Community Engagement Officer

**The Role**:
Excellent permanent opportunity for a Community Engagement Officer to join our Asset Development team to support community and stakeholder engagement initiatives during the development, construction and operational phases of renewable energy generation and other assets.

The incumbent will be accountable to the Stakeholder and Community Engagement Manager and will be required to travel to regional areas and interstate as required.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Produce content for a variety of channels including websites, presentations, letters, flyers, briefings and social media
- Contribute to the design and delivery of community engagement events and marketing and advertising materials
- Communicate appropriately and effectively with a wide variety of stakeholder and community members, including responding to stakeholder enquiries, objections and complaints in a timely manner
- Develop and maintain relationships with journalists from local and regional media outlets, draft responses to media enquiries and lead the proactive writing of media releases
- Development of online and in-person engagement tools and mechanisms (surveys etc)

**About You**:
To be successful in this role, you will have gained a few years' experience in community relations or stakeholder engagement, preferably in the development of renewable power generation assets such as wind or solar in agricultural / rural areas. You possess highly developed interpersonal and communication skills to effectively engage with the community and you are able to design and produce communication and engagement materials for a wide range of audiences. You are collaborative in your approach, persuasive when needed and action oriented.

**Next Steps**

All applicants must have unlimited rights to work in Australia.

**About ENGIE ANZ**

ENGIE Australia & New Zealand, a joint venture with Mitsui & Co Ltd, is accelerating the transition to a carbon-neutral economy by providing innovative, sustainable energy solutions to households, businesses, communities and cities.

Our mission is to accelerate and support the transition towards a carbon-neutral economy, through reduced energy consumption and more environmentally-friendly solutions.

We have 1,100MW of low-carbon generation capacity and more than 2,000MW of renewable energy under development. Our retail business, Simply Energy, has more than 700,000 customer accounts around Australia.

We're also delivering sustainability solutions to cities, precincts and universities through our ENGIE Net Zero Energy Solutions team.

ENGIE's trading arm, Global Energy Management & Sales (GEMS) provides long-energy supply agreements, energy trading, risk management and asset management services to business customers across the ENGIE ANZ portfolio.

**Our Business Units**

Thermal & Supply
- Simply Energy is one of Australia's fastest growing energy retailers, with more than 700,000 electricity and gas customer accounts in Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales, Western Australia, The Australian Capital Territory and Queensland.
- 1,000MW of low-carbon generation capacity located in South Australia
- The Hazelwood Rehabilitation Project is a dedicated business stream leading the safe, stable and sustainable rehabilitation of the former Hazelwood Power Station and Mine, which ceased operation in 2017

Renewables
- Development, operation and maintenance of large-scale assets - predominantly in wind, solar and industrial-scale battery storage - as well as integrating hydrogen as an alternative energy source.

Energy Solutions
- ENGIE Net Zero Energy Solutions builds long-term partnerships that deliver net zero outcomes for communities.
- By integrating infrastructure, technology and services, we design, build and operate environmentally-friendly solutions, such as Green Mobility and energy storage, that support and accelerate the transition to a carbon-neutral economy.

Global Energy Management & Sales (GEMS)
- Optimises the Group's assets to contribute to the value creation of the 4 ENGIE Group Business Units. This is achieved by connecting upstream assets to our customers and accelerating the development of Renewables and fostering the acceleration of Renewables through a PPA portfolio approach and harmonising pricing, risk & structuring, market operations and optimisation.
- Ensures a secure and sustainable energy future for B2B clients in line with a low carbon strategy by supporting customers in the transition towards a carbon neutral economy by offering them innovative, competitive and green solutions. As well as through providing best in class risk management services tailored to our customers' individual needs.
- GEMS has expertise in energy supply and global commodities; risk management and market access; green & low carbon solutions; and asset management and flexibility services.