About this job
Your Opportunity:
You have the chance to play a pivotal role in sharing how, through building, expanding and improving schools for the growing Queensland population, we are helping to deliver quality education to kids around the state. Your natural creative talents mean you can jump from writing briefing notes and function profiles, to assisting with urgent issues and crisis communications, or taking on community engagement or internal comms. In this busy role you'll need relevant experience coordinating and supporting a broad range of engagement, communication and event activities. Detail driven, you'll be responsible for liaising with relevant business units, various stakeholders, delivery partners, and staff to produce results through effective communication activities across the Infrastructure Services Division.
About the Role:
Responsibilities include, but not limited to;
- Researching and preparing well written and engaging communications content for a variety of audiences and mediums including the provision of content for websites and social media platforms.
- Planning, managing and prioritising communications and engagement activities to successfully meet deadlines and reporting requirements within tight time constraints.
- Event planning including the preparation of event specific materials including briefing notes, function profiles, program schedules and event run sheets.
- Stakeholder relationship management using consultative, interpersonal skills to successfully communicate and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.
- Providing high level advice to clients, staff and management within the division to assist with urgent media issues and crisis communications.
- Working effectively and collaboratively within a team environment to meet deadlines and establish work priorities to maximise efficiency.
Highly desirable skills and experience;
- Tertiary qualifications in communication, public relations, journalism or related discipline with subsequent relevant experience; or an equivalent combination of relevant experience and/or education/training in the industry.
- Experience working in communications team, on stakeholder engagement on various projects, campaigns and initiatives in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to work with various internal stakeholders to support the achievement of business objectives through communication activities.
- Strong interpersonal, verbal and written skills, including a demonstrated ability to write with clarity and precision for multiple audiences.
- Demonstrated ability to maintain various communication channels and creative content for both digital and print.
Please refer to the attached role description for any mandatory requirements for this position.
How to Apply:
- Please attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (one of whom should be your current supervisor); and
- A maximum 2 page covering letter to explain your suitability for the role and addressing the following questions:
- When faced with multiple deadlines that require input from different people, how do you meet the deadlines while ensuring accuracy of communications content? Please provide an example.
- How do you nurture key business relationships? Please provide an example.
- When undertaking stakeholder or community engagement, how do you measure the success of the engagement initiative? Please provide an example
We welcome all applicants to share any support needed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive.
Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.
Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.
When working in regulated employment an employee must have a current Working with Children Clearance (blue card) issued by Blue Card Services.
Salary rate shown is reflective of full-time (1.0 FTE).
The Department of Education is a family inclusive workplace. Click here to find out more about our Inclusion and Diversity strategies.
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>Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.
When working in regulated employment an employee must have a current Working with Children Clearance (blue card) issued by Blue Card Services.
Salary rate shown is reflective of full-time (1.0 FTE).
The Department of Education is a family inclusive workplace. Click here to find out more about our Inclusion and Diversity strategies.
#LI-PRIORITY