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As a leading global towage provider, Svitzer provides a crucial link in the Australian and Papua New Guinean supply chain. When you join us at Svitzer, you’ll be part of a team of professional and dedicated people who work together every day to provide our customers with safe, reliable, and efficient marine services in ports and terminals across Australia and Papua New Guinea. At Svitzer, safety comes first.
We are looking for an intelligent, curious, and motivated individual to support our Corporate Affairs, Communications and Industrial Relations functions in a paid Student Assistant position. This is an ‘all-rounder’ role that offers valuable work experience and provides learning and development opportunities for the right candidate, with ongoing mentorship, training and a variety of tasks to help build their future professional career.
This role is based in our Balmain office and offers approximately 12-15 hours per week; however, the hours can be flexible as we are happy to work around study commitments and exam obligations during the week and year.
What You Can Look Forward To
You will be part of a passionate, inclusive, collaborative, experienced and hardworking team and will be provided the opportunity to gain exposure and experience to a range of tasks and disciplines that will build your foundational skills in communications, corporate affairs, and Industrial Relations – and set you up well for a range of future professional career paths.
What You Will Do
Reporting to the Regional Head of Communications & Corporate Affairs, your key responsibilities in this position will include:
Internal / Employee Communications & Campaigns: Writing stories, producing content and helping to look after our internal channels (including Sharepoint, Yammer, Teams and employee communications app).
Assist with development and roll-out of creative, internal engagement campaigns around health and wellbeing, safety, decarbonisation/sustainability and internal policy changes.
Digital Communication & Social Media: Assist with management of our website and social media accounts through content production (written and visual) to support these channels.
Corporate Affairs: Assist with stakeholder management by tracking policy and government issues
Industrial Relations: Research and review legislation changes and provide summary briefs and insights on these developments.
What You Will Need To Succeed
To be successful in this position, you will be able to demonstrate:
Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal
Ability to build strong relationships and work collaboratively within diverse teams
Willingness to learn and be challenged
Ability to create effective and exciting content
Have a flexible and adaptable approach with exceptional time management skills
Maintain awareness of industry news and trends relevant to our business
Be a naturally creative person with great ideas and a drive to succeed
The successful candidate will be someone who is a strong writer (communications writing as well as business writing), has a good balance of creativity alongside an ability to research, analyse and demonstrate critical thinking. Ideally, this will suit someone studying Communications, Politics, Business, Law or a combination of these areas of study.
Sound like you? Then please apply and put your best foot forward in a strong cover letter that gives us an insight into you and why you would be a great fit.
Building a Diverse Workplace
In Svitzer we value the diversity of our talent and will always strive to recruit the best person for the job – we value diversity in all its forms, including but not limited to gender, age, nationality, race, sexual orientation, disability, or religious beliefs. We are proud of our diversity and see it as a genuine source of strength for building high performing teams.
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that members from some under-represented groups are less likely to apply for jobs if they don’t meet every single qualification. At Svitzer we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles, and we are excited about hearing from you!
How to Apply
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