Employee Communications Advisor

**Employee Communications Advisor**:
**Job no**: 498809

**Work type**: Temporary Full Time

**Classification**: Band 7 ($100,064 - $110,990 pa)

**Categories**: Marketing & Communication

**About the role**

**Work type: Temporary, full-time (12-month contract)**
**Classification: Band 7 ($100,064 - $110,990)**

Key responsibilities include:

- Supporting the development and implementation of the City Employee Communications and Engagement Business Plan.
- Planning, managing, and implementing discrete communications strategies to support and internally promote the City’s organisational goals, workplace culture priorities, and/ or major projects.
- Partnering with key Directorate stakeholders to provide specialist advice and guidance on the development of effective employee communications.
- Assessing, managing, and ensuring relevance and quality control over existing employee communication channels to ensure adherence to branding protocols and consistency of message.
- Identifying and implementing any new or emerging opportunities to improve employee communications.
- Completing and refining regular reporting on employee communications and engagement.
- Working closely with and advising senior leadership and staff, on best-practice employee communication planning, tools and methods.
- Managing specific projects and internal events and participating in functional and cross-functional initiatives.
- Working with other City departments to help promote and document key employee events.
- Contributing to the development of communication strategies for the allocated directorate(s) that support the directorate to achieve its goals.

**About you**
To be successful in this role, you will have demonstrated knowledge and experience in advising and managing on a broad range of Communication and Engagement plans and strategies including understanding of, and experience in, the development of effective corporate or internal communication strategies.

Essential Experience:

- Degree qualification in Journalism, Communications, Media, Professional Writing and Editing, Marketing or a related field with several years of relevant experience working in a similar position.
- Highly developed written and verbal communication skills with the ability to relate to people at all levels and influence where appropriate.
- High level skills in assessing and evaluating the employee communications needs and options for a large modern workforce.
- Demonstrated ability in a range of contemporary communication media including but not limited to social media, digital photography and video, and web content authoring.
- High level stakeholder management skills - able to work closely with stakeholders at all levels and provide expert advice, support and direction on employee communications matters.

**Create our future together at the City of Greater Geelong**
At the City of Greater Geelong, we are committed to working together for a thriving community. We do this by delivering over 130 services to our rapidly growing population and working hard to protect and improve what it is that makes Greater Geelong on Wadawurrung Country such a great place to live, work and study.

We’re going through an exciting period of change that will help us serve our community better. From digital modernisation to the contemporary, sustainable office we've built in Central Geelong, now more than ever is a great time to join our team at the City of Greater Geelong.

Our Community is made up of diverse people from all walks of life, and it’s important to us that our workforce represents and celebrates this strength.

We encourage great people from all backgrounds to join us. We encourage authenticity, because inclusion makes us stronger.

If you’re excited about working together to create a Clever and Creative Greater Geelong, and joining a workplace where all people can thrive, then hit **apply** - we’d love to meet you

**A career with us**
Central Geelong-based City employees are now based in our new Civic Precinct, Wurriki Nyal. Meaning ‘speak and talk together’ in local Wadawurrung language. Wurriki Nyal sets the benchmark for what a sustainable, inclusive and culturally safe workplace can be, including industry leading sustainability standards, a flexible and people-focused design, safe and inclusive spaces and public realm.

We’re committed to supporting better accessibility for our customers and our people. We encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments or additional support you may require during the recruitment process, as well as how this role can be flexible for you.

We offer:

- salary sacrificing and novated lease options
- cultural and ceremonial leave
- study leave
- paid parental leave (16 weeks primary and six weeks secondary) and superannuation payments on all 52 weeks primary parental leave
- IVF, surrogate and miscarriage bereavement leave
- training and career development opportunities
- a healthy and safe environment
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