Randstad has partnered with a prominent government body to recruit a strategic and highly collaborative Stakeholder Engagement Lead.
- Daily Rate: $900 - $950 per day + super
- Location: Footscray
- Contract Length: 4 months, hybrid
Role Purpose & Responsibilities
Reporting to the Manager Engagement, you will be responsible for leading the stakeholder engagement practice across various key projects. You will act as a lead-level advisor, translating highly complex technical work into clear, accessible, and high-impact key messaging.
You will support a designated number of identified managers whose primary skillsets are technically focused, rather than rooted in traditional engagement. You will act as a mentor and relationship manager, equipping them with the tools and capability to manage high-level external relations effectively.
Key Responsibilities:
- Strategy & Planning: Develop and execute comprehensive stakeholder engagement plans and strategies across a diverse range of projects.
- Capacity Building & Support: Uplift internal capability by acting as a relationship manager for other roles, providing specialized advice and tactical support to identified managers handling high-level relations.
- Complex Communications: Review complex project frameworks to extract, synthesize, and deliver clear, targeted key messaging for diverse external audiences.
- Relationship Management: Drive open, transparent, and trusted information exchanges between the organisation, ELT/SLT, regulators, peer authorities, and government departments.
- Risk Mitigation & Systems: Embed robust systems, tracking mechanisms, and feedback loops to proactively map stakeholders, monitor sentiment, and mitigate reputational risks.
Key Selection Criteria
To succeed in this role, you will bring a supportive and relational personality paired with a sophisticated understanding of government relations.
- Government & Complex Relations: Demonstrated background working within government relations or a complex, highly regulated stakeholder environment (e.g., utilities, infrastructure, or public sector).
- Strategic Capability & Complex Messaging: Proven ability to navigate complex streams of work, identify critical risks, and distill technical jargon into meaningful key messages.
- Influence & Coaching Personality: Advanced interpersonal skills to naturally support, mentor, and gently guide managers with different technical skillsets.
- Stakeholder Framework Execution: Extensive experience in stakeholder mapping, sentiment tracking, and executing engagement plans across multiple simultaneous projects.
- Qualifications: A tertiary qualification in communications, public relations, journalism, or a related discipline, alongside substantial experience in a senior strategic engagement role.
How to Apply
If you are a consultative engagement professional who thrives on transforming complexity into clarity and enjoys supporting others to succeed, we want to hear from you.
At Randstad, we are passionate about providing equal employment opportunities and embracing diversity to the benefit of all. We actively encourage applications from any background.
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