• Fixed Term Position: 2 years
• Full time: 38 hours per week

Take the next step in your career by joining one of Australia’s most loved and trusted public hospitals committed to health equity for all women.

• Utilise your communications and stakeholder engagement expertise in this rewarding role
• Full-time, two-year role with competitive salary packaging
• Values driven culture and supportive team environment
• Work from home and Parkville, with Monthly Accrued Days Off (ADOs).

About the role

The Senior Communications Advisor is responsible for developing and implementing communications and marketing strategies and initiatives to increase the Women’s profile and impact and engage effectively with its stakeholders and audiences, particularly patients, the Department of Health and health professionals.

This hands on role has a focus on communications, public information campaigns and stakeholder engagement strategies for significant projects, including the new public fertility service, led by the Women’s, and the new state-wide Egg and Sperm Bank to be located at the Women’s in Parkville.

About you

To be successful in this role you will have:

• A degree in communications or related discipline and solid experience in a similar role, preferably within a not-for-profit, government or similar organisation.
• Demonstrated experience developing and implementing successful communication strategies, stakeholder engagement plans, public information campaigns and branding projects.
• Highly developed written and verbal communication skills and ability to adapt communication styles for a variety of audiences.
• Demonstrated experience in effectively managing and mitigating risks in relation to stakeholder relationships, the achievement of marketing and communication timelines and objectives.
• Outstanding inter-personal and team building skills, and ability to foster collaborative relationships with colleagues and stakeholders from a range of backgrounds and disciplines.
• Well-developed time-management skills and experience working autonomously to effectively and successfully manage concurrent communication and marketing projects.

Our offering

When you join the Women’s you unite with talented people who share your purpose and unwavering determination to advance health outcomes for all women. You will find a workplace that is collaborative, progressive and passionate about learning and working together in multi-disciplinary teams to ensure you find the exceptional in your everyday.

Our staff benefits program includes salary packaging, on-site car parking and childcare (subject to availability), alongside a range of discounted financial, lifestyle and wellbeing benefits provided by our staff benefit partners.

To learn more, please visit: here.

We are proudly Breastfeeding Association accredited. The Women’s is committed to gender equity principles and our people have an awareness of and sensitive approach to violence against women/family violence matters.

The Women’s is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and social inclusion. We welcome applications from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, including those from Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders, people with lived experience of disability and people who identify as LGBTI.

It is a policy of the Women's to provide reasonable adjustments for persons with a disability. If you need assistance or adjustments to fully participate in the application or interview process, please contact the hiring manager listed under 'Contact Person'

Ready to make the move?

For more information about the position, please see the Position Description attached and apply online by selecting “apply now” below.

All appointments to the Women’s are subject to a satisfactory clearance of Working with Children Check and Police Check.

COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement

Please be aware that in line with the Health Minister's Covid-19 Mandatory Vaccination Order, all workers at the Women's regardless of role, will be required to be fully vaccinated (3 doses) for COVID-19 or hold an acceptable medical exemption.

Influenza Vaccination

In line with the Health Services Amendment (Mandatory Vaccination of Healthcare Workers) Act 2020, some health care workers are now required to have their flu vaccination to work in health care. Evidence of vaccination is required. As this role fits into category C of the departments risk ratings, applicants are strongly encouraged (although not required) to be vaccinated against influenza.

If you would like to receive this information/publication in an accessible format (such as large print or audio) please call our HR Enquiries line on: 03 8345 2080, or email [email protected], using the subject line: Senior Communications Advisor enquiry via EthicalJobs.