Manager, Strategic Communications

**Manager, Strategic Communications & Change Initiatives**:
**Position Number**: 0064732
**Location**:Parkville
**Role type**:Full-time/Part-time (0.8 - 1.0 FTE); Continuing
**Faculty**:Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
**Department**:Centre for Digital Transformation of Health
**Salary**:UOM 8 - $119,742 - $129,607 p.a. (pro rata for part-time) plus 17% super
- **Drive strategic and operational communications to enhance outreach, stakeholder engagement, and alignment with the Centre’s goals.**:

- **Opportunity to lead communications efforts, working closely with senior leadership to drive impact and growth across various initiatives.**:

- **Salary packaging, subsidised health and wellbeing services, fitness and cultural clubs, Myki discounts, and a 25% discount on graduate courses to our staff and their immediate families**

**About the Role**
The Communications Manager will lead the Centre's strategic and operational communications, driving outreach efforts to align with overarching and project-specific goals. Collaborating with the leadership team, this role focuses on stakeholder engagement, brand management, and the development of targeted messaging, promotional assets, and events. With a commitment to continuous improvement, the Communications Manager will oversee tools and platforms, media relations, and cross-functional initiatives to enhance the Centre’s visibility and impact.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Provide tactical and operational insights to assist the leadership team in prioritising and targeting key stakeholder groups
- Manage the development, production, evaluation, and continual improvement of a comprehensive program of communications and outreach activities that are aligned with the Centre's strategic goals.
- Preparing senior academics for key stakeholder engagements — including potential donors and commercial partners.
- Develop and execute key messages, promotional assets, events, and content required for those programs of communications and outreach.

**Who We Are Looking For**

You will also have:

- Demonstrated track record in developing and delivering communications and outreach activities that resulted in strategically important outcomes, particularly within large and complex organisations.
- An enthusiastic and proactive approach to strategic communications and outreach activities, including the ability to take the lead on projects and initiatives with limited supervision, and to act as a trusted source of operational guidance for academic leaders.
- Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills, with the proven ability to establish trust, convene and manage cross-functional teams, identify and understand the needs and priorities of both internal and external stakeholders, navigate diverse personalities and competing priorities, and design collaborative ways of working to achieve shared goals.

For further information regarding responsibilities and requirements, please refer to the attached PD.

**Please note: Visa sponsorship is not available for this position**. This role requires current valid work rights for Australia.

**Your New Team - Centre for Digital Transformation of Health**
The Centre for Digital Transformation of Health at the University of Melbourne is at the forefront of revolutionizing healthcare through digital innovation. Our mission is to bridge the gap between digital health research and real-world healthcare, ensuring that research-driven advancements benefit the healthcare system. By connecting the strengths of medical research and data science, we're creating a vibrant ecosystem for translating digital health innovations into clinical practice.

**What We Offer You**
In addition, we offer the opportunity to be part of a vibrant community and enjoy a range of benefits, including generous leave provisions, salary packaging, health and well-being services and discounts on graduate courses. For more information, check out our benefits page

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