Manager, Portfolio Communications

**About the Department**

The department provides a wide range of learning and development support and services.

The department provides policy leadership, plans for the future of education in Victoria and leads key cross-sector collaboration. The department plays an important system steward role by providing support, guidance, oversight and assurance across early childhood and school education systems, as well as directly providing school education and 50 new early learning centres.

**About the Victorian School Building Authority**

The Victorian School Building Authority (VSBA) is part of the Department of Education. Established in 2016, it oversees Victoria's largest school building program since the state introduced free public education in the 1870s.

The VSBA upgrades and expands existing schools and plans, designs and builds new schools to meet enrolment demand. We also support schools to maintain their buildings and grounds by offering expert advice and coordinating maintenance programs and grants.

With Victoria recently introducing two years of funded kindergarten, the VSBA is also working with the early childhood sector on a massive kindergarten construction program.

**About the Division**

The Corporate Division provides corporate support to all VSBA teams and fulfills an important assurance and oversight role. They guide VSBA to achieve strategic objectives and ensure decision-making is transparent and accountable.

The division also coordinates communication and engagement with local communities about their school and early childhood building projects. They develop graphic design and video content, manage our social media channels, lead organisational customer service reform, distribute our e-newsletters and organise ministerial and other events for our projects. The Division also leads the organisational customer service reform and uplift program.

**About the Role**

The Manager, Portfolio Communications (Early Childhood Infrastructure) will manage a team to provide strategic communications support, devising communications plans for projects and briefing in digital, events and customer service teams within the Branch and Division. The team will work closely with delivery and planning colleagues across the VSBA to develop proactive communications and collateral to ensure local communities are informed and engaged. Where required, this may also include reactive communications and engagement with communities. This role supports and advises senior ministerial staff, including media advisers.

Key responsibilities include:

- Identify and develop communications to highlight VSBA initiatives and priorities and to reflect audience interests, needs and potential concerns about VSBA projects
- Assure brand and language consistency and integrity across all communications initiatives and materials
- Contribute to the provision of advice about the most appropriate means for communicating to target audiences
- Guide others in the development of communications
- Provide strategic advice across a range of activities, projects and programs to ensure a coordinated approach
- Develop VSBA's external communication strategies

All VSBA staff have a shared responsibility to meet the same service standards outlined in the VSBA Customer Service Charter. Our goal is to make every interaction with the VSBA a positive one for our customers, colleagues and key partners regardless of our individual role or team.

**Attributes**

**Desirable**Qualifications and Experience**
- Essential: Bachelor's degree in Communications, marketing or a related discipline
- Desirable: considerable/demonstrated experience similar role within government

**Further Information**

Applicants requiring adjustments can contact the nominated contact person.

**Applications close 11:59pm on Tuesday, 11 March 2025