• Salary Packaging - generous tax concessions
• Modern central Collingwood office / with WFH options
• 24 months contract

The Communications Officer – Media Advisor will support the Strategic Communications Manager, Communications and Digital Services team activities, and is primarily responsible for media requests, relations and advice, preparing media releases, editorials, media kits, key messages and talking points, facilitating media training, monitoring media and proactively identifying media opportunities. In addition, the role will support the development of multimedia products including video, podcasts and photo, and other communications projects and areas as needed including social and digital media.

Key responsibilities include:

• Develop, coordinate and deliver media plans to raise profile of organisation initiatives.
• Facilitate, prioritise and provide advice on media and speaking engagement requests.
• Monitor media landscape to identify media and campaign opportunities and potential risks
• Develop and maintain relationships with a range of media and stakeholders

About you

The ideal candidate will have:

• At least three years’ experience in a relevant role.
• Skills and experience developing and implementing proactive and reactive media plans.
• Exceptional writing, editing and verbal skills, and ability to translate complex information
• Exceptional writing, editing and verbal skills, and ability to translate complex information.

Get in touch

For more information regarding this role, please contact [email protected] using the subject line: Communications Officer - Media Advisor enquiry via EthicalJobs.

Other employment related information

Employment is subject to satisfactory and ongoing police records check (international where relevant), and Working with Children Check.

About Us

We are a centre of expertise, policy advice, training, innovation and leadership in Aboriginal health and wellbeing.

Visit us here for more info: https://www.vaccho.org.au/

About Salary Packaging

As a Public Benevolent Institute (PBI), we are able to offer generous tax concessions to our staff. For further information, please click here.

VACCHO is committed to welcoming and embracing the diversity of cultures, identities, gender, sex, and sexually diverse identities and expressions, experiences, beliefs, and values of all people.

We believe in the right for all people to be treated with the respect and dignity at all times, and that all people who work for, govern or undertake work at or visit us should at all times feel safe and included.

A position description is attached.