Title: Manager, Communication & Stakeholder Engagement
VIDA Roads
VPS 6 Manager, Communication, Stakeholder Engagement and Issues Management
- Two roles available - Hybrid working environment.
- 2 year fixed term, VPS 6 $142,790 - $191,084 + super & benefits.
- This role will be located at Essendon Fields, 180 Lonsdale St and site offices.
About VIDA ROADS
VIDA Roads is delivering a massive investment in the state’s roads. We’re delivering major new road projects across metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria while improving the roads people rely on every day.
The West Gate Tunnel Project will give Melbourne a second freeway link between the west and the city – providing a much-needed alternative to the West Gate Bridge and a vital second river crossing.
North East Link will fix the missing link in Melbourne’s freeway network with new 6.5 km tunnels from Watsonia to Bulleen. We’re also overhauling the Eastern Freeway and completing the M80 Ring Road at Greensborough.
Road Programs are also delivering dozens of new roads, bridges, road widening projects and major freeway upgrades.
Come and be a part of our centre of roads excellence.
Join us in building better connections for Victoria by:
- Leading, coaching and developing a high-performing Communications and Stakeholder Engagement team, setting clear priorities, allocating resources effectively, managing performance and fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement.
- Providing active leadership, direction, and management of a Communications and Stakeholder Engagement team, including resource allocation, performance coaching, and professional development.
- Advocating on behalf of communities and stakeholders to avoid and minimise project impacts to the greatest extent possible and limit reputational and stakeholder risk.
- Identifying key reputational and stakeholder risks for projects, developing strategies to control, minimise and manage reputational risk.
- Working with project teams and contractors to manage and quickly resolve issues that have the potential to affect the reputation of the project, VIDA and the Victorian Government.
- Managing construction partners’ performance to ensure communications and engagement activities are delivered to VIDA Roads' requirements, and in alignment with contract specifications and the project’s Communications and Stakeholder Engagement Management Plan and sub-plans.
- Navigating competing project priorities, emerging issues and changing delivery requirements to ensure the team remains focused on activities that deliver the greatest value and manage organisational risk.
This is a leadership role for a strategic and agile communications professional who thrives in a fast-paced and complex environment. You will lead a team responsible for supporting the delivery of some of Victoria's most significant road infrastructure projects, balancing competing priorities, managing complex stakeholder issues and providing trusted advice to project teams and senior leaders.
The Manager, Communications and Stakeholder Relations partners closely with project teams and construction partners to identify and manage reputational and stakeholder risks, helping to shape project outcomes and minimise impacts on communities and stakeholders. The role requires sound judgement, strong problem-solving skills and the ability to navigate ambiguity, competing priorities and emerging issues.
As a key member of the project delivery team, you will lead and develop a high-performing team of Communications and Stakeholder Engagement professionals, ensuring resources are focused on the highest priorities and supporting the successful delivery of projects in line with business and contractual requirements.
The Manager, Communications and Stakeholder Relations reports to the Deputy Director, Communications and Stakeholder Engagement and operates within a matrix project delivery structure.
About you
- Extensive experience in communications, stakeholder engagement and issues management, with a demonstrated ability to develop and deliver strategies in a major project and/or complex, high-profile environment.
- Proven experience leading and developing high-performing teams, including setting priorities, managing competing workloads and delivering outcomes through others.
- Strong judgement, problem-solving and relationship management skills, with the ability to identify and manage reputational and stakeholder risks, navigate ambiguity and respond effectively to emerging issues and changing priorities.
- A relevant tertiary qualification in communications, public relations, media, public policy or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
- A current Victorian Driver Licence and willingness to travel to project sites weekly and attend community and stakeholder events, including occasional out-of-hours activities.
These opportunities are for a two-year fixed-term.
For more details about this opportunity, please take a look at the Position Description here.
What can we offer you?
We are committed to creating a workplace that inspires and engages you – we want you to be a powerful contributor to this wonderfully diverse and dynamic organisation. Our offering continues to grow but here
is what we already have in store for you:
- VIDA Roads welcomes flexible working arrangements.
- Access to annual health checks, including skins checks and flu shots.
- Access low-cost gym memberships for yourself and family at over 200 facilities via Fitness Passport.
- Access to Thrive Gateway, our employee benefits platform is your once stop shop for wellbeing as well as savings and discounts at hundreds of retailers.
- We're committed to supporting our team members and their families in improving mental health and wellbeing. Our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) provides confidential counselling and advice for our team members and their families for work and personal issues.
- Annual salary increases and incremental performance-based payments over the course of your employment.
- Leave loading of 17.5% payment on top of your base salary when you take annual leave and ability to purchase additional leave.
VIDA Road’s commitment to Gender Equality
- As part of VIDA Road’s commitment to diversity and inclusion, we are making gender equality a key priority at VIDA Roads.
- We are actively looking to attract and promote women into non- traditional roles and putting support structures in place to help them succeed,
- As part of part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, VIDA Roads has launched a Gender Equality Action Plan – a blueprint for improvement and our progress will be tracked annually. Watch Dian, one of our talented Senior Project Managers share her thoughts on why diversity is important and what involvement she has had in the VIDA Roads Gender Equality Action plan!
How to Apply
If this sounds like the opportunity for you, apply now via the ‘Apply’ button and follow the prompts. Applications to include a CV and preferably Cover Letter and will not be accepted via email. There is no need to provide any type of response to Key Selection Criteria separately, but we do encourage you to outline relevant experience and motivation for applying in your cover letter.
The successful candidate will be required to undergo pre-employment checks which include a national
police check and misconduct screening.
To be part of something meaningful and leave a positive legacy connecting Victorian communities,
apply for a role with us today.
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