Adviser, Media

**Overview**:
**Work Type**:Ongoing - Full-time

**Salary**: $97,955 - $111,142

**Grade**:VPS 4

**Occupation**:Communications, marketing and media

**Location**:Melbourne - CBD and Inner Metro suburbs

**Reference**:VG/DJ8789JULY2025

At the Department of Justice and Community Safety, we’re looking for people who want to make a difference. People who take pride in their work. People who get things done. People who are committed to making Victoria a safer place.

We embrace diversity and strive to have a workforce that reflects the community we serve. We’re all about recruiting the best people, regardless of gender, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or cultural background. If you think you can do the job and would be a good fit for our department, we’d love to hear from you.

The department is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and recognises that children’s rights need to be respected, their views welcomed and valued, and their concerns taken seriously and acted upon.

For more information on working with us and our recruitment process, please visit justice.vic.gov.au/careers

We’re proud of the important work we do across Victoria. Want to be part of it?
- **Utilise your media and communication expertise to provide support and advice to the Strategic Communication branch**:

- ** An Ongoing, Full-Time** opportunity to work with a high-performing and passionate team in the Victorian Public Service**:

- ** VPS Grade 4: $92,332 - $104,762 plus superannuation.**
- The Department of Justice and Community Safety is seeking a skilled and motivated **Media Adviser** to join our communication team.
- If you have a passion for law and order issues, strong writing skills, and a sharp news sense, this is your chance to work on some of Victoria's most high-profile and challenging public policy areas, including criminal law, corrections, youth justice, emergency services, and community safety.

**About Us**:

- The Department of Justice and Community Safety has an ongoing opportunity for an experienced or emerging Media Adviser with strong writing skills, sound news sense and an interest in law and order issues.
- You will be part of a media team that handles some of the most challenging areas of public policy and operations, including criminal law, prisons, youth justice, emergency services, and community safety.
- The successful applicant will be expected to write media materials, coordinate responses to media enquiries, be team-oriented and self-motivated, with a strong work ethic and a can-do approach in the workplace.
- This is an opportunity to make a real impact in a high-performing workplace that values teamwork, initiative, and integrity.

**What you'll do**:

- Draft and deliver clear, compelling media materials
- Respond to media enquiries with accuracy and professionalism
- Work under pressure while managing multiple deadlines
- Collaborate in a fast-paced, high-performing team
- To learn more about this role before applying, please read the attached position description

**What we're looking for**:

- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to distil complex information quickly and clearly
- A proactive, can-do attitude with a strong work ethic
- Confidence working in high-pressure, time-sensitive situations
- This is an opportunity to make a real impact in a high-performing workplace that values teamwork, initiative, and integrity.

**How to Apply**:
**IMPORTANT INFORMATION**:
**CHILD SAFE STATEMENT OF COMMITMENT**:

- The Department of Justice and Community Safety is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and young people. W e seek to prevent harm of any kind impacting children and young people and have zero tolerance for racism, child abuse and inequality. Children and young people's rights, relationships, identity, and culture must be recognised and respected, their voices heard, and their concerns acted upon. We aim to foster a culturally safe, child safe and child friendly environment for all children and young people we have contact with, deliver services to, or are impacted by our work.

- Applications close Sunday 17 August 2025 at 11.59pm

Posted
- 30 July 2025