Principal Engagement Officer

**Department for Infrastructure and Transport**
**Job reference**: 672262
**Location**: 5000 - ADELAIDE
**Job status**: Long Term Contract
**Eligibility**: Open to Everyone

At the Department for Infrastructure and Transport, we are connecting South Australia to keep our State moving. We are responsible for delivering a multi-billion-dollar pipeline of transformative transport and social infrastructure projects, operating and maintaining thousands of kilometres of roads and managing our city’s public transport network. Our work encompasses every part of our State; from our cities to our regions, connecting and strengthening community.

**The Opportunity**
We’re looking for a passionate Principal Engagement Officer to join our Engagement team.

If you are a confident leader, strategic thinker and thrive in a fast-paced environment, this is your opportunity to join a multi-disciplined team that works closely with business units ensuring communities and stakeholders are meaningfully engaged and DIT objectives are successfully delivered.

Working closely with the Manager, Engagement, you'll lead a diverse range of projects and deliver high quality engagement strategies, creating meaningful opportunities for community and stakeholder input to inform project decision-making.

You'll join a supportive team environment that shares common values and embraces diversity, where you can grow, learn and develop your skills.

**About You**
We’re seeking a collaborative team player who will champion our vision and goals, identify new opportunities and turn ideas into action. To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate:

- **Strategic communicator**: You are a strategic thinker and can effectively develop and deliver integrated stakeholder engagement strategies and activities for diverse customer audiences, based on best practice.
- **Corporate narrator**: You have excellent writing and editing skills and can produce engagement materials and key messages that resonate with various audiences.
- **Confident leader**: You inspire and harness creativity in others, analyse trends, explore possibilities and clear the way for innovative solutions that improve the way we deliver. You maximise available resources to achieve strategic and tactical stakeholder engagement activities to associated deadlines, budget and resources.
- **Results driven**: You have exceptional project planning and time management skills and a flair for producing results-driven communications activities that enhance our reputation, align with priorities, and engage diverse audiences.
- **Influential team player**: You have high-level interpersonal skills and can influence others. You seek opportunities to build meaningful relationships, trust, credibility and confidence with internal clients, strategic networks and stakeholders.

**Qualifications/Experience**
IAP2 qualifications are desirable.

Formal relevant qualifications and/or

Significant experience in stakeholder engagement on infrastructure, asset and/or Transport related projects.

**Special Conditions**
- A National Police Check (NPC) which must be renewed every three years.
- A Department for Human Services (DHS) Working with Children Check (WWCC) which is required to be renewed every five years before expiry.

Some out of hours and weekend work, along with some intra/interstate travel requiring overnight stays, may be required.

**Tenure of Vacancy**
Temporary appointment up to 2 years.

Multiple vacancies.

**Remuneration**
ASO7 - $108,109 to $116,864 pa + superannuation.

**Enquiries**
Kathryn Sanderson
A/Director, Engagement
Telephone: 0466 531 027

**Application Instructions**
Applications can be submitted online by clicking the 'Apply' button.

Applicants are required to submit a CV and a cover letter of no more than two pages addressing the selection criteria in the attached role statement.

**Our Commitment**

As a WE’RE EQUAL organisation we are committed to treating everyone equally, proudly promoting our department, and all its spaces as safe places for everybody.

Role Statement - Principal Engagement Officer (ASO7)

**Applications close**: 29/05/2025 9:00 PM

**Flexibility Statement**
The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.