Senior Communications Practice Lead - 12-Month Contract

Charterhouse; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 96,000 - 128,000; Part time

Job summary

Dairy Australia is seeking a Communications Practice Lead for a 12-month fixed-term, 0.8 FTE. You will shape communications planning, governance, and capability across the organisation, coordinating demand and resources while embedding practical operating models and standards.

You will drive alignment with business units, foster collaboration, and lead the Community of Practice to uplift communications capability. Hybrid work across Melbourne and regions is available.

Qualifications

• Relevant tertiary qualification or equivalent experience in communications, marketing or business.
• Experience leading integrated communications planning, governance, workflow or operations.
• Strong capability in demand management, prioritisation and coordination across multiple teams.
• Experience developing practical frameworks, standards, briefing tools and governance processes.
• Analytical capability, including using performance, demand and capacity insights to guide recommendations.
• Strong facilitation, stakeholder-management and influencing skills that build alignment and shared ownership.

Responsibilities

• Lead integrated communications planning, prioritisation and the organisation-wide editorial calendar.
• Coordinate communications demand, workflow and resources across teams, channels and initiatives.
• Partner with business units to clarify objectives, audiences, outcomes and communications requirements early.
• Develop and embed practical operating models, frameworks, standards and tools that strengthen collaboration, quality and decision-making.
• Identify and embed AI-enabled tools and workflows that improve communications planning, content development, productivity, while supporting responsible use.
• Lead the Marketing & Communications Community of Practice and build communications capability across Dairy Australia.
• Establish communications effectiveness standards and measurement frameworks, using audience, channel, demand and capacity insights to improve prioritisation and continuous improvement.

Skills

Integrated planning

Governance

Workflow

Operations

Demand management

Coordination

Analytics

Facilitation

Education

Relevant tertiary qualification or equivalent experience

Job description

Dairy Australia is seeking a Communications Practice Lead for a 12-month fixed-term, 0.8 FTE. You will shape communications planning, governance, and capability across the organisation, coordinating demand and resources while embedding practical operating models and standards.

You will drive alignment with business units, foster collaboration, and lead the Community of Practice to uplift communications capability. Hybrid work across Melbourne and regions is available.