We’ve made it our business to understand how people want to work today, tomorrow and beyond and as you’d expect, we practise what we preach in our own workplace as well.
For more than two decades, Investa has led the way in making positive change in Australia’s workplaces.
As a real estate investment manager, developer and industry innovator, Investa acquires, develops and manages real estate assets on behalf of our partners. We harness the full potential of our expertise and agility to create exceptional experiences across varied asset classes.
Investa designs buildings and communities for the way people work and live today – and the way we want to work and live in the future.
We currently have a opportunity for a Communications Manager to join a motivated and high achieving Marketing Team. This newly developed role will see you draft materials to support business unit strategic objectives and form relationships across the business and with key external partners, including media to find opportunities to tell Investa’s stories and news. As our Communications Manager you’ll partner with People & Culture to support the work and team as a leading employment brand and support the wider business.
Key Responsibilities:
- Responsible for creating and distributing internal and external content, supporting business unit strategic objectives, and forming relationships with key internal and external audiences including the media.
- Curating media stories, drafting and distributing media materials, maintaining media relationships, and assisting with internal communications such as CEO updates and internal announcements.
- Support external reporting including producing content for annual and quarterly reports.
- Managing social media content - use social media to tell our story in creative and inspiring ways that resonate with various audiences.
- Supporting the digital team with branded material, and reporting on digital KPIs.
- Upskill in digital creative content creation and work closely with our Digital Marketing Manager.
- Ad-hoc communication requests, speech writing, awards submissions.
Qualifications:
- Tertiary qualifications in Communications or related discipline.
Experience:
- 2-3 years in a communications role.
- Internal and external communications experience.
- Keen to hear from candidates with commercial agency PR experience.
Skills:
- Media management – experience preparing media materials, engaging media in story opportunities, facilitating media enquiries, and reporting media results.
- Stakeholder management – work effectively with all members of the team and others across the business, as well as our suppliers.
- Communications – excellent written and verbal communication skills and confidence with different forms of writing.
- Results driven – a self-starter who is passionate about outperforming goals and inspires those around them to strive for success.
- Time management – deadline orientated, using time effectively and capable of juggling multiple priorities at once.
- Customer focus – dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of Investa’s internal and external stakeholders, establishing and maintaining effective relationships.
- Teamwork – a team player, dedicated to creating a culture of success within the team and hitting our collective goals.
Knowledge:
- Media and communications landscape.
- Marketing collateral creation.
- Communications strategy.
- Knowledge of the property industry desirable but not essential.
Why join Investa?
We’re an organisation known for its culture – it’s unique, friendly and transparent. We work hard to maintain our culture and have received some pretty cool accolades along the way:
- Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Employer of Choice for Gender Equality (EOCGE) for 2023-25
- Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) LGBTQ Inclusion 2024 Silver (Small Employer)
- Certified Family Friendly Workplace since 2020
- AFR Boss Best Places to Work (Property, Construction, Transport sector) – First Place (2021)
- Australian HR Awards – Excellence Award: Best Workplace Flexibility Program
It’s not all about the awards though! We offer our people opportunity to grow and shape their career, with support including Leadership programs, education assistance, study assistance, professional membership fee support and generous parental leave and return to work benefits.
We know that the lines between work and home life have blurred over the past few years and we do our best to support our people with having the flexibility they need to be able to do the things that are important to them. Whether it’s a morning surf before work, leaving a little earlier to take the kids to sport our flexible working policy provides over 21 different formal flexible working options. The truth is though that the options are unlimited – talk to us about what works for you, and we’ll do our best to make it work for us too.
Back to the environment we create though, we are so proud that Investa is a safe, diverse and inclusive workplace where you can truly be yourself. We particularly welcome applications from individuals in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, as well as those identifying as LGBTQ or neurodivergent. Even if you don't meet all criteria, we encourage you to apply and let us know more about you – if this isn’t the right opportunity for you, there may be another opportunity coming up.
We understand that traditional hiring processes can come with challenges for some people. If you have a disability, identify as gender diverse or are neurodivergent, please reach out to our Talent Acquisition Manager, Ella Mannix at emannix@investa.com.au and Ella will tailor our processes to accommodate your specific needs. If you require no additional assistance to accommodate your requirements and wish to be considered for this position, kindly submit your application online.
We are inundated with a high volume of application responses, therefore, we request that applications not be submitted directly to an email address.