Contract: Permanent
Full Time: 36.75 hours per week
Starting Salary: £60,797 per annum
Security Assessment: Negative Vetting Level 2 (Australian National)
Applications are sought from persons interested in employment at the Australian High Commission in London as Locally-Engaged Staff.
Please note: It is a condition of this appointment that any candidates applying for this position must be able to obtain and maintain an Australian National Security Clearance to Top Secret Level, and must therefore be an Australian Citizen. It is desirable, but not essential, for applicants to already hold a current Australian National Security Clearance.
About the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
The role of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) is to advance the interests of Australia and Australians internationally. This involves strengthening Australia’s security, enhancing Australia’s prosperity, delivering an effective and high quality overseas aid program and helping Australian travellers and Australians overseas.
The department provides foreign, trade and development policy advice to the Australian Government. DFAT also works with other Australian government agencies to drive coordination of Australia’s pursuit of global, regional and bilateral interests.
About the Job
The Australian High Commission is looking for an exceptional Public Affairs Manager. This is an exciting, varied and high profile role which will offer the successful applicant the opportunity to lead on the development and delivery of the High Commission’s Public Diplomacy strategy. This will include the High Commission’s public diplomacy strategy, media strategy, and management of the Post’s social media platforms.
Whilst the Public Affairs Manager is responsible for shaping the strategic thinking and direction of the High Commission’s public diplomacy portfolio this is equally a very ‘hands-on’ role. The successful candidate will be expected to balance providing expert public diplomacy advice (in consultation with senior officials in Canberra and at Post) with the management of a small team responsible for the delivery of the High Commission’s public diplomacy activities.
The successful candidate will:
- Ability to manage, organise and negotiate the Public Diplomacy personnel and financial resources and ensure financial probity requirements are met.
- Provide direction for Post’s public diplomacy strategy and plan, implement and evaluate its engagement, partnerships advocacy activities.
- Experience in setting priorities for a small yet busy team and managing the work flow to ensure efficiency and delivery of agreed outputs and goals.
- Experience in providing strategic direction and guidance for the High Commission’s public engagement, partnerships advocacy activities.
SELECTION CRITIERA
A. Ability to supervise the planning, development, implementation and evaluation of the High Commission’s Public Diplomacy strategy.
B. Demonstrate expert knowledge of the public affairs, media and cultural sectors and indicate how you would establish contacts to build on the range of interests in the United Kingdom.
C. Have excellent programme management skills; effectively managing resources, competing priorities and multiple projects to successful delivery.
D. Ability to effectively manage complex stakeholder relationships, both internally and externally, with the ability to influence, negotiate and represent the organisation at a senior level.
E. Ability to manage, organise and negotiate the organisation’s personnel and financial resources and ensure financial probity requirements are met.
The successful candidate will be flexible and prepared to contribute to the wider development of the work of the Australian High Commission.
In addition to salary, the Australian High Commission offers a range of benefits including a 9% non-contributory pension scheme, flex-time, 20 days leave in addition to UK and Australian public holidays to a total of 14 days and child care vouchers.
HOW TO APPLY
Applications close at midnight (GMT) on 20 December 2016.
Applications must be submitted to [email protected]
Late, incomplete and/or ineligible applications will not be considered for engagement.
Candidates interested in this position must submit a complete application, including the following documents as separate attachments:
- UK-Based Application Form (including an address to the each of the selection criteria A-E)
- Current CV / Resume
- Diversity and Equal Opportunities Monitoring Questionnaire
Please note:
Please check that your application form has been completed in full upon submission. In some circumstances application forms can come through blank and require resending.
Written responses to each of the six-selection criteria are restricted to a word limit of 250 words.
Referee reports will only be requested for candidates who are shortlisted and with an applicant’s prior approval. Incomplete or late applications will not be considered.
The Diversity and Equal Opportunities Monitoring Questionnaire will not be passed to the selection committee for this role. It will be held confidentially by the Human Resources Department for statistical monitoring purposes only. You may submit this attachment in a separate email if you wish to, [email protected].