Media Advisor

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**The Opportunity**:

- **Bring your communications and media expertise to CSIRO**:

- **Join a collaborative team, in a flexible work environment**:

- **Deliver compelling content that highlights CSIRO’s impact**

CSIRO has an opportunity for an energetic Media Advisor to join our media team within Corporate Affairs. The CSIRO media team is the agency’s central liaison point for media, playing a critical role in translating CSIRO’s research to the public.

As the Media Advisor, you will help to devise and deliver media strategies, manage strategic media relationships, pitch stories, and provide advice around the editorial direction of CSIRO’s media. You’ll draw on your integrated skill set across the mix of traditional media, digital and social media, and stakeholder engagement to execute media campaigns that help to build and protect the agency’s reputation.

You possess strong media relations experience, either as a journalist or in public relations. You’re an avid consumer of all forms of news, have a finely tuned risk radar and a good understanding of how social and digital media intersect.

If you’re an experienced communications and journalism professional who is excited by making an impact through their work, this role could be for you.

**Your duties will include**:

- Working with Corporate Affairs and other stakeholders to develop and execute multi-platform, one-CSIRO media campaigns that harness the news cycle to raise CSIRO’s profile on topics of strategic significance to targeted audiences.
- Developing and providing input into media releases, speeches, opinion pieces, blogs, feature articles, social and digital media, videos and multimedia content, and other content as required.
- Uploading media releases to CSIRO’s digital media centre and distributing releases through Isentia, Eurekalert and the Australian Science Media Centre.
- Collaborating with the Corporate Affairs team to manage CSIRO’s proactive media calendar, ensuring alignment with one-CSIRO messaging and brand, coordination on timing for key audiences and outlets, and managing distribution of high-quality outputs for media and for our digital media centre.
- Developing and nurturing media relationships across science, government, business and consumer media aligned with the priorities identified in the one-CSIRO media strategy, and proactively leveraging these relationships for the benefit of CSIRO.
- Working with Corporate Affairs to provide media training and issues management advice and support to CSIRO’s spokespeople, including coaching and interview preparation.
- Other duties as directed.

**Location**:Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne or Canberra preferred. Other AU CSIRO locations by negotiation.

**Salary**:AU$89k - AU$101k pa plus up to 15.4% superannuation

**Tenure**:Indefinite, Full-time.

**Reference**: 93370

**To be considered you will need**:
**Pre‐Requisite**:

- Education/Qualifications: A relevant tertiary qualification in journalism, communication or public relations or equivalent experience within large or complex organisations.
- Experience: Experience working within a large or complex organisation, across a breadth of stakeholders
- Behaviours: A history of demonstrated professional and respectful behaviours and attitudes in a collaborative environment.

**Essential Criteria**:

- Exceptional writing, editing and verbal communications skills, and attention to detail.
- Strong digital skills (including experience in publishing to websites through a Content Management System), and confidence to learn new digital platforms including Telum, iSentia, Scimex, Australian Science Media Centre and Eurekalert.
- An understanding of the media and stakeholder environment in which CSIRO operates, and a strong news sense.
- Demonstrated experience devising and delivering integrated communication campaigns that have cut-through and achieve objectives with target audiences.
- Demonstrated experience using analysis and evaluation of media coverage, to develop data-driven insights that inform media strategy.
- Experience working in a fast-paced environment with the ability to turn around work within tight timeframes.

For full details about this role please review the Position Description

**Eligibility**:
**Flexible Working Arrangements**:
We work flexibly at CSIRO, offering a range of options for how, when and where you work.

**Diversity and Inclusion**:
We are working hard to recruit people representing the diversity across our