Marketing & Communications Advisor

Job Description

Job description: $117,386 per annum plus Superannuation Two positions. Both Full time, Fixed term to 29th March 2026 WorkSafe Geelong Headquarters (Hybrid – 3 days office attendance per week) About the role The Marketing team is responsible for researching, developing, delivering and evaluating WorkSafe's mass awareness culture and behaviour change campaigns that address a variety of occupational health and safety issues. The Marketing Communications Adviser works with the Senior Marketing and Communications Advisers and Manager, Marketing along with the broader External Affairs Division to deliver marketing campaigns and ensure consistency and integration of programs and messages. The role will support the integration of key learnings from research and analytics processes in all relevant external communications and brand marketing activities. Key accountabilities include: Assisting the Advisors and the Manager, Marketing to plan and develop targeted ‘through–the–line’ evidence–based campaigns in line with business objectives and priorities including behaviour change, awareness and promotional campaigns. Collaborate across the business to fully understand initiatives, issues and implications, ensuring that marketing solutions support business objectives and are in line with WorkSafe’s values. Collaborate with the Social Research team to ensure all activities are evidence-based and thoroughly evaluated and that insights are effectively translated into marketing activity. Work with external suppliers such as creative, media buying, graphic design, print and direct marketing agencies to ensure delivery of marketing and communications activities within agreed time and budget parameters. Work with the Senior Marketing and Communications Advisers to ensure effective internal and external stakeholder engagement through relationship building and liaison with identified stakeholder groups. About you You are an experienced Marketing and Communications professional who wants to make a difference. Your excellent stakeholder engagement skills allow you to quickly develop relationships, both within and external to our organisation. You are a team-oriented person who enjoys working in a fast-paced and issues-rich environment. You will have: Highly developed verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate issues or messages clearly, simply and effectively to a range of audiences. Experience in media planning and buying and strong knowledge of media reporting measurements across traditional and digital media. Demonstrated ability to build effective working relationships, with highly developed influencing and negotiation skills. Demonstrated experience in a similar role in an issues-rich environment. What’s next? Applications close at 11:00pm on Tuesday 11th February 2025. Click the link to apply, and join us in making a difference to Victorian lives. Only people with the right to work in Australia may apply for this position. You may be required to undergo a National Police Check (and/or Medical Assessment) as part of the recruitment process. For further enquiries please contact Natasha Zaluski via email Working with Us At WorkSafe, we aspire for every employee to feel connected, safe and valued in their team, for teams to feel valued in the workplace, and for WorkSafe to be valued in the community. We believe that a diverse workforce is the key to delivering the best outcomes for the Victorian community and strongly encourage applications from all people, including First Nations people and people with disability, diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, sexualities and genders. About us WorkSafe's Strategy has our core purpose front of mind – reducing workplace harm and improving outcomes for injured workers. We don’t shy away from the importance of our purpose to the Victorian community, that’s why we have a stated ambition to be world leading. We want Victoria to be the safest place to work in Australia and one of the safest in the world; and we aspire to be a world leader in return to work after a workplace injury. WorkSafe are striving to build a diverse workforce that reflects the Victorian community we serve. #J-18808-Ljbffr