• Join a leader in youth mental health, revolutionising services to our young people
• Help create a more unified mental health system
• Support one of Orygen’s biggest transformations and change management projects
• Full-time fixed term contract available for 12 months
• Generous NFP Salary Packaging and flexible work/life balance arrangements

About Orygen 

The why behind what we do is important. We believe that all young people deserve to grow into adulthood with optimal mental health. Everything we do is focused on this outcome. Orygen is leading and redefining what’s possible in global research, policy, education and clinical care. Find out more on our website.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a Communications Lead to join the Business Transformation team and be a part of one of the biggest transformations and change management projects to occur within Orygen.

If you have a passion for the field of youth mental health and want to make a real difference to the lives of young people and their families and carers and share Orygen’s values of respect, accountability, teamwork, excellence and innovation, then we would love you to join the Orygen team to revolutionise youth mental health.

The role and your impact

An exciting opportunity to support the realisation of many years of work to create a more unified mental health system of care for young people and their families. 

As the Communications Lead, you will work with the communications team to refine the transformation program approach and develop project/stream communication strategies to address the risks and impacts of change. Critical to this role is an understanding of stakeholder needs and perceptions and determining appropriate strategies for implementing project related communication deliverables. This also includes educating stakeholders about transformational changes that are leveraged across the program.

Working across and supporting both the program’s Change and Delivery streams, you will ensure sustainable and positive outcomes/ experience from project implementation.

About you

Essential to be successful in this role and to be considered, you will need to have a tertiary qualification in communications or a health-related discipline, and extensive experience working in communications in a health or research environment. In addition, you will have: 

• Ability to work with and support young people to share their stories in ways that empower them and advance organisational goals.
• Experience developing and delivering internal communications campaigns.
• Experience developing and managing content across multiple communications channels.
• Proven communication experience in complex programs.
• Highly developed organisational skills and the ability to work under pressure in a team environment to meet deadlines.

A position description is attached.

For more information, contact the GM, Business Transformation Amro Ibraheim at [email protected] using the subject line: Communications Lead enquiry via EthicalJobs for a confidential discussion. 

Salary and benefits

Generous salary commensurate with skills and experience of successful candidate plus 10% superannuation and access to NFP salary packaging with potential to significantly increase take home pay. 

Orygen is committed to providing an inclusive work environment that supports employees to achieve their career goals without compromising their life goals. With this in mind Orygen offers a range of employment benefits including generous paid leave, flexible work arrangement, an employee assistance program, well regarded supervision and a supportive team, career growth and development opportunities, purposeful work that makes a real difference to lives of young people and their families and carers and career opportunities within an organisation that is the leader in youth mental health.

How to apply

You are encouraged to submit your application as soon as possible. Orygen may close the advertisement before the closing date.

Orygen is dedicated to gender equality, diversity and inclusivity. We strive to continue to build a culturally safe workplace where our values underpin the way we work and our commitment to First Nations people of Australia, young people and their families, LGBTIQA+ people and CALD people. We strongly encourage applications from the First Nations people.

Recruitment Agencies - thank you for thinking of us, however we do endeavour to fill our opportunities through direct channels wherever possible. If we find that we do need agency assistance, we’ll be in touch.