Assistant Director Strategic Communications

Customer Experience and Strategy

Position No:

Salary/Level: Level 8, $157,900 - $171,005 pa, PSCSAA 2024

• 1x Full-Time, Permanent position available

Come join the team at the new Department of Housing and Works.

The Department of Housing and Works delivers and maintains essential social housing and critical infrastructure across Western Australia—including schools, hospitals and police facilities.

We manage tenancy services, support housing provision in remote Aboriginal communities, and oversee government employee accommodation.

Through office accommodation solutions, State Fleet management, procurement, planning and asset policy, we empower other government agencies to deliver their best.

We actively encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, youth, people of diverse sexualities and genders, and culturally and linguistically diverse people.

We are committed to ensuring our hiring processes are inclusive. If you are an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander person, young person or person with disability seeking assistance with your application, please contact
Jobs and Skills WA
on If you are a person living with disability and require any adjustments or accommodations, please contact Henrietta Farrell on or via email at You can also reach us through the
National Relay Service
.

When you join us, you can enjoy a variety of benefits, including:

• flexible work options,
  including working from home up to 2 days per week.
• professional development,
  training, and on-the-job learning
  to advance your career.
• generous leave entitlements,
  which include 4 weeks annual leave, 3 public service holidays each year, accrued long service leave every 7 years and an option to purchase additional leave each year.
  Access to cultural leave for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
• modern workspaces, where you
  choose your workspace
  that assists you to do your best work.
• access to activity-based work hubs in the CBD, Fremantle and Joondalup
  for ad hoc flexible work.
• corporate discounts
  with selected health insurance providers and access to wellness programs.
• Opportunity to support our
  Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), Disability Access and Inclusion Plan, Indigenous Network, Gender Equity Champions Group, and Youth Working Group.

About The Role:

The Assistant Director Strategic Communications is responsible for leading a cohesive approach across the Department of Housing and Works (DHW) to manage communications and media relations activity. This position leads the creation of communications materials and recommends optimal channels to maximise engagement for proactive and reactive issues, both internal and external to DHW. Key relationships include the Minister's office, alongside senior executives across DHW and the wider public sector, as well as business and industry leaders.

Additionally, the Assistant Director Strategic Communications is responsible for keeping the Executive Leadership Group (ELG) informed of the strength of these relationships and potential for interaction between them with a key focus on high profile/high risk issues or opportunities.

About You:

We are seeking an experienced leader for this busy internal and external facing function. With a strategic communications focus, you will lead a multi-discipline team to develop and deliver activities that meet the needs of customers and showcase the important work that DHW delivers across the State.

Your proven experience in building and maintaining high-profile relationships will be essential for effectively managing communications issues in a complex, dynamic, and politically sensitive environment.

This position operates in the context of Leading Others. This means that you will motivate and enable others to deliver high quality work. You will balance time between doing the work and coaching, guiding and developing others. This requires a significant shift in thinking from 'doing' to supporting others to 'do good work'; and consideration of present and future needs when allocating time to the team and projects you lead. You will articulate how work is to be done, providing clear direction and feedback

How to Apply:

If you think you have what it takes to be a part of our dynamic and forward thinking team, please click the
"APPLY FOR THIS JOB"
button and you will be redirected to WA Government Jobs and follow the advertising instructions. If not directed straight to the position, please key the position number into the web search box.

Please ensure you apply before the closing deadline as
we won't accept late and incomplete applications
.

Further Job Related Information:

For further information about the position please contact Henrietta Farrell on not to be contacted for Applicant Information Packs or assistance with lodging your application).

Currently there is one (1) permanent full-time position
available for filling. Whilst this selection process will initially be used to appoint to this advertised vacancy, it may also be used to appoint to similar positions that may arise in the Agency within the next twenty four (24) months on a full-time, part-time, permanent or fixed-term basis with the possibility of further extension(s) and/or permanency.

Closing Date:
Tuesday, 2 December 2025
at 4:00pm (AWST)

The Department may conduct an Executive Search to supplement the field of applicants.