Wollongong City Council

Corporate Communications Officer

At Wollongong City Council we have a steadfast commitment to creating an Extraordinary Wollongong. We are in an exciting period of transformation and focused on delivering exceptional services, infrastructure and facilities for our community.

Our strength is the diversity of our people. Together our responsibility is to create an inclusive place where everyone is welcome, valued and belongs. We lead with courage, openness and curiosity. Our conversations and actions celebrate diversity, inclusion and belonging. Learn more about us here.

About the Role

Are you a natural storyteller with the knack for writing fresh, accurate and concise content to a tight deadline? Do you know what makes people tick, and how to drive positive workplace engagement? Wollongong City Council has an exciting opportunity for you!

We're looking for an experienced Corporate Communications Officer to join our Communications & Marketing team. We are the team who provide integrated communication and marketing services to deliver organisational communications, media and marketing content, strategies and initiatives.

You'll be an enthusiastic and collaborative communicator who thrives in a fast-paced environment where multi-tasking is the norm, and you understand that being a collaborative team player is the way to get things done.

In this role, you'll use your information-gathering skills to develop and deliver strategic, integrated internal and corporate communication plans, providing content that makes a genuine impact.

You'll work closely with Senior Leaders, Executive and other key stakeholders to develop and implement organisational messaging and communications plans, and you will monitor and report on the effectiveness of these tactics.

This is a Permanent full-time position, salary from $102,533.29 up to $122,520.09 per annum plus superannuation.

What You will be doing:

• You'll be developing, implementing and reviewing internal communications plans and channels to ensure they're in line with Council objectives, and reporting on the effectiveness of communications plans and channels.
• You'll work closely and collaboratively with key stakeholders from across Council, including the General Manager, Executive and Senior Leaders, to support the awareness, engagement and delivery of organisational culture and change initiative and the delivery of employee experience.
• You'll understand Council's customer-centric focus and develop, maintain and improve corporate and direct communications for targeted stakeholders.

About you:

You're a self-motivated team player who loves a collaborative work environment and knows that good communication has a big impact. Each day you bring a can-do attitude to your worklist and enjoy the challenge of balancing multiple deadline-driven projects at any one time. You've a keen eye for detail and bring significant experience in using a range of tactics that turn written content into compelling material which meets the needs of different stakeholders and audiences.

Benefits of working at Council:

• We provide flexible working arrangements such as hybrid working and flex- you just need to ask!
• We are value-led, support and encourage personal and professional growth, recognise and reward performance and embrace change.
• We provide generous leave provisions including 5 weeks annual leave per year of service
• Long Service Leave after 5 years
• We are committed to providing a safe working environment for all, (everyone, every day and everywhere) and make available wellbeing programs to support mental, physical and social wellbeing of our staff to be at their best.
• Access to Fitness Passport

Interested?

For more information, click on Apply to be redirected to Wollongong City Council's E-recruitment site.

Contact Kilmeny Adie, Media Liaison Officer, on (02) 4227 7280 for questions related to the job

For assistance in submitting your application, please contact the Talent Acquisition Team on (02) 4227 7065.

Applications close 11:59pm, Wednesday 11 December 2024.