- Deliver engagement on Victoria’s largest energy infrastructure project.
- Drive coordination across stakeholder, industry, and reporting teams.
- Support executives with high-level project and admin assistance.
When you choose AusNet, you’ll join genuine people working together making Real. Progress
At AusNet, we’re the link between renewable energy sources and local communities, playing a key role in the clean energy transition and providing essential energy to every Victorian family.
Help us lead the way, while enriching your career with real people who encourage you to bring your best and make real impact – for your career, our communities, and Australia’s cleaner energy future.
Purposeful work with genuinely good people. That’s refreshing.
Become part of a critical team for The Western Renewables Link Project (WRL), the largest transmission build in over three decades and the critical infrastructure required to unlock the renewable energy potential of Victoria as the state transitions to cleaner, more sustainable energy.
In this role as the Engagement, Reporting and Coordination Specialist, you will be making a key contribution to engagement at a regional level, supporting both the Stakeholder Engagement and Industry Engagement teams and taking up lead coordination of reporting across the Communications and Stakeholder and Industry Engagement Directorate (CSI) on the Western Renewables Link (WRL) project.
This role will also see you focused on providing a diverse range of coordination, support and administrative assistance to the Director and to the Level 4 Managers and their respective teams working on the WRL project.
The role is based in Ballarat, and includes the coordination of the WRL Ballarat office to support office operations and the wider WRL teams based from Ballarat. Your contribution will help build on our positive team culture and contribute to maintaining a safe, supportive and effective workplace.
This role will deliver real outcomes, including but not limited to:
- Contribute of engagement and knowledge of local/regional advice and support engagement with key stakeholders during construction and early operations.
- Collaborate with delivery teams and contractors to plan and assess community engagement.
- Manage relationships with communities, businesses, suppliers, and local government (excluding hosting landholders).
- Overseeing the delivery of projects and partnerships between AusNet and key stakeholders/organisations in order to create place-based value along the WRL project footprint.
- Review and prepare confidential reports, correspondence and presentations using the suite of applications, ensuring high quality and consistent messaging and reporting.
- Coordination of monthly Directorate dashboard reports and project reports for internal and external project stakeholders.
- Preparing agendas and minutes for key internal project management meetings and periodic external stakeholder meetings as requested
- Diary and meeting management, email management, strategic support for the Director - Delivery and Operations, and where required for CSI Managers.
- Supporting the management of accounts authorization, processing purchase orders and invoicing, including liaison with the Commercial Manager
You don’t need to check every box; however, we are looking for a good combination of:
- Solid knowledge and demonstrated experience with stakeholder and community engagement in a local/regional and project setting
- Strong experience in supporting and co-ordinating functions for projects and project management teams
- Delivery of high quality reporting, documents, minutes and agendas
- Ability to effectively work independently, solve problems and demonstrate proactivity
- A high level of organisational skills and demonstrated effectively handling multiple tasks, setting priorities, managing timeframes and meeting deadlines under pressure
- Experience in coordinating meetings and preparing associated documentation and packs
- Experience working in an Assistant/Project Co-ordination role
- Excellent understanding of and expertise in standard office software such as Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
A real place to belong
We celebrate unique voices, refreshing perspectives and diversity in our team. Engage and connect through our social club, family day, wide range of events or by joining one of our Employee Network Groups.
We believe in more than just competitive pay. Here’s what sets us apart:
- Flexibility: whether this is hybrid work, flexible hours, or part time arrangements, we’ll work with you to help balance work and life.
- Leave: more than typical personal leave and a generous 14 weeks of paid parental leave, with no minimum service.
- Community giving: a paid day to volunteer with our social impact partner, Foodbank, or for a cause that matters to you.
- Perks: we offer all the other perks you’ve come to expect like purchased leave, income protection insurance, novated leasing, corporate discounts, private health cover discounts and more.
As an industry in transformation, we’re excited by the possibilities ahead.
So, if you’re passionate about our purpose and committed to making real progress, bring your energy and join AusNet. Together, we can shape a new way forward.
