• Full time, 2 year contract
• Hybrid work arrangements available
• Work for a multi-award-winning iconic community health organisation
• $113,214.41 Annual Salary+Superannuation+Salary Packaging

About the role

Are you a strategic communicator with a passion for health equity and social justice? At cohealth, we're on a mission to amplify the voices of those most impacted by systemic inequities and drive meaningful change in the health and social sectors. We're looking for a Strategic Communications & Media Advisor to help us tell our story, engage our stakeholders, and position cohealth as a leading voice in health and social equity.

As the Strategic Communications & Media Advisor, you'll play a critical role in shaping how cohealth is seen and heard. You'll craft innovative communication strategies, lead media relations, and foster relationships with key stakeholders to drive advocacy and enhance our reputation. This is a unique opportunity to amplify the voices of our communities, ensuring their stories inspire action and create lasting impact.

Your key responsibilities include:

• Develop comprehensive media and public relation strategies to highlight cohealth's work, elevate the voices of people with lived experience, and further enhance cohealth's reputation
• Respond to all reactive media enquiries and lead cohealth's proactive media approaches
• Partner with the Communications Manager to develop, implement and evaluate cohealth's communications strategy
• Develop and implement communication and engagement strategies for projects aligned with cohealth's strategic priorities
• Foster and strengthen relationships with key communication and engagement stakeholders, including government, media, community partners and other health organisations

Our ideal candidate:

This is a dynamic, hands-on role suitable for a strategic communicator with a collaborative spirit and talent for storytelling that builds trust and inspires action.

Our ideal candidate has:

• A tertiary qualification in media or communications and/or significant demonstrated experience
• Demonstrated experience leading, or contributing to, the development and implementation of an organisation's communication and media strategies
• Experience working closely with internal and external stakeholders to provide strategic advice on best practice media approaches
• Understanding of the Australian media landscape, and experience in reactive and proactive media relations

​So why cohealth?

cohealth leads the way in reducing health and social inequity in partnership with people and the communities in which they live. Named Premier's Health Service of the Year (Primary) and the Supporting LGBTIQ+ Health Service at the Victorian Public Healthcare Awards, cohealth's 1000 staff demonstrate courage, leadership, innovation, and agility in their commitment to providing inclusive and culturally safe health services that protect the human rights of all people of all gender identities, sexualities, ages, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, faiths, and abilities.

Our inclusive workplace culture enables staff to bring their whole selves to work, where uniqueness is valued, and people experience a feeling of belonging. Our aim is for everyone to thrive in their role. Please click here to find out more.

What cohealth offers:

• Exciting Parental leave benefits
  • cohealth offers primary carers 14 weeks paid parental leave upon completion of only 6 months of continuous service
  • Eligible co-workers will continue to receive superannuation on unpaid parental leave as well
• Salary packaging to suit you - tax free amount of up to $15,900 p.a (mortgage, rent, or credit cards) and a further $2,650 p.a (meal, entertainment expenses and holiday accommodation) alongside generous reward programs from our salary packaging providers. Find out more on salary packaging here
• Novated Leasing available
• Counselling services for you and your immediate family through our EAP-Access provider, and mindfulness, resilience, and wellbeing programs
• We offer inclusion, equality, and opportunity in a workplace where making a difference counts (based on our guiding principles and values)

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check (NCCHC), a Working With Children Check (WWCC), complete a Pre-Employment Declaration Form, evidence of legal rights to work in Australia, and evidence of immunisation.

Successful applicants will be required to provide evidence of immunisation assessment including Influenza within 12 weeks of commencement [B]. This is in accordance with the Victorian Minister of Health Mandatory Vaccination Orders and legislated requirement for influenza vaccination.

Application Process

Click on apply now to be directed to our careers page. You will be asked to upload your CV/ resume and Cover Letter.

This campaign will close on the mentioned date at 10.00 PM.

If you have any questions regarding this role, please contact Kim Parkinson [email protected], using the subject line: Strategic Communications & Media Advisor enquiry via EthicalJobs.

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