Project Communications Manager - 12 Month Max Term Contract

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Seeking a Project Communications Manager for a 12-month max term contract in Melbourne's Southbank, you’ll join Crown Resorts’ Public Affairs team to deliver clear, timely messaging through transformation. Reporting to the GM Corporate Communications, you’ll partner with change managers and stakeholders to plan and deliver content across internal and external channels, support leadership briefings, manage governance updates, and monitor feedback to adjust plans while flagging media risks. What matters most is your ability to simplify complexity, write clearly, and collaborate across functions at pace. Requirements include a tertiary degree and proven internal communications and change experience. Please include PDF samples of CEO messages and a media release with your application.

Company Description

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Crown Resorts is a great place to visit and it’s an even better place to work, a place where you can play your part in creating joyful experiences for our guests and our people. We value passion, creativity, and an appetite for change – for the better. Here, you’ll be part of the team, empowered to explore more, experience more and supported by your leader to grow and develop.

About the Role

We’re currently looking for a Project Communications Manager to join our Public Affairs team in Melbourne on a 12‑month Max‑Term Contract. This role plays a key part in supporting major transformation and change programs across Crown, helping deliver clear, engaging and timely communication that supports our people through every stage of the journey.

Reporting to the General Manager, Corporate Communications, you’ll work closely with project leads, change managers and business stakeholders to plan, craft and deliver communication that lands well across a diverse audience base. From internal updates, executive briefings and project messaging, you’ll ensure information is consistent, accessible and aligned with our broader communications strategy.

This role is central to Crown’s commitment to becoming a really well‑run business, enhancing productivity, strengthening engagement and supporting our teams through meaningful, people‑centred communication.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver communication strategies aligned to project milestones
• Partner with change managers to support change‑related messaging and readiness updates
• Create clear, engaging content across multiple internal and external channels
• Manage communication channels to ensure accurate, timely and consistent messaging
• Support leadership briefings, Q&A sessions and communication‑related events
• Monitor feedback, track communication effectiveness and adjust plans as needed
• Identify communication risks and provide advice on mitigation strategies including media
• Prepare updates and reporting for governance forums

About You

• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to simplify complexity
• Proven experience in communications, internal communications or employee engagement
• Experience supporting business transformation or organisational change
• Confident working with multiple stakeholders and cross‑functional teams
• Able to work at pace, manage competing priorities and deliver high‑quality outputs
• Tertiary qualifications in Communications, Public Relations, Marketing, Journalism or similar

As part of your application, please provide relevant work samples that demonstrates your capability in Internal Communications (CEO message to team members, etc) and External Comms (media release, etc) in PDF format.

Additional Information

What you can expect from us

On top of exciting career possibilities, we offer better exposure to experiences and learning. To see our range of benefits and opportunities visit Crown Resorts Careers.

Our Crown Community celebrates uniqueness and embraces diversity. We welcome the creativity, insights and experiences from people of different race, age, religion, cultural background, gender, people with disability, people who identify as LGBTIQ+ and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander; people like you.