Media and Communications Officer, Clerk Grade 5/6

6 days ago

Sydney, Australia NSW State Emergency Service Full time

**Media and Communications Officer, Clerk Grade 5/6, NSW SES Metro Zone**
- Join our dynamic Media and Communications team working in a volunteer-based agency supporting communities of NSW
- Full time ongoing role
- Attractive salary package of up to $115,643.00, includes salary plus employer's 11% contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading

**About the opportunity**

The role will be part of a 7-day rotating roster and will also be required to support the service during operational events including weekends and night shift, to support the creation and delivery of key safety messages across a range of channels. The NSW SES Metro Zone media officer will also be required to regularly attend State Headquarters at Wollongong as required.

**About the NSW SES**

Our Mission: NSW SES saving lives and creating safer communities.

Our Vision: A trusted volunteer-based emergency service, working together to deliver excellence in community preparedness and emergency response.

The NSW SES serves the NSW community as the lead agency for floods, storms, and tsunamis as specified by the State Emergency Service Act 1989. We are recognised as the most versatile and widely used emergency service organisation in NSW. Our volunteers are highly skilled, experienced, and well
- trained in the wide variety of roles they perform.

Each NSW SES Unit is as unique and varied as the community it serves, reflecting the vast mix of risks faced and roles required in the diverse locations and communities across the state. In addition to flood, storm and tsunami, our Service provides specialist capabilities that include general land rescue, vertical rescue, road crash rescue, and alpine and remote area search and rescue. In 2022, the NSW SES responded to more than 80,000 requests for assistance from the community and more than 3,400 flood rescues.

The NSW SES has over 10,000 volunteer members, including reserves, and a
full-time equivalent workforce of over 370. There are 262 volunteer Units across the State and our volunteer Units are either local, community-based Units, State-wide or regional Units established to provide specialist capabilities. They are varied and unique in their capabilities, designed to address specific risks to communities of NSW.

**About you**

To be successful in this role you will:

- Have tertiary qualifications in journalism, media/communications or experience working within the media or in corporate communications, and be capable of writing, editing, and publishing various materials such as media releases, talking points, newsletters, and web and social media content
- Experience in planning, developing and implementing communication strategies, plans, media campaigns and events
- Be able to work autonomously and in a team environment to complete set tasks.
- Have strong communicative and interpersonal skills required to effectively collaborate, advise and train various stakeholders
- Ability to remain vigilant and report on critical media issues as they arise

**What we can offer you**
- Employment with attractive leave entitlements including parental leave, recreation and flex leave and other leave entitlements
- Attractive salary package of up to $110,701 ($89,707 - $98,982 + leave loading + super)
- Flexible work options working within operational requirements
- Mental Health and Wellbeing programs and services
- Operational and leadership training and development opportunities via LinkedIn Learning and other training avenues to build and maintain skills
- Comprehensive immunisation programs including the flu vaccine
- Opportunities to build invaluable relationships across emergency service agencies, emergency service committees and other Government and community organisations.

**How to apply**
- A cover letter (maximum of one page) briefly responding to the** essential requirements** and your interest in the role;
- Responses to each of the **targeted questions **(maximum of one page per answer); and
- An up-to-date **resume **of no more than four pages detailing your skills and experience relevant to the role

**Targeted Questions**
- Please outline a communications plan or campaign that you developed and implemented to draw awareness to a particular issue or drive some form of action. In your answer, outline the steps you took in the development and implementation of the plan or campaign, who you collaborated with, and the result.
- Describe a time when you needed to manage a number of competing priorities that were delegated to you in a short period of time. In your response, outline what the competing priorities were, why were they competing, the timeframe you needed to work within and the result.

**Want to know more?**

The role description is available here.

A recruitment pool may be created to fill similar roles for both ongoing and temporary opportunities if they arise.

**Applications close: Sunday 24th November 2024, at 11:59pm.

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