Communications Advisor

**About the Role**:
Our Marketing and Communications team is a supportive and highly productive group delivering quality communications to support the dairy industry. As the Communications Advisor, you will play a key role in supporting a “one-team” approach as you work closely with our regional and Southbank communications teams. You will possess a passion for communication planning and implementation as well as creating content that engages with our varied audience.

Leading the development of communication plans, you will support the alignment between national and regional communication priorities and campaigns to produce high quality and engaging communication strategies. Here are some examples of where you will make an impact;
- Active part of a team driving our national communications strategy;
- Lead the development of communication plans ensuring engagement and relevance to audience is paramount;
- Take comprehensive formal communications briefs and ensure supporting plans align with the overarching calendar and feed into the development workflow;
- Manage the implementation of approved plans then track, analyse and evaluate against performance;
- Work with the DA Design team to ensure appropriate representation of Dairy Australia brands tailored to need;
- Development and delivery of content that is engaging and aligned to farmer needs;
- Regional website management including maintenance and content.

Ideally you will have a diploma or degree in communications, marketing or public relations with professional communications experience. You will have strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills and proven experience in developing and delivering high-impact communications plans and campaigns. Just as important is your initiative and enthusiasm for:

- Creating Innovation: you generate ideas, explore possibilities, and develop effective and targeted campaigns;
- Building Relationships: you thrive on interacting with multiple stakeholders, establish rapport easily and impress people with your ability to tailor your communication to their needs;
- Communicating Information: you convince people, challenge ideas and appropriately articulate information to your audience with strong attention to detail;
- Showing Resilience: you convey self-confidence, demonstrate composure and resolve conflicts as they arise;
- Change: you think positively, embrace change and invite feedback;
- Structuring Tasks: you manage tasks, uphold standards and produce desired outputs.

**About Dairy Australia**:
Dairy Australia is the national services body for the Australian dairy industry. Our purpose is to support the profitability and sustainability of the industry. We do this by providing services that collectively benefit and advance dairy farm businesses and the industry.

Investments include research and innovation, supporting farm business management, responding to events such as drought, bushfires, floods or COVID-19, developing tools to adapt to the environment and address climate, supporting on-farm employment needs, marketing of dairy products and commitment to sustainability, policy research, industry insights, and delivering international market programs.

**Our Vision and Values**:
At Dairy Australia, our vision is simple, to be leaders in shaping a profitable and sustainable dairy industry. Our passionate and talented people share this vision and make an impact each day through their commitment to our values of:

- Farmer First - Farmer needs guide our purpose;
- One Team - We work together to achieve great things;
- Innovative Thinking - We embrace new ideas and learning as we go;
- Decisive Action - We make informed decisions and move quickly to implement.

**About your work life with us**:
At Dairy Australia, we aim to provide benefits that promote the overall wellbeing of our employees. In joining our team, you will be rewarded with:

- Flexible working environment - a blended working environment (at our office in Southbank with our team, combined with at home/virtual);
- Being a key member in our supportive and high performing team of experts in their field;
- A caring and innovative culture - we are open to each other’s ideas, we love to innovate, we have integrity and are driven to find the best solutions for our employees and stakeholders;
- Be part of a values driven Not-For-Profit organisation;
- Attractive staff benefits including subsidised gym membership;
- Salary packaging;
- Paid parental leave.

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