Corporate Communications Specialist

**Be recognised for your contribution, be valued for your expertise**:

- **Great career opportunity**:

- **Hybrid working as standard**

A great opportunity to be part of a with team with deep expertise and a highly collaborative, knowledge sharing style.
- **About Us**

As one of Australia’s largest profit-to member superannuation funds, our mission is to help our members achieve their personal best retirement outcomes. We work with 176 thousand employers and have over 1.9 million members playing a role in the futures of around one in six working Australians.

**Culture**

Our team at Rest enjoy a positive culture built around our core values “The Rest Effect”. We seek excellence in everything we do, are dynamic and innovative in the way we work, are always accountable, we are champions of our members and we succeed together.

**About the Job**

Delivery of the corporate communications plans supporting the Head of Corporate Communications to protect and build Rest’s corporate reputation, to advocate positively on behalf of members and to help members and employers to find out more about Rest.

This involves raising Rest’s profile and brand through communications campaigns, media relations, issues management.

**Key responsibilities include**:

- Develop corporate communications content and plans to support Rest in achieving its strategic objectives and in protecting and managing its reputation and to help members find out more about Rest, which includes:

- Communications campaigns around the agreed Rest and Corporate Communications strategy and agreed policy positions to engage Rest members about their superannuation and to help them find out more about Rest.
- Support media relations to drive positive engagement and increase Rest’s profile
- Delivery of the Annual Members’ Meeting.
- Develop content for Rest’s annual report, member briefings and sustainability reports.
- Support advocacy of public policy positions to benefit Rest members, employers and Rest as well as supporting Rest’s strategy as a Responsible Organisation.
- Contribute to the implementation of communications as part of the aligned corporate communications plan, advised by the Rest CEO and the Executive team.
- Work with key external suppliers and internal stakeholders to deliver business outcomes in line with timelines and budgets
- Manage budgets

**About You**:
You are a storyteller, a wordsmith, you are committed to the highest standard of delivery and want to progress your professional capability.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to think strategically and creatively with problem solving capability
- Possess strong planning, organising and project management skills
- Experience with external communications, including PR and the media
- Demonstrated ability to work under pressure including the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously, prioritise work, manage time, and meet deadlines
- Excellent attention to detail
- Skills in Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint
- Ability to work well in a team environment whilst demonstrating initiative and work autonomously
- Sound relationship building, influencing and negotiation skills
- Industry knowledge - experience and/or understanding of working in a regulated environment
- Tertiary qualification or equivalent experience in communications/marketing or related discipline

At Rest we believe that everyone has the power to make a difference and we offer an inclusive and diverse environment that values the qualities and backgrounds that our people bring to the team. We encourage open and diverse thinking, collaboration, innovation and high performance.

**Benefits**

We value and support our team members by offering a great range of benefits, including but not limited to;
- flexible work environment
- an open plan and modern office
- health and wellbeing programs
- tailored development plans to support you to achieve your personal best career outcome

Please note only people with the right to work in Australia will be considered.