its leaders
- producing written and video communication materials
- effectively identifying, mitigating, and managing business issues

**What's in it for me?**

You'll play a significant part of the future of a business that has been around for over 200 years. Our purpose is to create better futures together. So, we'll back you in the development of your career, internal career prospects, and flexible working. You'll also keep learning to grow your career, backed by a fantastic team of people with a can-do, supportive structure. Whatever shape your family takes, we offer generous paid and unpaid parental leave for your nominated primary and support carers. This includes leave to organise adoptions, surrogacy, and foster care arrangements. And we continue to pay your super contributions while you take all the time you need to get your new family settled.

**What do I need?**
- Significant experience in corporate communications (public relations or in-house positions, journalism or government).
- Experience in managing reputational issues, crisis management and media relations
- The ability to negotiate and influence and manage strong relationships with senior executives
- Ability to proactively identify issues before they arise and develop strategies to minimise reputational risk for the Group.
- Strong creativity and ability to develop communications and events that engage employees.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Tertiary degree in Communications, Journalism, Marketing or Digital Media

**If you are a proactive and driven team player with proven ability to collaborate with others and drive ideas to deliver outstanding results, then we would love to hear from you**

**What's it like to work there?**

We are a collaborative team of passionate people with a shared ambition to make a difference for our customers, our communities and each other. At Westpac, making a difference means creating impact, unlocking our own and each other's passions, and transformative success stories to create better futures together.

As well as competitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family gives you access to a wide range of employee benefits to help you manage your priorities - whether that means family life, work/life balance, ambition to grow or all the little perks in between.

We'll empower you to shape your career path. Through personalised upskilling, mentoring, and training opportunities, you're in control of where you start and how you'll grow.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are proud to have created a culture and work environment that values diversity and flexibility - and champions inclusion.

Hear from some of our people and their experiences working with us.

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Job ID 300002779040967

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