• Full time: 38 hours per week, 12-month position
• Salary: $91,756.59 to $104,311.42, plus 11.5% superannuation and five weeks annual leave, with 17.5% loading
• Location: Darwin, Northern Territory. We will also consider remote working arrangements for excellent applicants.

The role

The Environment Centre (NT) is looking for a very experienced and energetic Media and Communications Specialist, who will develop ECNT’s external profile and network of influence as the peak environmental organisation in the Northern Territory. The role will drive the promotion of ECNT across all its work areas and campaigns, and will lead on communications, story-telling and media strategies that galvanise broadscale support for ECNT’s campaigns and vision of a future where the Northern Territory’s nature thrives.

The Media and Communications Specialist at ECNT will play a crucial role in advancing our mission by strategically managing and enhancing our media presence.

The Media and Communications Specialist will develop proactive media strategies and moments, cultivate relationships with journalists and outlets across Northern Territory, and nationally, and drive our reactive media by identifying and securing opportunities for ECNT to cut through in the daily media cycle.

In particular, the successful applicant will, working closely with the Executive Director:

• Develop and pitch proactive media moments and stories that elevate ECNT’s campaigns around climate change, land clearing, and protected areas.
• Monitor the daily news cycle and identify opportunities for ECNT to engage in reactive media.
• Cultivate and maintain relationships with media outlets and influencers.
• Collaborate with campaign teams to integrate media strategies and ensure consistent messaging.
• Produce high-quality written and visual content for press releases, op-eds, and online platforms.
• Develop and implement crisis communication plans, monitoring media trends.
• Develop and execute media strategies to enhance ECNT’s public profile and credibility.
• Identify opportunities for speaking engagements and media partnerships.
• Monitor media coverage, track key performance indicators, and provide regular reports on outreach and campaign coverage.

ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT CENTRE NT

The Environment Centre NT is the peak environmental organisation in the Northern Territory (NT). We have been working to protect the NT environment since 1983. Our vision is for ‘thriving nature and a sustainable future for all Territorians’.

We are the trusted, independent, voice on environmental issues in the NT and we fearlessly hold governments and industry to account in pursuit of our vision. We have expanded rapidly in the last 18 months in response to escalating environmental threats (including the climate and extinction crises). We are currently running a number of cutting-edge campaigns across our key strategic work themes: mining, climate, freshwater and biodiversity that require a sophisticated and multi-layered communications strategy.

For more information, please visit our website: https://www.ecnt.org.au/.

ECNT acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the unceded lands and waters upon which we work and their role in caring for country for millennia, now, and into the future.

Selection criteria

• Tertiary qualifications in Communications, Public Relations, journalism or a related field or equivalent
• Proven experience in media relations, with a focus on environmental or advocacy issues.
• Strong understanding of climate, land clearing, and protected areas policies and issues.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Experience with crisis communications and issues management is desirable.
• Ability to work independently.
• Experience in managing and developing social media, email and website strategy and content.
• A willingness and flexibility to travel regionally.

A position description is attached.