Internal vacancy only

Position title: Communications and Community Engagement Officer

Department/Team: Marketing, Communications and Engagement

Location: LUCAS

Employment Type: Ongoing

Time fraction: Part-time

Reporting to: Marketing, Communications and Community Engagement Manager

Under the direction of the Marketing, Communications and Community Engagement Manager, this position is responsible for developing, distributing, and maintaining print and electronic media to increase the visibility of community health in the region and supporting BCH community engagement activities identified, including the promotion, community and client communication and event administrative support. This position requires high attention to detail and consistently utilises systems such as Adobe & Microsoft applications.

Key responsibilities:

- Ensure BCH brand guidelines are implemented across all channels.
- Maintain the BCH social media channels and internal intranet news.
- Monitor email inboxes as assigned, responding to enquiries and disseminate or escalate matters as appropriate.
- Support the communications and marketing team in developing written copy for various mediums such as case studies, social media copy, marketing collateral and web/print.
- Support the team in designing and developing internal online resources as well as monitoring and triaging in the prioritising of incoming requests.
- Maintaining BCH document and digital templates to ensure a contemporary suite is available to all staff and programs and support understanding and awareness across BCH Diversity and Inclusion and Community Engagement principles and activities.
- Collection, collation, and analysis of statistics of social media channels.
- Assisting with the provision of communications support to teams across the organisation
- Assisting with the planning and support of organisational engagement events and campaigns.
- Supporting and liaising with external and internal event facilitators.
- Under the direction of the Marketing,



Communications and Community Engagement Manager, developing written copy for various mediums such as case studies, social media copy, marketing collateral and web/print in relation to Community Engagement activites assigned.
- Supporting the preparation of post event case studies and reports for different stakeholder audiences.

Other duties as required by the organisation and assigned by the Marketing, Communications and Community Engagement Manager.

What you will bring to the team:

- Robust written communication and report writing skills along with proficient knowledge and experience in Adobe applications (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator).
- Digital design skills are highly desirable.
- Understand the consumer voice and be able to tailor communications to various mediums.
- Demonstrated experience in a similar Communications, Journalism, Community Engagement or Marketing role is highly desirable

Secondment opportunity:

A secondment is a temporary transfer to another role, usually for a fixed period, after which the employee will return to their original position unless otherwise agreed.

If seeking to apply for this role as a secondment, prior to submitting an application, applicants must obtain approval from their line manager to ensure that a secondment will be supported.

If the secondment is not supported, applicants may still choose to apply on their own accord; however, it will be treated as a standard application.

Further information:

To obtain a copy of the position description, please

click here.

For further enquiries about this role please contact Mark Simmonds, Manager Marketing, Communications & Community Engagement on 5338 0595.

If we can assist you with any reasonable adjustments in order to submit your application for this role, or you need a copy of this advertisement in an accessible format, please contact the People and Culture team.

Application deadline:

Applications must be submitted by 11:59pm on 18th November 2026

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