Teach For Australia would like to acknowledge the many Traditional Custodians of the lands throughout Australia. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging, for they hold the memories, the traditions, the culture and hopes of Australia's first peoples.
Teach For Australia's vision is an Australia where education gives every child greater choice for their future. The mission is to grow a community of leaders committed to equity for children and young people, by recruiting and developing exceptional people to teach and lead across Australian schools.
Teach For Australia provides:
Opportunity to work with an engaged community of educators - working to close the education gap
Flexible work practices, hybrid working arrangements with the option to work from home regularly
Allowance and time off work for professional development
Additional day off for your birthday
13% superannuation
Please note: This is a 6 month fixed-term role with potential to extend to 12 months. This role has flexibility to be remote, candidates from all states and territories in Australia can apply.
Job Description
About Teach For Australia
Our vision is an Australia where education gives every child greater choice for their future. The mission is to grow a community of leaders committed to equity for children and young people, by recruiting and developing exceptional people to teach and lead across Australian schools.
About the Position
The Media and External Affairs manager takes on senior managerial responsibilities for delivery of impactful, high-quality representation of Teach for Australia to external stakeholders and media audiences. This includes management of the media functions for TFA, including identifying media opportunities and handling media issues, and providing strategic advice and assistance that grows the media capability and capacity of the organisation.
This role is also responsible for representing TFA to external stakeholders within the Government Relations and External Affairs remit, and providing strategic external engagement advice and assistance to functions across TFA.
This role leads the media strategy, and management of relationship/coordination of work with the Media Advisor within the Marketing Team; alignment to strategy and activity with the Government Relations and Media function; and coordination and leadership.
Qualifications and Experience
Essential
Media engagement and issues management – Demonstrated experience building strong media relationships, managing reactive and crisis media, and supporting senior leaders as effective spokespeople.
External affairs and organisational influence – Experience delivering external engagement, public affairs and high-profile events that support government relations and advocacy outcomes
Desirable
Experience working in or with education or not-for-profit sectors.
Skills, Attributes and Knowledge
Reputation and risk management – Proven capability to identify and manage reputational and brand risks, providing sound judgement and advice in high-stakes or sensitive contexts.
Strategic media leadership – Ability to design and deliver an integrated media strategy aligned to organisational, policy and government relations priorities.
Primary Accountabilities - Media
Develop and implement TFA media strategies
Lead media engagement
Support and grow media capability and capacity across TFA functions
Coordinate relationships with Marketing & Recruitment teams
Primary Accountabilities - External Affairs
Developing, delivering and supporting best-practice, effective External Engagement strategy and procedures that serve TFA’s needs and interests
Coordinate with and support Government Relations workstream
Identify, mitigate and manage Reputation/Brand risks
Identify and deliver external engagement opportunities
For further details about the role please find the Job Description here.
