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Senior Communications Advisor

Job Title: Senior Communications Advisor
Contract Type: Permanent Recruitment
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REF: BRLRZB115693
Contact Email: rebecca.berney@beyond.co.nz
Job Published: about 2 years ago

  • Join a local organisation committed to providing excellent services
  • Use your seasoned initiative and strategic mind to deliver effective communication
  • Help communities prosper through storytelling and relationship building

We’re looking for a Senior Communications Advisor to join a local, community focused public sector organisation.

This is an opportunity to provide thought leadership, take initiative and work collaboratively with a variety of community members and organisations.

As the Senior Communications Advisor you will lead and implement effective strategic communications support and enhance the organisation’s reputation through best practice communications and engagement.

You’ll offer advice and provide communication planning and delivery for a variety of issues and work across a range of internal and external stakeholders.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Leading the development and implementation of communication strategies for a range of key projects and reputational issues
  • Working with project managers to ensure a consistent approach to our delivery of communication to affected communities during key projects
  • Building and maintaining strong working relationships with key journalists and media to support proactive and reactive media engagement
  • Using initiative to identify opportunities to tell the organisation’s story through appropriate channels to reach target audiences

You will bring to this role:

  • Experience with planning and delivering multi-channels communications including social media and web content
  • Experience working with media, including responding to enquiries and proactively pitching stories
  • Experience working with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders
  • An ability to think strategically, advise and influence others
  • Excellent writing and editing skills and experience presenting complex information clearly and simply to a range of audiences

Please note this organisation is based in Petone, Lower Hutt.

If you are interested in this position, please APPLY NOW!

Or contact Rebecca Berney– rebecca.berney@beyond.co.nz

Quoting Ref No: 115693