Engagement Officer

Engagement Contract Role, 6 months Temporary Contract Role- 6-Month Contract-Local Council Your Company The Engagement Officer plays a vital role in ensuring the Council is positioned as a high-profile, innovative and effective organisation. This position produces quality, effective communications and engagement plans and materials, and promotes authentic engagement practices. You will sit in a very supportive, high-performing team. Your manager will be there for guidance and training. Your Role
Establish constructive relationships with internal stakeholders to offer efficient communication and engagement guidance, and to support Council initiatives and events.
Provide engagement advice on a range of complex social and community issues.
Organise community involvement activities and events, guiding decision-making through the delivery of precise, prompt, and understandable information and resources.
Collaborate as a member of the Communications and Engagement team and liaise with other Council departments to maintain professionalism in all communication and engagement materials, helping to draft materials.
Based on engagement activities-you will need to update the council website and social media channels- updating the public etc on engagement activities.
Guide and support the delivery of effective and comprehensive consultation techniques from project inception to post-project review.
Your role will include community engagement face to face- i.e street walks/ engaging with business owners on recent construction updates/projects. You must have experience of doing this as genuine engagement work is essential.
You will work on simple events within the community- you will be supported in this, but must be comfortable in doing so.
Community consultation skills is necessary
Skills, knowledge and experience:
Experience in a similar role-degree in communications or relevant
Minimum 2-3 years experience in a community engagement facing role- dealing with a diverse range of stakeholders.
High level competency in the application of IAP2 principles and experience in the facilitation of community engagement design, delivery and evaluation.
Ability to engage with diverse communities of interest and to appreciate competing points of view.
Must be enthusiastic and have good communication skills.
Proven ability to assist in the planning, coordination, and implementation of effective communication and community engagement strategies and events.
Desirable:
Experience in a similar role within Government/ Local Council/ state gov or within construction/ development in the private sector
An understanding of mail chimp/ campaign monitor/ your say is not essential but definitely a plus!
To Note:
Need someone asap, so ideally you will be immediately available to start within the next 1-2 weeks.
There will be out of office hours- i.e an event from 5.30-7.30. The council are very flexible, and you can make these hours up another day/ start later/ fishing earlier. It must be OK with this. It will not be all the time but, can occasionally happen.
WFH available, 2 days at home, 3 days in the office.
If this role sounds like something you would be keen on, please send me an up-to-date CV to **************@hays.com.au. OR apply directly through this link. I look forward to working with you.
Please click here to apply.