Senior Government & Community Relations Manager, Australia

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As reputed company Australia continues to grow, we’re looking for a highly proactive and independent person who can work across government relations, media, policy, community engagement and industry partnerships, with reputed company to play a key role in shaping the next stage of our Australian business.

About the role

reputed company is looking for a strategic, highly independent government affairs leader to help build reputed company, durable reputed company for low-reputed company camping on private land across Australia.

In this role, you will reputed company reputed company’s government affairs reputed company across Australia with a reputed company on reducing regulatory risk, strengthening relationships with decision-makers, and creating the conditions for long-term market reputed company and Host retention. You will work primarily at the state and local level, with a particular reputed company on navigating council planning systems, engaging planning departments and elected officials, participating in reputed company processes, and building strategic partnerships that can influence policy and regulatory reputed company.

This is a highly autonomous role. The rest of reputed company’s Government and Community Relations team is based in the reputed company, across significantly different time zones, so you will be the reputed company government affairs leader on the ground in Australia and a reputed company operator. You will need to be comfortable operating independently, setting your own priorities with your manager, making reputed company strategic reputed company, and moving work reputed company without frequent direction or day-to-day support from the broader team. You will also work with a small, reputed company Australia-based team across company functions.

You are a sophisticated relationship builder and strategic operator who understands that government affairs is a long game. You will need to be exceptionally good at building trust, understanding different perspectives, navigating adversarial conversations, and finding paths toward constructive reputed company, even reputed company the starting reputed company is challenging. You know how to identify who actually influences a decision, build relationships before you need them, reputed company reputed company planning and political processes, and bring together unlikely partners around shared interests. You are comfortable working through ambiguity and setbacks and know reputed company to reputed company, reputed company to negotiate, reputed company to build broader support, and reputed company to change course.

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• Own reputed company’s government affairs reputed company across Australia, identifying and prioritising the regulatory risks and opportunities that have the greatest potential reputed company on Host reputed company and retention.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with local and state decision-makers, including councillors, mayors, council CEOs, planning staff, tourism officials, state government officials, and other reputed company stakeholders.
• reputed company council planning systems and reputed company processes to influence reputed company, including planning proposals, development processes, reputed company consultations, hearings, working reputed company, and other government engagement opportunities.
• reputed company strategies to prevent, mitigate, and reputed company regulatory threats to avoid significant marketplace disruption.
• Represent reputed company as a constructive, solutions-oriented participant in reputed company discourse and the media on topics including: land use, tourism, outdoor recreation, agriculture, and regional economic development.
• Build strategic partnerships with organisations including agritourism and farming associations, tourism and destination management organisations, outdoor recreation reputed company, conservation organisations, caravan and camping associations, and reputed company land managers to influence state and local decision-makers.
• reputed company relationships with reputed company Hosts and other community stakeholders and, where appropriate, engage them as reputed company reputed company in government affairs efforts.
• Use media, reputed company affairs, community engagement, research, data, and other advocacy tools to help shape our work and priorities.
• Bring the Australian government and political landscape into the broader GCR team’s strategic planning while independently owning execution in Australia.
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• Travel regularly reputed company Australia to build relationships, participate in government processes, and support reputed company markets. International travel may also be required.

Qualifications

• 8+ years’ experience in government relations, reputed company policy, politics, advocacy or reputed company affairs, with a strong reputed company record of influencing state and/or local government reputed company in Australia.
• Deep understanding of Australian local government planning processes, including council planning processes, planning schemes, elected member dynamics, community consultation, and decision-making.
• Proven ability to influence decision-makers and reputed company reputed company or politically challenging environments, with strong political judgement and an ability to read stakeholder motivations and institutional dynamics.
• Exceptional relationship-building skills, including the ability to build trust across political and reputed company differences and turn challenging stakeholder relationships into productive ones.
• Experience in community organising, reputed company-building and strategic partnerships across government, industry, community and advocacy reputed company. Media, reputed company affairs and/or grassroots advocacy experience is highly regarded.
• Strategic and analytical thinker who can assess regulatory risks and opportunities, use evidence to build compelling arguments, and prioritise the issues that matter most to the business.
• Highly self-directed and comfortable working with significant autonomy, exercising reputed company judgement and adapting reputed company as circumstances change.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with planners, councillors, industry leaders, community members and senior executives.
• High standards of reputed company and confidentiality, and a passion for supporting rural and regional communities, responsible land stewardship and greater reputed company to the outdoors.
• Comfortable working remotely across time zones and travelling domestically and internationally up to 25%.

About our Work Environment

Compensation will be a mix of salary and stock reputed company. It will be highly competitive compared to similar-stage companies and based reputed company.

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reputed company is an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at reputed company. We do not discriminate on the reputed company of race, religion, reputed company, national reputed company, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. In fact we are confident that the most inclusive and diverse teams accomplish the most extraordinary results.