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Events and Communications Coordinator

• Employment Type: Full time (35 hours per week)
• Duration: Contract until June 2025
• Remuneration: Level 7 $110,073 - $119,132 (depending on experience) + 17% super + leave loading
• Location: Kensington, NSW (flexible hybrid work)

About UNSW:

UNSW isn’t like other places you’ve worked. Yes, we’re a large organisation with a diverse and talented community; a community doing extraordinary things. Together, we are driven to be thoughtful, practical, and purposeful in all we do. Taking this combined approach is what makes our work matter. It’s the reason we’re one of the top 20 universities in the world and a member of Australia’s prestigious Group of Eight. If you want a career where you can thrive, be challenged and do meaningful work, you’re in the right place.

Why your role matters:

The Events & Communications Coordinator role sits within the Division of Societal Impact, Equity and Engagement and delivers events and communications within UNSW Engineering. This role will work closely with the Centre for Ideas and Corporate Communications teams to ensure best practice, coordination with other Faculties and Divisions and sharing of ideas.

The Events & Communications Coordinator will report to the External Engagement Manager and has no direct reports.

Responsibilities:

• Participate fully within the External Engagement Team and wider Division, contributing to creating a respected and valued resource. Deliver a highly customer-focused service and demonstrate commitment to excellence and continuous improvement.
• Implement the agreed events plan and coordinate and deliver all aspects of the event management lifecycle for events in UNSW Engineering
• Use agreed event platforms, processes and adhere to agreed brand and event policies in implementing your workplan for the year.
• Implement the agreed communications plan in your designated area. Achieve agreed outcomes and identify opportunities to improve the quality or efficacy of internal communications.
• Provide advice to stakeholders in your area on communications, including most appropriate channels to deliver effective and targeted messages to relevant audiences.
• Ensure consistent, timely and seamless messaging reaches relevant stakeholders within UNSW. Collaborate with key stakeholders and clients across UNSW to identify emerging issues, initiatives and opportunities.
• Work with Faculty stakeholders to determine the right mix of events, and to scope, design and develop successful event concepts to meet agreed goals.

• Use agreed methods to track the impact and ROI of events and to achieve agreed outcomes; identify and suggest opportunities of improvement for the quality and efficacy of events across the University.
• Plan, manage and complete all aspects of approved communications to ensure quality standards and deadlines are met in collaboration with key stakeholders.
• Apply specialist knowledge of communications, including practice, policy and processes, to provide strategic advice around Divisional objectives, as well as to address changing requirements, capabilities and goals across DEE and the wider faculties. 

Skills and Experience:

• A relevant tertiary qualification with demonstrated experience or an equivalent level of knowledge gained through any combination of education, training and experience.
• Demonstrated experience of delivering and measuring live and digital events and internal communications programs that support transformational change within a complex organisational environment.
• Proven ability to produce written internal and external communications on for diverse audiences across a variety of mediums 
• Advanced experience delivering a variety of events and sound understanding of the steps involved in working with event owners, presenters, stakeholders and audiences.
• Proven ability to manage projects and to develop, plan and implement successful events.
• Understanding of the target audience, with a highly effective writing style in high-impact messaging to internal audiences.
• Demonstrated experience in distilling complex information into simple messages for communication to a diverse group of stakeholders.
• Proven ability to liaise effectively with internal and external stakeholders, to achieve desired outcomes.
• Excellent time management and organisational skills, with the ability to navigate through competing deadlines.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the proven ability to influence and negotiate with stakeholders to achieve successful outcomes.

Further details can be found in a copy of the Position Description linked below or via https://www.jobs.unsw.edu.au/

Benefits and Culture:

People are at the core of everything we do. We recognise it is the contributions of our staff who make UNSW one of the best universities in Australia and the world.

Our benefits include:

• Flexible Working Options.
• Career development opportunities
• 17% Superannuation contributions and additional leave loading payments
• Additional 3 days of leave over Christmas period
• Discounts and entitlements (retail, education, fitness)

For further details on the benefits, please visit https://www.jobs.unsw.edu.au/lifestyle-benefits

To Apply: If this is of interest to you, please submit your application online: CV, Cover Letter and responses to the Skills and Experience outlined in the position description.

Sponsorship is not available for this role, full Australian working rights are required on application.

Contact: Amy Denney -Talent Acquisition Coordinator a.denney@unsw.edu.au

Please apply directly through the website, applications sent to the contact above will not be accepted.

Applications close: 11.55pm, 16^th July 2024

UNSW is committed to equity diversity and inclusion. Applications from women, people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, those living with disabilities, members of the LGBTIQ+ community; and people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, are encouraged. UNSW provides workplace adjustments for people with disability, and access to flexible work options for eligible staff.

The University reserves the right not to proceed with any appointment.