Teach For Australia would like to acknowledge the many Traditional Custodians of the lands throughout Australia. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging, for they hold the memories, the traditions, the culture and hopes of Australia’s first peoples.

About Teach For Australia

Our vision is an Australia where education gives every child greater choice for their future. The mission is to grow a community of leaders committed to equity for children and young people, by recruiting and developing exceptional people to teach and lead across Australian schools.

Teach For Australia provides:

• Opportunity to work with an engaged community of educators - working to close the education gap
• Flexible work practices, hybrid working arrangements with the option to work from home regularly
• Allowance and time off work for professional development
• Additional day off for your birthday, and gifted end of year clousre days
• 13% superannuation

Please note: This is a 12 month fixed-term role

About the Position

The Media and External Affairs manager takes on senior managerial responsibilities for delivery of impactful, high-quality representation of Teach for Australia to external stakeholders and media audiences. This includes management of the media functions for TFA, including identifying media opportunities and handling media issues, and providing strategic advice and assistance that grows the media capability and capacity of the organisation.

This role is also responsible for representing TFA to external stakeholders within the Government Relations and External Affairs remit, and providing strategic external engagement advice and assistance to functions across TFA.

The role requires leading the media strategy, and management of relationship/coordination of work with the Media Advisor within the Marketing Team; alignment to strategy and activity with the Government Relations and Media function; and coordination and leadership. It also provides support in leading targeted government relations initiatives across Australia.

qualifications and experience

Essential:

• Media engagement and issues management – Demonstrated experience building strong media relationships, managing reactive and crisis media, and supporting senior leaders as effective spokespeople.
• External affairs and organisational influence – Experience delivering external engagement, public affairs and high-profile events that support government relations and advocacy outcomes.

Skills, Attributes and Knowledge:

• Reputation and risk management – Proven capability to identify and manage reputational and brand risks, providing sound judgement and advice in high-stakes or sensitive contexts.
• Strategic media leadership – Ability to design and deliver an integrated media strategy aligned to organisational, policy and government relations priorities.

Primary Accountabilities - Media:

• Develop and implement TFA media strategies in line with org strategy
• Lead media engagement
• Support and grow media capability and capacity across TFA functions
• Coordinate relationships with Marketing & Recruitment teams

Primary Accountabilities - External Affairs:

• Developing, delivering and supporting best-practice, effective External Engagement strategy and procedures that serve TFA’s needs and interests
• Coordinate with and support Government Relations workstream
• Identify, mitigate and manage Reputation/Brand risks
• Identify and deliver external engagement opportunities

For further details about the role please find the Job Description attached.