Senior Communications Officer

• Dynamic NFP organisation - healthcare
• Broad communications opportunity
• $85,000 - $100,000 + super + salary packaging benefits + flexibility (hybrid)
• 12 month contract initially with potential for permanent
• Sydney CBD location (hybrid)

Dynamic and highly reputable charity, not-for-profit organisation is seeking a Senior Communications Officer to join their collaborative team.

Reporting into the Media and Communications Manager, the Senior Communications Officer sits within the National Communications team and is responsible for developing and executing national media and communications activity.

The Senior Communications Officer will demonstrate strong media relations, written communications and stakeholder engagement skills and a passion for purpose-led storytelling.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Develop and deliver media and communications strategies
• Align communications and engagement with change management plans and stakeholder engagement plans
• Develop media materials including key messages, media releases, pitches and written commentary. Ensure effective and consistent messaging and brand alignment
• Prepare briefing materials and key message documents for national spokespeople ahead of media engagements and interviews
• Facilitate media training to key national spokespeople
• Translate complex content or concepts into accessible, culturally safe and relevant communications, tailoring messaging for different audiences
• Develop and adapt copy for paid, earned, and owned channels, ensuring content aligns with audience needs, channel tactics, and project milestones. Ensure content drives awareness and engagement, for incremental service uptake.
• Act as the key point of contact for project and federation stakeholders, gathering communications requirements, refining iterative website content, key messaging and FAQs, managing approvals, and implementing feedback to deliver final, fit-for-purpose materials
• Drive media relations activity, including pitching stories to relevant journalists, responding to media enquiries, coordinating and briefing spokespeople, and developing written responses and quotes for publication.
• Work with relevant program streams and stakeholders to ensure all communications activity is aligned with program status and governance. Collaborate with internal teams to ensure timely and effective implementation of communications strategies.
• Support in the identification and mitigation of federation-wide risk regarding communications activity.
• Drive reporting on communications strategies to key stakeholders, including monitoring and measurement of proactive, reactive and incidental coverage, press office and earned media performance.
• Identify key insights to optimise strategies and execution.

To be successful, you will have:

• Tertiary qualifications in communications, public relations, journalism or related field.
• 5 or more years' experience in communications or media relations in either an in-house or agency environment.
• Experience delivering media relations for behaviour change, service delivery or social marketing campaigns
• Passion for public relations, media relations and marketing.
• Interest in accurately communicating about health issues, support services and improving equity
• Excellent attention to detail
• Highly developed organisational skills
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills
• Excellent judgement and interpersonal skills
• Excellent news sense and understanding of Australian media
• Experience in complex stakeholder communications or engagement
• High computer literacy, including experience with word processing, spreadsheet, database and presentation programs
• Experience communicating about health or science and/or exposure working in the not-for-profit sector will be highly regarded

You will be entitled to great benefits including generous salary packaging benefits, flexible work options and the opportunity to work from home, discounts on retail outlets and a free in-house Wellness program.

This is a unique career opportunity for a passionate Communications professional to join an industry leader working with an engaged, high performing team with who offer an inclusive and collaborative culture.

Please contact Holly Ash for a confidential discussion -