Strategic Communications Specialist

About the role

Slater and Gordon, a leading personal injury and class actions firm, is looking for a Strategic Communications Specialist to join its Corporate Affairs team in Melbourne. Reporting to the Head of Strategic Communications & Campaigns, the role translates the firm's strategy and priorities into clear narrative, messaging and content, and leads communications and engagement for the firm's transformation and change program.

Key responsibilities

• Contribute executive narrative, speaking notes and key messages for major moments such as the monthly all-staff town hall.
• Work across the organisation with senior leaders, the Internal Communications Manager, Change Leads, program teams and business stakeholders.
• Contribute to external campaigns, advocacy and thought leadership as required.
• Turn complex or sensitive information into practical messages, tools and content.
• Use audience insight, feedback and engagement data to improve communications.
• Explore how AI-enabled tools can support more effective and efficient content development.

Required profile

• Tertiary qualification in Communications or a related discipline.
• Five to seven years' experience delivering internal, strategic or change communications in a complex, change-heavy environment.
• Experience developing executive communications, speaking notes, key messages or presentations.
• Experience supporting transformation, system implementation or process redesign programs, ideally in a regulated, professional services or legal environment.
• Experience measuring communication and engagement effectiveness.

Required skills

• Working knowledge of content and design tools such as Canva, Adobe Express, Miro, Articulate, SharePoint, Teams or Viva.
• Excellent writing and communication skills, able to work with senior leaders.
• Ability to build trust across a complex organisation and manage confidential or reputationally significant matters with sound judgement.

What we offer

• Genuine hybrid working and flexibility.
• Structured learning and professional development.
• Recognition of high performance with clear progression pathways.
• Paid shutdown leave, 26 weeks of paid parental leave, additional long service leave and wellbeing initiatives.

Applications are made through the Slater and Gordon careers site; the firm prefers to speak with candidates personally and does not accept applications from recruitment agencies.