OVERVIEW

Work type: Full time
Salary: $134,593 - $180,115
Grade: VPSG6
Occupation: Education and Training
Location: CBD
Reference: VG/1850527

CAPABILITIES

To be successful in this position you will:

• Bring strong people leadership skills – you model ethical leadership and build a positive culture that enables others to perform at their best. You define role expectations, monitoring performance and provide constructive feedback that supports consistent capability building.
• Deliver meaningful outcomes through a culture of continuous improvement and innovation, utilising metrics and evidence to encourage solutions that deliver on stakeholder expectations. You build trust in partnerships to enable successful co-creation of solutions and navigate differences to reach decisions.
• Enable delivery through well-developed critical thinking and problem-solving skills, demonstrating strong business acumen. You consider wider departmental or organisational context when resolving issues or developing business plans and identify recurring problems and implement solutions to deliver tangible business outcomes. You maximise the value of contracts or service delivery agreements, using your knowledge of procurement and finance to inform decision making.
• Build authentic relationships to deliver exceptional internal and external stakeholder management and solutions that respond to their underlying needs. You identify issues and create mutually beneficial partnerships that support the objectives of an organisation, providing expert advice on communications strategies to influence target audiences.
• Work flexibly and collaboratively to deliver outcomes, altering or adopting new strategies where existing approaches are not delivering effectively against objectives. You identify opportunities to work with other teams, sharing knowledge and information.

Desirable Qualifications and Experience

• Significant experience working in a dynamic, high performing communications or marketing function in a large or complex organisation.
• Proven experience developing and leading high-performing teams to build capability and culture and achieve outcomes.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of communications, marketing and digital best practice and trends, including digital and traditional channels, as well as media engagement.
• Proven ability to strategically engage and build positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders at all levels through effective communication.
• High-level problem-solving capability to resolve or escalate issues or queries.
• A tertiary qualification in communications, marketing or similar.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Are you a strategic and passionate communications leader looking to make an impact in the education sector?
An opportunity exists to join the Academy as the Manager, Communications and Marketing to lead a team of communications, digital and marketing experts to deliver on the organisation’s objectives.

As the manager, will be responsible for leading the CM team to create transformative communications and marketing strategies that raise public awareness of the capability and status of school leaders and teachers, build brand, and support registrations into professional learning programs. This includes:

• Leading an Academy wide communications and marketing strategy and providing specialist expertise in creative and impactful communications practices.
• Leading a high performing team to deliver exceptional service, providing insight to opportunities for improvement in processes and system enhancements
• Effective engagement with internal and external stakeholders to identify strategic opportunities for alignment of activities that offer mutual benefit.
• Project management and oversight of planning resulting in the production of audience appropriate content across multiple platforms and channels to drive engagement.
• Utilising evidence, data and metrics to inform effective business planning and reporting.
• Acting as a thought leader and expert advisor on communications, marketing and digital best practice.