Jobs at UNSW

Position Summary

The Media Relations Student Assistant role has a strong focus on media engagement and liaison, with a primary responsibility of fielding requests from journalists through the UNSW Media Inbox in a timely and efficient manner.

This role will:

• Provide administrative support, including managing the media inbox, responding to and triaging phone and email enquiries, assisting with coordinating media interview and on-campus filming requests, and assisting in tracking media coverage and enquiries and updating relevant channels.
• Produce articles for the UNSW Newsroom.
• Work with the Communications Officers within the Corporate Communications team and provide ad hoc assistance to the External Communications Manager when required.
• Cooperate with all health and safety policies and procedures of the university and take all reasonable care to ensure that your actions or omissions do not impact on the health and safety of yourself or others.

A person engaged is generally expected to have the following skills and experience:

• A UNSW Sydney student in at least their second year of study, preferably in journalism, communications, or a media–related degree.
• Broad knowledge and understanding of UNSW Sydney including academic and corporate functions of the University.
• Good written and verbal communication skills and the ability to liaise with a range of internal and external stakeholders.

Pre-Employment Checks

Aligned with UNSW’s focus on cultivating a workplace defined by safety, ethical conduct, and strong integrity preferred candidates will be required to participate in a combination of pre-employment checks relevant to the role they have applied for.  

These pre-employment checks may include a combination of some of the following checks:

• National and International Criminal history checks 
• Entitlement to work and ID checks 
• Working With Children checks  
• Completion of a Gender-Based Violence Prevention Declaration  
• Verification of relevant qualifications 
• Verification of relevant professional membership  
• Employment history and reference checks 
• Financial responsibility assessments or checks
• Medical assessments or checks 

Compliance with the necessary combination of these checks is a condition of employment at UNSW.

Applications will be reviewed as the come in. For any queries related to the role, please contact Ashleigh Steele at ashleigh.steele@unsw.edu.au