Director, Communications Advice

ABOUT THE BRANCH

The Communications Branch provides advice and assistance on the department's internal and external communication activities, including management of key intranet and external websites.

It is also responsible for the whole-of-Government co-ordination of advertising campaigns including governance, procurement arrangements and campaign development support.

The Communications Advice section provides policy advice on the Government's information and advertising framework and assists with the co-ordination and development of whole-of-government advertising campaigns. We provide advice to entities on:

• the development and implementation of campaigns;
• communications best practice and;
• mandatory campaign advertising governance arrangements.

THE OPPORTUNITY

This is an exciting opportunity to support the development and co-ordination of campaigns delivered by the Australian Government. You will be working with departments across government providing advice on all aspects of campaign development support and evaluation, including advice on governance and contract management.

Leading a small team, you will have a high level of autonomy, be involved in all aspects of campaign development support and governance; and take a leading role in briefing Government and other senior stakeholders on campaign development, governance and best practice communications.

In this role, you will:

• Support departments on the full range of campaigns from awareness, entitlement and policy focused campaigns through to social marketing and behaviour change campaigns.
• Support the management and procurement of consultants from creative, market research, public relations, media, multicultural and First Nations specialist agencies.
• Foster good working relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders across Government including campaign managers, policy officers and senior public officials.
• Deliver best practice communications advice on campaign development and evaluation.

For detailed information about this role, including the job specific capabilities, please refer to the downloadable vacancy pack, which can be accessed by clicking the hyperlink at the bottom of this page.

• Under section 22(8) of the Public Service Act 1999, employees must be Australian citizens to be employed in the Australian Public Service (APS) unless the Agency Head has agreed otherwise, in writing.
• Successful applicants will be required to undergo the process to obtain and maintain, or continue to hold the required security clearance level for the role as indicated in the downloadable job pack. All Finance staff are required to have a minimum baseline security clearance prior to commencement.

This recruitment process is being used to fill current and future vacancies. A merit pool of suitable applicants may be created which may be used to fill future vacancies should they become available over the next 18 months.

As a central agency of the Australian Government, the Department of Finance (Finance) plays an important role in assisting government across a wide range of policy areas to ensure its outcomes are met. Finance supports the government's ongoing priorities through the Budget process and fosters leading practice through the public sector resource management, governance and accountability frameworks. Finance plays a leading role in advising the government on many of its strategic priorities. We do this through our professional and considered approach to providing advice, developing policy, delivering services and engaging with our clients and stakeholders. Finance's key areas of focus are: - Budget - Business Enabling Services - Commercial - Governance and Resource Management