Aps6 Events And Engagement Officer

As one of the Australia’s largest providers of human resources solutions, Chandler Macleod has a proven track record of unleashing potential in people and companies. For over 40 years Chandler Macleod’s recruitment business has connected leading-edge projects and employers with outstanding business professionals.

Our client is seeking to engage an APS6 Events and Engagement Officer on a contract for 12 months, with 2 X 6 months extension option.

Our ideal candidate:

We are looking for someone who is proactive, passionate about the work they do and a self-starter. You will be collaborative, innovative, friendly and want to learn new things. You will be happy to turn your hand to whatever needs doing but can recognise not everything needs doing right away. You will be able to lead at all levels and work across an organisation to bring your colleagues along the Events and Engagement journey.

As an events specialist, you will have a proven ability to lead and manage the delivery of events. You will be able to build and manage high-quality internal and external relationship management aligned with business outcomes and provide advice on best practice event advice to business areas in line with the Agency’s User Engagement Strategy.

Using an agile project management approach you will develop, coordinate, execute and evaluate

Specific duties/responsibilities:

• Use a project management approach to deliver Events and support high-quality internal and external relationship management, working with the Strategic Engagement Officer, Strategic Insights.
• Provide advice on best practice strategic event delivery to business areas in line with the Agency’s User Engagement Strategy through the development of light-touch event frameworks for business areas to follow.
• Manage and track engagement and corporate outreach activities for the Agency, including maintaining, coordinating and reporting on a calendar of upcoming activities and the strategic engagement program.
• Provide best-practice event support for priority Agency Events and other key engagement activities.
• Support the development of content to reach relevant user groups, and the development of standard operating procedures and workflows to better deliver outcomes and improve existing processes and procedures for Agency’s event capability.
• Work with Agency, cross-government and cross-jurisdictional stakeholders to deliver projects and new measures.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of the events Agency participates and provide recommendations for ongoing improvement.

Role requirements/qualifications:

• At least 5 years' experience in a strategic engagement, Events and/or communications role. Experience in a government events role would be highly regarded.
• Demonstrated skills and experience in events, including strategy development, execution and evaluation, coordination, working with communications teams to support the development of communications campaigns and designed materials for event promotion, user or audience research, and design thinking.
• Demonstrated ability to produce audience and channel appropriate content to a high standard (for example, for web, social media, event listings etc.)
• Experience managing and delivering in-person, virtual and hybrid format events.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver events on time, within scope and within budget.
• Demonstrated ability to take a user-centred approach to event design and a project management approach to event management and delivery.

Desirable:

• We would consider certification from the International Association for Public Participation (IAP2)

Security Requirements:

• To be eligible applicants Must have active Baseline Clearance.

If you feel you are a suitable candidate submit your application by hitting “Apply for this job”. Alternatively, you can call Isaac Benjamin on 02 6268 9*** or email **************@chandlermacleod.com for further discussion.

Please Note – The due date for this submission is 25/01/2024.

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