EL1 Stakeholder Manager

About the Organisation
Our client is a Federal Commission that provides trusted and independent intelligence on Australia’s skills and jobs through data and analysis on the labour market, skills needs and VET pricing and performance. Its communications and engagement team manages the website, LinkedIn, Twitter, media and events for the Commission. It also work with policy teams to create engaging content and collateral.
 
About the Role
Key responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to:

• Stakeholder mapping
• Stakeholder engagement
• Seeing out appropriate events for the Commissioner to attend as keynote speaker.
• Managing event support for the Commissioner and senior staff, such as developing event briefs and liaising with stakeholder organisations to ensure event requests are appropriate for the Commissioner or other senior staff.
• Liaising between Commissioner’s staff, event organisers and others to ensure speaker information is provided in a timely manner.
• Manage promotion of event speeches to internal and external audiences via website, newsletter, social media and media as appropriate.
• Support the communications team with content, proofing and other communications activities as required.

In this role, you will support the management of major stakeholders, particularly with regards to events. You will be highly organised and able to manage the production and distribution of communications materials. You will have well developed interpersonal and communication skills and experience in responding to enquiries, establishing and managing stakeholder relationships. It would be highly desirable for the successful candidate to have experience in translating complex data or a previous communications role in a technical agency.

The candidate will have:

• Well-developed stakeholder engagement skills – capability to create and maintain strong, productive and collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• The ability to respond flexibly to changing priorities in a dynamic work environment and deliver high quality results
• Strong interpersonal skills – the ability to lead others and work productively as a member of a team
• The ability to work independently on tasks, exercise judgement and understand the impact of the wider environment on their own work, team objectives and other sections.

Essential:

• Prior experience in managing event speaking requests from initiation to implementation.
• Experience in stakeholder engagement and communications.

Desired:

• Digital communications experience is desirable, including social media and website management
• Previous experience working in a technical agency or demonstrated technical writing skill preferred.

How to Apply
Should you be interested in this role please send your CV via SEEK or call Francesca Avelluto on 0261627332 for a confidential discussion (or email favelluto@dfp.com.au)

DFP welcomes applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds and people with disability. In addition, DFP will provide reasonable adjustments for individuals with disability throughout the recruitment process. If you identify as a person with disability and require adjustments to the application, recruitment, selection and/or assessment process, please advise via adjustments@dfp.com.au or 1300 337 000 and indicate your preferred method of communication (email, phone, text) so we can keep in touch and meet your accessibility needs.

Note: You may be required to provide evidence of your COVID-19 vaccination status.