Talent Attraction Content, Branding & Communications Contractor

The Opportunity

This is a newly created 12-month fixed-term contract sitting within AECOMs ANZ Clients & Marketing function working in close partnership with Talent Acquisition People & Culture and our Communications and Creative teams.

This is a hands-on delivery role. You wont be writing strategy decks youll be producing content building campaigns and getting employer brand work out the door. Youll work within our existing brand communications and content frameworks learning how we operate so you can move fast without creating rework for the teams around you. The goal is someone who is enabled and self-sufficient not someone who generates briefs for others to execute.

What Youll Own

• Own the strategy and hands-on delivery of employer brand content recruitment marketing campaigns and candidate communications.
• Develop and execute recruitment marketing campaigns across LinkedIn our careers site paid social and emerging channels. Youll take these from brief through to copy creative direction scheduling and performance reporting.
• Write and produce candidate-facing content including role advertising copy employee stories video scripts event collateral and careers site pages. Youll film and capture content yourself.
• Build a reusable content library from the stories we already have: new leaders promotions relocations secondments career pathways and project wins. Turn these into assets that work across channels and outlast individual campaigns.
• Build and maintain a content calendar for always-on employer brand activity not just reactive bursts tied to open requisitions.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition leads to diagnose hard-to-fill roles and build targeted attraction strategies by discipline geography or candidate persona.
• Shape and protect the employer brand consistent narrative tone of voice and visual identity across every candidate touchpoint. This needs to align with our broader corporate brand while being distinct enough to cut through in a competitive talent market.
• Own our Glassdoor presence: build the response program close the loop on reviews and lift sentiment on the channels candidates check before they ever apply.
• Support EVP refresh work and give our Stretch RAP commitments the market-facing content they deserve.
• Manage candidate communications templates and touchpoints across the recruitment lifecycle confirmation emails rejection comms offer letters so the candidate experience is consistent.
• Advise hiring managers and senior leaders on how to show up credibly on LinkedIn and at industry events as part of a broader talent attraction effort working with our Communications team to ensure alignment with our wider LinkedIn and executive visibility strategy.
• Monitor competitor employer branding and talent market trends to keep our EVP sharp and channel mix current.
• Collaborate closely with internal communications and marketing teams to connect employer brand activity with broader corporate campaigns and sector narratives. Much of what these teams produce can be leveraged for talent attraction your job is to spot those opportunities and act on them not duplicate the effort.

WHY THIS ROLE IS DIFFERENT

You wont be refreshing a template or ticking a compliance box. Youll build a content library a reputation program and an EVP refresh that keeps working long after your contract ends with the runway budget and senior air cover to actually do it properly.

Qualifications :

What Youll Bring

• Proven experience in employer branding talent marketing content or corporate communications agency or in-house we care about the work not the letterhead.
• A storytellers instinct: you can spot a good internal story and turn it into content people actually stop and read.
• Confident across channels LinkedIn Glassdoor campaign content thought leadership and comfortable working with data to prove whats working.
• Experience in (or genuine curiosity about) engineering infrastructure construction or a similarly technical project-based industry.

Ready to Build Something That Outlasts a Campaign

If you read the five workstreams above and thought yes I know exactly how Id do that we want to hear from you. Send us your CV a portfolio or a few examples of brand/content work youre proud of and a short note on what youd tackle first.

Additional Information :

At AECOM we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

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AECOM is the worlds trusted infrastructure consulting firm delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle from advisory planning design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation buildings water new energy and the environment our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise a culture of equity diversity and inclusion and a commitment to environmental social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether youre working from an AECOM office remote location or at a client site you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity diversity and inclusion a safe and respectful workplace where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. Were the worlds trusted global infrastructure firm and were in this together your growth and success are ours too.

Join us and youll get all the benefits of being a part of a global publicly traded firm access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer we believe in each persons potential and well help you reach yours.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Contract