Communications & Engagement Advisor, Corporate

Location: Melbourne | CBD

Job type: Full time - Flexible

Organisation: Development Victoria

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Procurement

Reference: 768

**About Us**

At Development Victoria, we’re passionate about making Victoria a great place to be. We create vibrant places across our state, through diverse and strategic property development and urban renewal projects.

As the Victorian Government’s development arm, we revitalise iconic public buildings, create important community, creative and sporting facilities and repurpose public land, for all Victorians. We also build great homes and communities where people and businesses can thrive, catering for different budgets, lifestyles, and people - designed to be sustainable and affordable.

**Your New Role**

You will be contributing to telling the Development Victoria story. Working within our dynamic Corporate Affairs & Engagement Team, the Communications & Engagement Advisor will provide support in developing and implanting communications strategies for our projects, predominantly within our housing portfolio.

**Core Accountabilities**
- Assist in developing and implementing communications plans and strategies to support our projects under delivery.
- Idenfitying issues and risks and developing communications plans or approaches to mitigate or minimise negative impacts.
- Support the development and implementation of community engagement strategies to positively position Development Victoria.
- Provide high quality content across print and online channels to positively engage intended audiences and achieve measurable improvement of Development Victoria’s presence and profile.
- Translate complex, technical, and sensitive content into plain English for communication strategies, action plans, community bulletins, work notices and correspondence.
- Manage internal client relationships to maintain clear and open lines of communication and ensure relevant sign off/approvals are obtained for communications materials.

**Desired Skills and Experience**:
**About You**

This is an exciting opportunity to build on your communications experience with a committed team in a values-led organisation that delivers positive outcomes for the Victorian community. We are looking for someone ready to jump in and learn the ropes in a dynamic, supportive and fun working environment.

**Skills and Education**
- Bachelor’s or postgraduate degree in Public Relations, Communications, or a relevant discipline
- Excellent written communication skills and ability to develop clear, high-quality communication materials obtained from a variety of sources
- Minimum of 2 - 3 years’ experience in a communications role
- Experience of liaising with local communities and stakeholders (desirable)
- Exposure to the property or infrastructure sector, or experience within a government environment (desirable)

**Employee Benefits**
- We drive strong collaboration and support our teams to work virtually and flexibly.
- Professional development opportunities available including;
- Study support
- Mentoring programs
- Opportunity to participate in cross functional working groups that drive diversity and inclusion and sustainability initiatives.
- Novated leasing
- Purchase leave
- Paid parental leave
- Technology salary sacrifice
- Employee referral bonuses
- Health & Wellbeing initiatives such as EAP and mental health and wellbeing leave
- Access to group life & group salary continuance insurance
- Modern onsite facilities

**Application Process**

**We respectfully request no agency approaches. We will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes being sent to anyone here in our business.