We have an incredibly exciting opportunity for a talented and influential Communications professional to join us and lead the internal and external communications for our organisation. In this role, you will create, pioneer and lead our strategic Communications and help to grow our brand and enhance our name as the leading provider in sexual and reproductive health. This role will give you the opportunity to assume your place as a Communications expert, guiding and mentoring our organisation on all facets of Communication and giving you the chance to make your mark by assisting to project the voice of Marie Stopes Australia.

About us

We are an independent, non-profit organisation dedicated to ensuring sexual and reproductive health services are equally accessible to all people living in Australia. Marie Stopes Australia is the only national accredited provider of abortion, contraception and vasectomy services, and the country’s longest running provider of teleabortion. Our holistic, client-centred approach empowers individuals to control their reproductive health safely, and with dignity, regardless of their circumstances. Through active partnerships with healthcare providers, researchers and communities, our models of care ensure the total wellbeing of our clients is supported at every stage.

We love diversity and we welcome all people from diverse backgrounds, people with a disability, Aboriginal Australians, Torres Strait Islander peoples and those from the LGBTQI+ community with open arms. Because a better world is an inclusive world.

Your purpose

As a Senior Leader at Marie Stopes Australia, you will be responsible for the stakeholder engagement strategy as well as using your well-established network to build and maintain relationships to engage with Government, media and other stakeholders to improve and grow our brand and public relations. You will be instrumental in ensuring the Managing Director, Executive Team and other key internal stakeholders are trained and prepared adequately for media, and will be able to prepare opinion pieces, commentary, communications and other papers in order to deliver on our strategy as needed. You will also play a critical part in both incident and crisis communication control, management and support our social media presence and engagement as well as other areas of internal and external communication priorities including the employee and client journeys.

What we need:

• Fiercely Pro-choice and champion of women and pregnant people’s rights
• Passionate about de-stigmatising abortion, sexual and reproductive health
• A strong understanding of intersectionality, diversity and the impact of communication on staff, clients and communities
• Bachelor’s degree or appropriate postgraduate qualification(s) in corporate affairs, public policy, communications, journalism, market access, marketing, public relations or similar
• Experience of working with and influencing senior stakeholders, including Managing Director and Executive Teams Significant senior leadership experience in a clinical setting
• Well-respected reputation managing and building media relationships
• Excellent project management and organisational skills in a communications context
• Strong experience as a spokesperson and working with key spokespeople to support them in complex media environments
• Proven experience across communications strategy planning and implementation (media, social media, stakeholder relations, traditional media)
• Experience developing and delivering comprehensive media strategies
• Demonstrated ability to work respectfully and responsibly across multiple stakeholder groups
• Highly developed verbal, written and oral skills to promote and represent the organisation
• Proven record of successfully developing and managing effective working relationships with a wide range of internal and external senior stakeholders
• Well-developed understanding and proven experience working with Governments including Ministerial offices in complex environments
• Exceptional influencing and negotiation skills
• Proven ability in collaborating effectively across multi-disciplinary teams

What we'd like to see (but aren't essential):

• Knowledge and or previous experience in the sexual and reproductive health service delivery, not-for-profit or charity sector
• Proven ability as a media and public speaker trainer
• High profile crisis communications experience
• Experience of working with diverse communities and stakeholder groups across multiple regions and territories

What we're offering:

• Competitive salary
• Generous salary packaging (considerably reducing your tax)
• A wide array of partner discounts
• Access to reward platform
• Opportunity to join a national leader in providing safe and accessible sexual and reproductive health care
• Make a positive difference while being a part of an organisation with a global footprint

Who you're joining

At MSA we believe in children by choice, not chance. Our vision is to help all Australians take control of their sexual and reproductive health.

To be eligible for this position you must have an appropriate Australian work visa. Marie Stopes Australia does not provide work visa sponsorships.

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