Transformation Portfolio Communications Lead

This is offered as a 12-month maximum term contract opportunity.

As a Transformation Portfolio Communications Lead at PwC Australia, you'll play a vital role in developing and delivering the enterprise communications strategy that builds awareness, alignment, and momentum across PwC Australia's transformation portfolio. You'll be working with senior leaders and stakeholders across all areas of the firm, supporting the delivery of PwC's AI ambition through strategic storytelling and integrated communications.

Why PwC?

At PwC Australia, your skills meet purpose. We tackle big challenges across industries like finance, technology, energy, and health, giving you the chance to make a real impact. Here, your growth is our priority. You’ll work with leading teams, explore new technologies, and unlock your full potential.

Join a global community of more than 370,000 people who value bold ideas, collaboration, and lasting change. Together, we’re building trust and shaping the future.

What you’ll do

• Develop and deliver enterprise Transformation Portfolio communications strategy aligned to Portfolio charter and KPIs.

• Map and segment portfolio stakeholders to tailor communications by audience.

• Produce portfolio level leader communications to build awareness, visibility and understanding of how the portfolio is delivering PwC’s AI ambition.

• Own the portfolio narrative and messaging hierarchy and maintain a single source of truth.

• Build and run the portfolio communications plan, including forward calendar, key moments, and sequencing.

• Work in close collaboration with the Corporate Affairs team to lead the strategic development and implementation of relevant internal and external communications and engagement activity, ensuring content is targeting the right audiences, through the right channels at the right time.

• Set communications standards covering tone, templates, channels, and minimum requirements.

• Coordinate large audience, high impact communications across initiatives to prevent duplication, conflicting messages, and saturation.

• Manage dependencies between program communications and enterprise-wide messaging.

• Enable program change managers by providing messaging, templates, coaching, and alignment support.

• intake (what’s coming up)

• message alignment check (portfolio story / Responsible AI)

• channel + timing check (de-conflict)

• Assurance of message accuracy, consistency and tone for high-impact and high-priority communications

• Lead the development and implementation of measures that assess the impact of communications output and gather feedback for future improvement.

• Provide lightweight reporting on communications delivered, what is coming up, key risks/sensitivities, and feedback themes, and use insights to refine future communications.

• Use your excellent communication and stakeholder skills and experience influencing senior leaders to drive alignment across diverse teams and act as a trusted advisor on issues to internal stakeholders.

What we’re looking for

• An experienced operator with proven experience in a dynamic and high-profile organisation.

• Comfortable working both independently and collaboratively in a dynamic and multidisciplinary team.

• A strategic thinker, with the ability to lead work and deliver quality outcomes in line with role expectations.

• An excellent writer, comfortable creating and editing content for various audiences and channels.

• Agile and willing to lean into new challenges.

• Results oriented with strong project management skills, able to lead and deliver campaigns end to end.

• Able to develop relationships quickly, influence and partner effectively with key senior stakeholders.

• Adaptable and keen to support your colleagues, willing to ‘jump in’ where needed and share knowledge, ability to coach junior team members effectively.

• A professional who loves collaboration, appreciates constructive challenge and approaches work with curiosity.

What you’ll gain

• The opportunity to work with leading organisations and cutting-edge technology that challenge and expand your expertise.

• Flexibility means trusting you to choose when, where, and how you work—balancing what’s best for you, your team, and your clients to grow and thrive together.

• Clear paths for career progression supported by continuous learning and leadership development.

• Generous leave entitlements to support your work-life balance - including floating public holidays, birthday leave and ability to purchase additional leave on top of your four weeks.

• A world-class parental leave policy offering up to 26 weeks of leave for caregivers, supporting your family and personal life.

We know that perks are as important as your financial rewards. Explore all the benefits that PwC has to offer here.

Ready to grow here and go further? Join PwC Australia as a Transformation Portfolio Communications Lead and make an impact that goes beyond the expected. Apply now and take your next step with a team shaping the future.

We’re committed to treating all our job applicants fairly and with respect, irrespective of their actual or assumed background, disability, neurodivergence, or any other protected characteristic. We want you to have every opportunity to thrive in our selection process. In the application form, you can let us know what adjustments you require during our recruitment process and/or any workplace accommodations you anticipate needing to help you perform your role.

No agencies please: We kindly request that recruitment agencies do not submit CVs in response to this advertisement. We are only accepting applications direct from individuals.