Senior Communications Advisor

Shape Your World

At Alcoa, you will become an essential part of our purpose: to turn raw potential into real progress. The way we see it, every Alcoan is a work-shaper, team-shaper, idea-shaper, world-shaper.

This is your opportunity to help share the future of sustainability with world-changing innovations and low-carbon technologies. Become a valued part of the team that's shaping the future of aluminium, revolutionising the way the world lives, builds, moves and flies. Be part of it and shape your world.

About the Role

As a senior media and communications professional, you will play a key role in shaping Alcoa's public narrative by developing high-impact stories that showcase the company's innovation, sustainability leadership, and community contributions. This 12-month fixed-term position offers the opportunity to apply both strategic insight and hands-on expertise to support communications across Alcoa's Australian operations.

Based in our Perth CBD office and reporting to the Communications Manager, you will be a vital member of a collaborative regional team, responsible for producing high-quality content across multiple media channels. Working closely with colleagues from across the business you will help communicate major projects, strategic priorities, and key events, ensuring consistent and engaging messaging that aligns with Alcoa's values and business goals.

Your key purpose and focus areas will be:

• Develop and deliver media relations activities, including media strategies, media releases and maintain strong relationships with relevant media contacts.

• Support proactive and reactive communications around key business activities and priorities that are important to Alcoa's operations and stakeholders.

• Create high-quality content across websites, newsletters, speeches, presentations, and briefing documents.

• Monitor media coverage and emerging issues, providing strategic advice to protect and enhance Alcoa's reputation.

What's on offer

• Attractive remuneration and variable bonus plan.

• Employee growth and development opportunities.

• Employee assistance program for personal support services.

• Alcoa Live Well program offering travel, lifestyle, health and wellbeing discounts.

• Generous leave entitlements including a leisure day off every 4-weeks.

• Salary packaging for a novated car lease, employee share plan and superannuation options

• Flexible work arrangements including partial work from home options.

What you can bring to the role

• Tertiary qualifications and/or extensive experience in journalism, public relations, communications.

• Extensive corporate affairs skills and experience, particularly in external communications and media relations.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills that allow you to successfully simplify complex and technical matters for a range of audiences that deliver impact and enhance understanding.

• Strong planning and project management capabilities, paired with a proactive and improvement-focused mindset.

• Ability to quickly shift focus between tasks and adapt to changing priorities on a regular basis

• Knowledge of the resources sector and Alcoa's geographical and socio-political setting in WA is desirable.

• Ability to fit into a busy team, take direction from others and to work autonomously as required

• Flexibility to travel to Alcoa's South-West operations to support communications activities as required.

• Current WA Drivers Licence.

Additional information

• Interviews may progress prior to the closing date, although all applications will be considered.

• You will only be contacted if you are shortlisted for an interview - this process can take up to four weeks from the closing date.

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About the Location

Alcoa Australia's company headquarters is located at 235 St Georges Terrace in Perth CBD, Western Australia, on Whadjuk Noongar land. The office is conveniently close to public transport and parking, and hosts employees from various business functions, including Commercial, Finance, Sustainability, Communications, and Human Resources, as well as expert teams supporting local and global locations. Our head office offers modern, open-plan working facilities and excellent end-of-trip amenities within a state-of-the-art building.

We are values led, vision driven and united by our purpose of transforming raw potential into real progress. Our commitments to Inclusion, Diversity & Equity include providing trusting workplaces that are safe, respectful and inclusive of all individuals, free from discrimination, bullying and harassment and that our workplaces reflect the diversity of the communities in which we operate.

This is a place where you are empowered to do your best work, be your authentic self, and feel a true sense of belonging. Come join us and shape your career

Your work. Your world. Shape them for the better.