Communications and Engagement Lead

2 weeks ago

Melbourne, Australia Department of Transport and Planning Full time

Location: Melbourne | Parkville

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Department of Transport and Planning

**Salary**: $105,479 - $127,621

Occupation: Communications, Marketing and Media

Reference: 1639

**About the Role**
As a Communications and Engagement Lead, you will work to give community and stakeholders a voice in project planning and delivery, ensuring Department decisions reflect community needs, and developing communications materials that inform communities and stakeholders about the benefits of projects which impact them.

**Position outcomes**
- Comprehensive understanding of projects and programs - partnering with project teams to gain a deep understanding of each project/program within remit, including location, stakeholders, issues and risks to provide context for communications and engagement planning.
- Development of communications and engagement plans - producing comprehensive plans that effectively analyse stakeholders, define messaging and channels, reflect potential issues and propose mitigations.
- Delivery of communications and engagement plans - at a high standard, within outlined timeframes.
- Genuine engagement - ensuring that engagement with the community is timely, appropriate and transparent.
- Collaboration - working with COE, Transport Services, across DTP and the broader portfolio (including alliance partners, transport operators and other transport agencies).
- Evaluation - consulting with members of relevant communities ensuring effectiveness and outlining lessons learnt for future projects.
- Promote and support safe, inclusive, and flexible team operations.

On a personal level you will have strong problem solving skills and understand how to manage pressures while being adaptive to the organisational climate and culture.

To access the **Position Description, please click here.**

**Qualifications and Experience**

**Desirable**
- Prior experience in community and stakeholder engagement
- Strong writing and verbal skills
- Relevant tertiary qualification
- IAP2 accreditation

**Role Specific Requirements**
- Driver’s license

**What we offer**
- Meaningful work making Victorian communities more accessible and liveable
- Professional growth and development opportunities across the department and the wider Victorian Public Services
- A hybrid working model focused on collaboration and teamwork
- Optimal work-life balance initiatives including flexible working arrangements
- Opportunity to work across multiple urban and suburban hubs
- We prioritise the development of a safe and inclusive culture

**Culture Value**
We are an equal opportunity employer, embracing a diverse range of applicants such as veterans, and people who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, LGBTQIA community members, individuals with disabilities and/or health conditions, as well as those from varied faith and cultural backgrounds. At our department, we prioritize the development of a safe, inclusive, and high-performance culture through shared actions and behaviours that align with our strategy and direction. This empowers our employees to effectively contribute to our goals.

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