Jenny Leong MP, the Greens Member for Newtown, is recruiting for a Senior Electorate Officer to join her and the Newtown team.

We are looking for an experienced person who shares our commitment to empowering and supporting communities to achieve positive change. If you are a communications or campaigning professional, enjoy working in a fast-paced and people-focused environment, have good political judgement, experience managing projects and a passion to change the world then we hope you will apply to join us in our Newtown Electorate Office.

About Us

Our small, high intensity team is passionate, dedicated, and experienced. We are committed to building strong communities, serving the good people of the Newtown electorate as well as working collectively towards significant social and environmental change.

Sometimes we help people one-on-one to resolve a specific issue with public housing maintenance, at other times we are organising and participating in community actions with tens of thousands of people. We work across local matters, statewide portfolios and global issues - we are committed to collective action, community empowerment and contributing to the diversity of people who are engaged and connected to politics.

About the role

The Senior Electorate Officer is expected to provide advice and day-to-day support to the Member of Parliament in their role as well as having carriage of policy areas, local issues and managing communication and internal projects. Importantly, you will share our commitment to the principles of the Greens and left politics.

The Newtown Electorate Office has four full-time ongoing positions, two Electorate Officers, a Senior Electorate Officer and a Research Officer.

The Senior Electorate Officer is responsible for providing high level strategic and political advice to the Member for Newtown and assisting to manage the Electorate Office. The role is responsible for developing and implementing campaign and communication strategies, including managing local engagement, social media and traditional media. Working with the Electorate Officers, the Senior Electorate Officer is also [A4] responsible for handling local issues and portfolio work as well as providing constituent support, maintaining relationships with community groups and organisations, conducting research and preparing briefs, and staffing Jenny at events.

Knowledge of the Newtown electorate and/or in one or more of the following portfolio areas is beneficial: human rights, anti-discrimination, or industrial relations.

We actively encourage First Nations people, people of colour, and people from culturally diverse backgrounds who are interested in this position to put an application in, even if you don’t think you meet every single bit of the selection criteria. We are committed to addressing the lack of diversity in politics.

This position is a full-time role. The NSW Parliament requires all positions to be initially recruited for 6 months. The position is then converted to ongoing permanent employment, subject to satisfactory performance.

While this is a full time position, we are open to those interested in part-time job share arrangements also applying.

Maximum total remuneration package $119,649 pa including salary ($93,745 – $106,025 pa), including an all incidence allowance ($9,787 pa) employer's contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading.[A5]

Salary will be commensurate with skills and experience.

Further information to assist you with applying for this position:

• Position Description
• Parliament of New South Wales website
• NSW Parliament pre-employment requirements

Selection Criteria (maximum two pages)

The following Selection Criteria form a specific part of the selection process. Applicants are required to address each of these essential criteria items specifically in their application.

Applicants are also invited to address any of the relevant desirable criteria that they meet.

Essential:

1. Demonstrated commitment to the core principles of the Greens as well as an interest in and understanding of Australian politics[A6] , and well-developed political judgement.
2. At least three years’ experience in a senior coordination, media advisor, organising role or similar.
3. Excellent oral and written communication skills, and the ability to analyse policy and legislation, and write briefs, media releases and speaking notes.

1. Experience in digital communications, including developing communications strategies, and developing high quality engaging written copy including email communications and social content.
2. Highly developed interpersonal skills and experience supervising the work of staff and volunteers, as well as collaborating with a range of external stakeholders.
3. Superior organisational skills as well as experience planning and delivering on projects to deadline in a high-pressure environment.
4. A high level of digital competency, including experience using social platforms, databases, websites and digital communication tools in a professional capacity.

Desirable:

• Experience in media relations, including developing responses to enquiries, writing media releases, developing and implementing media strategies and proactive media, and liaising with journalists
• Policy expertise in one or more of the portfolio areas (listed above)
• Skills in content development, such as text, video and images for publication, websites and social media
• Competence in content creation programs such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Adobe InDesign, and/or Canva

Technical assistance: Should you encounter any technical problems, please contact ‘I work for NSW’ helpdesk 1800 562 679 (Monday - Friday).

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