Manager, Media

Location: Melbourne | CBD

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Department of Government Services

**Salary**: $134,593 - $157,355

Occupation: Communications, Marketing and Media

Reference: VG/1827346

**About us**
The Department of Government Services (DGS) was established on 1 January 2023 to improve everyone's experience of doing business and interacting with the Victorian government. We bring important day-to-day services together in one department to make things easy and seamless for Victorians and businesses. We are doing this by connecting and digitising our systems and platforms across state and local government as well as streamlining our corporate and procurement services.

**About the role**

The role is an opportunity to work in an issues rich environment, including cyber security, technology, telecommunication, local government, renting and housing, and emergency response.

The Manager, Media will lead a small team of media advisers and will be responsible for building and maintaining professional relationships with ministerial advisers, senior executive, department staff and other key stakeholders.

This position also plays a leading role to provide media and communication advice to senior leaders and VPS departments and agencies during emergency responses, including cyber incidents.

As this is a media-focused role, work outside usual hours of business will be required from time-to-time. An on-call allowance will be available for occasional weekend work.

**About you**

To be considered for the role, you must be able to demonstrate the following:

- Ability to build a culture of collaboration across the organisation; looks for and facilitates opportunities to collaborate with external stakeholders
- Have a comprehensive understanding of external and internal issues that influence the strategic direction of the organisation.
- Able to consider a broad range of topics (beyond immediate area of work), works across government and at senior levels to develop and deliver sustainable solutions.
- Use strategic relationships and knowledge to predict and prepare for the impact of events on the organisation and show an understanding of the impact of external events and changing stakeholder needs on the organisation and government.
- Able to provide high level advice on influencing and the needs of target audiences
- Role model ethical leadership through decision making and interactions with people; creates an organisational culture that enables others to perform at their best and achieve outcomes for the organisation

**Key accountabilities**
- Lead a small team of media professionals, providing leadership, defining expectations, monitoring and managing performance, and providing timely and constructive feedback to support staff development.
- Manage and oversee DGS daily media activities, including liaising with the media and ministerial advisers, undertaking horizon scanning and developing mitigation approaches to manage risk.
- Build and maintain strong professional relationships with ministerial offices, senior executives, departmental staff and other key stakeholders.
- Play a key role helping to develop positioning strategies for emerging issues and identifying opportunities to showcase the department's work.
- Prepare and oversee the preparation of media releases, briefing notes, media event packs, and input to speeches, as required.
- Oversee the provision of regular updates and reports to senior leadership on media issues and activities, including analysis of the media landscape.
- Support PAEC media issues briefings and training and support to the senior leadership.

For specific responsibilities please review the attached position description.

This position is only open to applicants with relevant rights to work in Australia.

**How to apply**
- a resume; and
- a cover letter which addresses the key selection criteria (within three pages)

**Other relevant information**

The department is committed to providing and maintaining a working environment which is safe and without risk to the health of its employees and clients and consistent with the department's obligations under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (OH&S Act), to support this DGS has a COVID-19 Vaccination policy which **strongly recommends** all DGS employees be fully vaccinated.

DGS actively promotes diversity, inclusion and an equal opportunity workplace. We welcome applicants from all diverse backgrounds, including people with disabilities and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. All roles at DGS can be worked flexibly, however it may differ from role to role.