General Manager Marketing and Communications

General Manager Marketing and Communications

• Modern offices based in Eight Mile Plains
• 12 month paternity leave contract with hybrid working arrangements (looking to commence early April)
• Positive workplace culture

About Us

With over 200 locationsand 1500 staff AKG is one of Australias largest providers of employment training and health serviceshelping 50000 Australians annuallysecure jobs upskill and improve wellbeing. Part of the AKG Group our services support people across all demographics creating real world impact and empowering the lives of others.

The Opportunity

We are seeking an experienced General Manager Marketing and Communications to be a key member of our Leadership Team for a 12 month paternity contract. This role will play a key part in managing and implementing internal and external marketing and communications strategies for the organisation driving demand and enquiry across B2c B2B and B2G channels as well as day to day service delivery across multiple brands.

Reporting to the Managing Director this is a hands-on leadership role requiring you to bring your A game with stakeholder engagement and strategic influence with commitment to quality to add value to all AKG services and programs.

Would this describe you

• Lead and coach an experienced and stable team of Marketing and Communications professionals and Partnership Managers to support the business in key services and programs

• Develop strategic marketing plans and execute strategy across the business

• Highly organised with the ability to quickly execute the agreed strategy to ensure timely delivery of support materials and campaigns

• Strong capabilities in project management including the ability to plan and coordinate the development of products or projects to meet targets

• Well-developed interpersonal skills in consulting and advising a variety of stakeholders with a diplomatic and professional approach

• Advanced communication written and verbal presentations skills

• Provide high level strategic media and communications advice and briefings across the organisation including issues management

• Tertiary qualifications or higher in communications journalism PR marketing or equivalent

• Strong understanding of digital marketing principles; SEO SEM Lead Generation Social Media and CRM platforms

• Experience within our MarTech stack such as Wordpress Marketo BetterProposals Google My Business and Ad platforms Meta Business Templafy (would be beneficial)

• Hold or have the ability to obtain a current Police Clearance and Working with Children Check and MyID.

Next steps - APPLY NOW!

If you require an adjustment to the recruitment process for reasons of equal opportunity please call a member of our Recruitment Team on 0 or email recruitment @ before you submit your application.

We embrace Diversity and Inclusion

We are proud to hold the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Employer of Choice Citation and be a recognised Disability Confident Company.

We value diversity in the backgrounds ideas work styles and perspectives of our team. We strongly encourage people with disability Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people mature aged workers and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgroundsto apply.

We adhere to the National Principles for Child Safety and require all team members to be committed to child safety and well-being. Our induction and training will provide you with these principles including having an understanding of childrens developmental needs and culturally safe practices.