Senior Media Advisor
The Role
This role is critical for the promotion and protection of our business' interests through active media engagement. It will require a capacity to develop and deliver media strategies; work collaboratively with the Victorian Department of Transport and Planning; cultivate positive relationships with industry groups and media outlets; and manage our reactive and proactive media requirements.
- Managing a full range of day-to-day media issues, in addition to crisis situations
- Designing and delivering proactive, positive public relations to meet business requirements
- Cultivating strong working relationships with journalists and commentators in order to identify and place public relations material
- Advising executive team members regarding participation in media and industry events
- Producing well-written materials that effectively communicate key strategic messages
About you
To succeed in this role, it is expected that you will have:
- Tertiary qualifications or experience in communications or a related field
- Excellent written and verbal communications
- Capacity to build relationships of trust and cooperation
- Clear and strategic thinking
- Planning, project management and reporting
- Proofreading
- Good judgment
- Positive, proactive, self-starter approach
We are dedicated to caring for each other, our passengers, and our communities. Yarra Trams is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity across our teams. In support of our Diversity & Inclusion Strategy, we encourage candidates with a disability, of all ages and people of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander heritage to apply.
Interested? Apply now!
Applications close 15/3/24