Communications Manager
The role provides expert advice and cohesive specialist support to senior executive and business units to ensure the community and stakeholders.
Summary about this job
Government - State
Company: Department of Planning
Location: Sydney
Work type: Full Time
Salary: Up to $140,996 Package salary ($121,917 - $140996)
Phone: +61-8-3240-4668
Fax: +61-2-8248-8132
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Detail information about job Communications Manager. Terms and conditions vacancy
Job Title: Communications Manager
Job Grade / Classification: Clerk Grade 11/12
Employment Type: Temporary, Full Time (12 months)
Location: 320 Pitt St., Sydney 2000
Agency overview
The Department of Planning & Environment is the lead NSW Government agency in planning for a growing NSW. The Department is going through an exciting period of organisational and operational change.
The Department’s vision – “Planning for growing NSW: inspiring strong communities, protecting our environment” – provides the benchmark for our partnership and leadership approach to engaging and working collaboratively with key State and Local Government, community and industry stakeholders to deliver better outcomes in the areas of planning, local government and the environment.
The Department’s two related agencies - the Office of Environment & Heritage and the Office of Local Government - support the conservation and protection of the environment and an effective local government sector in NSW. Several other entities associated with the Department include the Environment Protection Authority, statutory trusts responsible for zoos, parks and gardens, independent assessment and planning bodies, and development corporations.
DPE supports flexible workplace polices.
Primary purpose of the role
The Communication Manager leads a team and drives activities to support the development and implementation of communication and engagement, with a focus on a specific high-profile business line. The role drives activities to support a best practice community and stakeholder engagement approach across relevant industry and sector groups.
The role provides expert advice and cohesive specialist support to senior executive and business units to ensure the community and stakeholders have opportunities to inform specific program and other agency service delivery.
The role manages a small team who provide communications strategy and products across a full range of communications channels also including digital and social media.
Essential requirements:
Agency experience is welcome. Willingness and capacity to occasionally travel to outer suburban and regional locations, and to work outside of core business hours in the evening and on weekends
To be successful in the role, ideally you will have:
Tertiary qualifications in communications, public relations, policy or related discipline and/or relevant equivalent experience
Please read the following documents prior to preparing your application:
Job Notes:
A Recruitment Pool may be established for future temporary and ongoing roles with similar focus capabilities. The Recruitment Pool may be available to hiring managers from DPE and other NSW Public Sector agencies over a 12-month period.
To Apply:
Complete all the questions in the online application. Two of the questions will require you to provide specific examples from your experience (4000-character limit per question). These questions are shown below. Do not address these in your cover letter
Q1. Outline a particularly challenging problem that you have worked on. What did you do to get a better understanding of the problem? How did you contribute to resolve the problem?
Q2. Tell us about an instance when you needed to organise time and resources to complete a project. How did you identify the resources necessary? What did you do to organise the time for those involved to complete the project? How did the project progress?
The information provided in your application needs to show how you meet the focus capabilities and other essential requirements of the role. (Refer to the role description for details about the capabilities and the associated behavioural indicators. The role description also lists the essential role requirements.)
Our commitment to diversity:
The Department of Planning and Environment values diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all ages and genders, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, culturally and linguistically diverse groups and those with a disability.
Applications Close: Sunday, 22 July 2018 11:59pm
Should you require further information about the role please contact; Alison Barnard on (02) 9373 2869 if you have any enquiries regarding the recruitment process please contact Carlo Santos on (02)9585 6460.