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Communications Advisor (6-Month Contract)

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Our Purpose

At Xero, we’re here to help you supercharge your business. We do this by automating routine tasks, surfacing actionable insights and connecting businesses with the right data, advisors and apps. When that happens, we’re not only making life better for small business, we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.

How you'll make an impact:

Our Global Communications team is a high-energy team with a passion for people, culture and great storytelling. A large focus of this role will be working closely with senior team members to support key and vital projects and initiatives.

We’re looking for a great Communications Advisor to join our Global Business Communications team on a 6-month basis. Reporting to the Director of Customer and Partner Communications, you’ll play a vital role in helping us achieve our communications objectives and support a wide variety of external and internal communication strategies and campaigns.

What you'll do

  • Develop high quality communication materials including drafting key assets like media releases, messaging, Q&A documents, interview briefing documents, media lists, customer blogs, internal communications and social media posts.
  • Help to review media releases in a timely manner, contribute ideas for story pitching, media events and other engagements
  • Ensure that messaging across team assets and documents is consistent, aligned across the business, and presented in a clear manner
  • Undertake targeted research to provide insights that will shape delivery of our customer and external communication activities
  • Support the team by coordinating the Asana project board to manage projects and timings
  • Provide project management support to facilitate specific projects as required by senior members
  • Contribute to and capturing new ideas, measurement and reporting, messaging and proactively managing stakeholders to input and sign-off materials.
  • What you’ll bring with you

  • Degree in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations or Marketing, with at least 4 years of industry experience
  • Experience writing for different audiences across different channels
  • You're a team player
  • You thrive in a dynamic environment and have a 'get stuff done' attitude
  • Ability to think both practically and creatively
  • Excellent written skills and eye for detail
  • Strong planning and project management skills and ability to work at pace on a range of projects
  • Excellent stakeholder management and interpersonal skills.
  • Additional Information

    Why Xero?

    Offering very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!), dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family, free medical insurance, wellbeing and sports programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.

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