Senior Communications Officer

Queensland Curriculum & Assessment Authority; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Queensland Curriculum & Assessment Authority is seeking a Senior Communications Officer in Brisbane to lead and deliver strategic communications across the organisation. You will craft engaging content for diverse channels and coordinate multimedia publications with creative teams.

The role emphasizes collaboration with senior management, stakeholders, and statewide campaigns while driving innovation to strengthen the QCAA brand.

Qualifications

• Leads strategically and aligns work with the organisation's vision.
• Shares ideas, seeks feedback and uses data to inform delivery.
• Collaborates across backgrounds to build enduring relationships.
• Contributes to a positive, results-driven culture.
• Pursues professional learning to upskill across the organisation.
• Demonstrates professionalism and integrity when delivering outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement and evaluate creative communication and engagement plans on time and budget.
• Write high-level, accurate content for newsletters, websites, fact sheets, social media, presentations and other publications.
• Liaise with photographers, videographers and graphic designers to create multimedia content/publications.
• Contribute to statewide marker recruitment campaigns and a student awards.
• Maintain productive relationships with the QCAA's senior management and external stakeholders.
• Foster innovation in communication and marketing activities to build stakeholder relationships and the QCAA brand.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Content writing

Stakeholder engagement

Collaboration

Professionalism

Job description

Queensland Curriculum & Assessment Authority – Brisbane QLD

The Communications Unit partners with business units across the organisation. It informs, engages and advises Queensland school communities — principals, teachers, students and families — about the work of the QCAA and its resources to support teaching, learning and assessment from kindergarten to Year 12. The Senior Communications Officer is integral to a small multi-disciplinary team that develops and delivers communication and engagement activities that support impactful projects.

What you will do

In the Senior Communications Officer role, you will:

• Develop, implement and evaluate creative communication and engagement plans that are delivered on time and budget.
• Write high-level, accurate and engaging content for e-newsletters, websites, fact sheets, social media, presentations, advertisements, briefing notes and other publications.
• Liaise with photographers, videographers and graphic designers to develop engaging, accurate and accessible multimedia content/publications.
• Contribute to statewide marker recruitment campaigns and a student awards
• Maintain productive relationships with the QCAA's senior management and external stakeholders.
• Foster innovation in communication and marketing activities to build stakeholder relationships and the QCAA brand.

Reporting relationships

This role reports to the Manager, Communications Unit. No roles report directly to this role.

What we are looking for

The QCAA is committed to selecting the person best suited to the role and to furthering equity and diversity. We strongly encourage applications from all gender groups, Aboriginal people, Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and people with all abilities.

The ideal candidate for this role:

• Recognises and articulates how their work contributes to the organisation's vision and outcomes (leads strategically)
• Shares and seeks creative ideas, feedback and data to inform the delivery of services (stimulates ideas and innovation)
• Collaborates successfully with people from a range of backgrounds, experiences and expertise (builds enduring relationships)
• Contributes to a positive and results-driven culture (drives accountability and outcomes)
• Proactively seeks professional learning opportunities that support upskilling and benefit the wider organisation (pursues continuous growth)
• Demonstrates high standards of professionalism and integrity in working with colleagues to deliver agreed outcomes (fosters health and inclusive workplaces)