Manager, Advocacy and Government Relations

**Manager, Advocacy and Government Relations**:
**Job no**: 498547

**Work type**: Permanent Full Time

**Classification**: MSP

**Categories**: Marketing & Communication

**About the role**

**Work type: Permanent, full-time**
**Classification**:$161,000 plus Superannuation**

Key responsibilities include:

- Developing a clear, inspiring vision for the team's future, formulating goals to achieve it, and communicating it effectively to lead the department.
- Motivating and providing strong operational leadership to the department by fostering an inclusive, customer focused and accountable culture.
- Developing the department’s government relations, advocacy and funding strategies and frameworks that consider the community’s needs, the City’s priorities and placemaking aspirations.
- Identifying areas of the City to prioritise for advocacy.
- Leading the analysis, reporting and presentation of relevant government policy-related funding announcements ensuring the ELT, SLT, Mayor and Councillors are suitably briefed.
- Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with local, state, and federal ministers, MPs, other Local Government representatives, representatives of international governments and public and private funding partners.
- Regularly monitoring legislative, regulatory, and political changes and other relevant external factors to identify risks or areas of improvement to our advocacy positions.
- Regularly monitoring to identify new public and/or private funding opportunities, coordinating with key internal forums as stakeholders in determining as to the suitability and utility of the funding opportunity.
- Proactively leading proposed policy submissions and responses on behalf of the City factoring in the diverse views of the ELT, SLT, Mayor and Council and the needs of the community.
- Supporting the organisation in the identification of external grants and work with Departments across the organisation, ELT and Council to identify priority projects.

**About you**
To be successful in this role you will have strong understanding of the political landscape, including the nuance and sensitivities around political matters as well as the policy creation processes.

Essential Experience:

- A tertiary qualification in Politics, Policy, Law, or similar and/or significant professional experience in Government Relations, Corporate Affairs or similar in a comparable organisation.
- Demonstrated senior leadership experience, with experience in government policy processes.
- Significant demonstrated experience in developing strategic relationships with government ministers, MPs, and policymakers.
- Accomplished stakeholder management and relationship building abilities.
- Strong analytical and research abilities with experience and understanding of government policy and political contexts.
- Accomplished negotiation, writing, presentation, and public speaking skills to influence stakeholders and achieve support for department outcomes.
- Well-developed problem-solving approaches.
- Proven track of leading teams through change ensuring strong stakeholder engagement throughout the process.
- Demonstrated skills in business planning and management, budget development, financial and resource management, and complex reporting in accordance with strategic goals and KPIs.
- Demonstrated project management experience with the ability to lead small to medium sized projects to quality outputs, within tight deadlines and budget.

**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-focu