Assistant Director, Strategic Communication

Executive Level 1
- Canberra, ACT; Brisbane, QLD
- $120,636 - $133,328

**About the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations**
We are committed to empowering futures, ensuring rights and enriching lives. We support people to have safe, secure and well-paid work with the skills for a sustainable future as we ourselves strive to be a model employer.

We provide the framework for fair and productive relationships between employers and employees. We also oversee skills development and training initiatives to support those entering the workforce or re-training to take advantage of emerging employment opportunities.

With us, your work directly contributes to shaping the employment landscape. Whether you are engaging in policy development, program implementation, or direct support services, your efforts will have a tangible impact on job seekers, employees and the economy by giving them a framework to build a future anchored and realised through employment.

It is our ambition to do things differently, to create the ‘department of great jobs’- where our people reflect our purpose.

**The Role**
A vacancy exists within the Communication and Media Branch, Skills & Training Strategic Communication team for high performing and experienced communication professional at the EL1 level.

Our team of experienced specialists are accomplished in a range of communication disciplines. Through an established communication account management model, the team partner with business areas to deliver targeted communication - internally and externally.

Reporting to the relevant Director, the department is looking for high performing EL1 Assistant Director in Strategic Communication.
- ** Strategic Communication**:Lead the development, implementation, and evaluation of communication strategies to educate and enable Australians to improve their understanding of skills and employment policies and programs.

**Duties and Responsibilities**
Responsibilities of the APS Executive Level 1 may include:

- Planning and delivering complex strategic communication initiatives for internal business areas/clients, using both in-house and external service providers.
- Collaborating with business areas and providing high quality and timely advice to inform the planning, budget, procurement, development, and delivery of strategic communication initiatives.
- Working with senior executive and across government to translate complex policy into meaningful, simple and accessible communications.
- Monitoring and managing the procurement, reporting, budget, and administration of communication initiatives.
- Leading, managing and developing team members to build their capability while fostering a positive working environment for all staff to thrive.
- Supporting your Director with project and team management, including acting where required.
- Build positive working relationships with internal business areas and stakeholders.

**Qualifications and Education**
A tertiary qualification in a relevant field and/or relevant experience in a similar communication role in either the Government or private sector.

**How to Apply**
Applicants are required to provide a summary (no more than 500 words) that outlines skills, knowledge, and experience and why you should be considered for this vacancy. You should take into consideration the position overview (including any detailed position specific requirements) when drafting your response. Where possible include specific relevant examples of your work.

The APS work level standards accommodate the diversity of roles across the APS and are structured to clearly differentiate between the work expected (i.e. responsibilities and duties) at each classification level.

In the eRecruit (the department’s online recruitment system) you will also need to:

- upload a Curriculum Vitae
- provide contact details for 2 Referees.

**Eligibility**

**Don’t meet all the role requirements?**

**Citizenship** - to be eligible for employment with the Department, you must be an Australian Citizen or, in limited circumstances, in the process of obtaining it.