At AustralianSuper, we truly care about our colleagues. We know work and life are intertwined.That’swhy we support the diverse needs of everyone and have policies that enable us all to thrive and be truly flexible.We ensure diversity is celebrated for the opportunity it provides us all to learn and grow and deliver better outcomes for members. We are dedicated to building a high-performance environment underpinned by a strong risk culture, ensuring we deliver the best outcomes for our members.
Your New Role
The Public Relations Lead is a key member of the team responsible for leading and coordinating public relations campaigns, consumer media engagement and content development in the Corporate Affairs area.
This 3-month role will help position, promote and protect the Fund’s reputation in earned and owned channels with a particular focus on consumer media.
Key duties include but are not limited to:
- Support the development and execution of public relations strategies and plans to position and promote the Fund through consumer media, owned and other channels.
- Build and enhance relationships with key consumer media representatives to support the successful execution of the Fund’s public relations and consumer media activity.
- Monitor the consumer media landscape to support the provision of insights to the Chief Strategy Officer, Head of Corporate Affairs and the Head of Corporate Affairs and Public Relations, to inform the Fund’s positioning on key issues and help identify opportunities to enhance the Fund’s reputation through public relations activity and consumer media engagement.
- Support the execution of the Corporate Affairs & Public Relations content plan, ensuring it is consistent with the Fund’s broader corporate communications strategy, compliant, and is in line with the Fund’s corporate narratives and messaging.
- Ensure Corporate Affairs & Public Relations content, including but not limited to website, social media, and other digital content is accurate, up-to-date and compliant with the Fund’s regulatory obligations and internal guidelines.
- Ensure risk is managed in accordance with the Fund’s Risk Management Framework including risk identification and management, risk profiling, risk reporting and incident management.
- Where appropriate, ensure third party suppliers and service providers are managed in accordance with the Fund’s Supplier Relationship Management Framework.
- Work with service providers and internal stakeholders to secure strong governance arrangements, including reporting and service standard frameworks.
What You’ll Need
- Minimum 5 years’ relevant public relations experience preferably in an agency setting or in similar in-house role in a highly regulated industry.
- Demonstrated experience executing public relations activity that achieves measurable outcomes and drives engagement with consumers.
- Proven stakeholder management skills.
- Exceptional written and verbal communications skills.
- Demonstrated experience developing compelling and effective digital content in a highly regulated environment.
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and engage positively with colleagues.
Life at AustralianSuper
AustralianSuper is committed to colleague development, and we support our people with ongoing learning, coaching and training, as well as career opportunities across our expanding global organisation. We offer generous leave entitlements and promote a blended working environment in which all roles can flex, and we’re happy to discuss what this looks like for you.
We cultivate a workplace that champions safety, respect, inclusiveness and diversity. We are committed to supporting our diverse workforce in a way that is inclusive and embraces diversity in all its forms. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process or the role, please let our recruitment team know.
What’s Next
Apply now, if you share our values of Energy, Integrity, Generosity of Spirit and Excellent Outcomes and would like the opportunity to work in a challenging, growing and rapidly evolving team to deliver outstanding results.
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Australian or New Zealand citizenship or Australian permanent residency status is required.
Agencies please note: this vacancy is being managed directly by AustralianSuper’s Talent Acquisition team. We will contact our preferred agency partners should we require additional support. Thank you.
