An exciting opportunity to join our team and play an important role in the Victorian Academy of Teaching and Leadership (Academy).

This is a Fixed Term opportunity from an ASAP start to 3 October 2025.

At the Academy, we are passionate about meaningful and exciting work that has an impact on education and student outcomes. Our shared purpose is to create and offer evidence-informed professional learning programs, events and initiatives designed to take Victoria's highly skilled teachers and school leaders from great to exceptional and advance the quality and status of teaching and school leadership.

We care about the quality of our work, demonstrate collective responsibility for continuous improvement and support each other to do the very best we can every day to achieve our goals.

The Academy is a learning organisation that provides opportunities for employees to grow. We have a positive culture that we are building together, where people feel supported, valued and heard.

About the Division

The Academy Services Division provides a range of specialist services to colleagues across the Academy, and to program participants (potential and current) to ensure high quality professional learning, and an optimal experience for our stakeholders. The Division's four specialist areas include learning design, data evaluation and evidence, communications and marketing, and participant and program support.

The Communications & Marketing (CM) team is responsible for supporting the Academy objective to influence public perceptions of the profession, for managing the Academy brand and its channels, and connecting participants into relevant programs through targeted marketing and communications.

About the Role

Are you a strategic and passionate communications leader looking to make an impact in the education sector? An opportunity exists to join the Academy as the Manager, Communications and Marketing to lead a team of communications, digital and marketing experts to deliver on the organisation's objectives.

As the manager, will be responsible for leading the CM team to create transformative communications and marketing strategies that raise public awareness of the capability and status of school leaders and teachers, build brand, and support registrations into professional learning programs. This includes:

• Leading an Academy wide communications and marketing strategy and providing specialist expertise in creative and impactful communications practices.
• Leading a high performing team to deliver exceptional service, providing insight to opportunities for improvement in processes and system enhancements
• Effective engagement with internal and external stakeholders to identify strategic opportunities for alignment of activities that offer mutual benefit.
• Project management and oversight of planning resulting in the production of audience appropriate content across multiple platforms and channels to drive engagement.
• Utilising evidence, data and metrics to inform effective business planning and reporting.
• Acting as a thought leader and expert advisor on communications, marketing and digital best practice.

Capabilities

To be successful in this position you will:

• Bring strong people leadership skills - you model ethical leadership and build a positive culture that enables others to perform at their best. You define role expectations, monitoring performance and provide constructive feedback that supports consistent capability building.
• Deliver meaningful outcomes through a culture of continuous improvement and innovation, utilising metrics and evidence to encourage solutions that deliver on stakeholder expectations. You build trust in partnerships to enable successful co-creation of solutions and navigate differences to reach decisions.
• Enable delivery through well-developed critical thinking and problem-solving skills, demonstrating strong business acumen. You consider wider departmental or organisational context when resolving issues or developing business plans and identify recurring problems and implement solutions to deliver tangible business outcomes. You maximise the value of contracts or service delivery agreements, using your knowledge of procurement and finance to inform decision making.
• Build authentic relationships to deliver exceptional internal and external stakeholder management and solutions that respond to their underlying needs. You identify issues and create mutually beneficial partnerships that support the objectives of an organisation, providing expert advice on communications strategies to influence target audiences.
• Work flexibly and collaboratively to deliver outcomes, altering or adopting new strategies where existing approaches are not delivering effectively against objectives. You identify opportunities to work with other teams, sharing knowledge and information.

Desirable Qualifications and Experience

• Significant experience working in a dynamic, high performing communications or marketing function in a large or complex organisation.
• Proven experience developing and leading high-performing teams to build capability and culture and achieve outcomes.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of communications, marketing and digital best practice and trends, including digital and traditional channels, as well as media engagement.
• Proven ability to strategically engage and build positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders at all levels through effective communication.
• High-level problem-solving capability to resolve or escalate issues or queries.
• A tertiary qualification in communications, marketing or similar.

Further Information

To apply for this position, your application must include your current CV and a separate 2-3-page document addressing the Key Selection Criteria.

For more details regarding this position please see attached position description.

The department values diversity and inclusion in all forms - gender, religion, ethnicity, LGBTIQ+, disability and neurodiversity. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. For more information about our work, working for the Department, diversity and inclusion, and our employment conditions visit the Department website and our Diversity and Inclusion page

Applicants requiring adjustments can contact the nominated contact person.

Information about the Department of Education's operations and employment conditions can be located at www.education.vic.gov.au.

For further information pertaining to the role, please contact Gerard O'Shaughnessy - Director, Academy Services Division via (03) 7022 1244 or [email protected].

Preferred applicants may be required to complete a police check and may be subject to other pre-employment checks. Information provided to the Department of Education will be treated in the strictest confidence.

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Applications close 11:59pm on Monday 31 March 2025