Lead - Community

Community Lead

• Permanent Role
• Location Sydney, Melbourne, or Brisbane

About the role:

Contribute to Suncorp’s sponsorship and community investment strategy by administering Suncorp’s community investment fund, community partnerships, workplace giving and engagement activities.

More specifically, you will:

• Support the execution of Suncorp’s community investment strategy.
• Lead community partnerships with day-to-day management and planning and delivery of employee engagement activities.
• Actively support on community partnership negotiations and renewals through the contract, procurement, risk and legal process.
• Support annual business and budget planning cycles for community investment inputs.
• Establish and leverage mutually beneficial relationships with Suncorp’s community partners and other sponsorships. 
• Assist with program governance, including preparing business papers and presentations for committees and working groups, partnership WIPs, benefits tracking, budget management, and workplace giving guidelines.
• Actively support social impact measurement and community investment reporting across the portfolio.
• Adhere to the community budget (community investment fund and Collective Giving) and support with invoice processing and monthly cost centre forecasting.
• Adhere to and execute robust governance processes – legal, data, risk, procurement etc.
• Support across other areas of the sponsorship and community portfolio to deliver maximum impact for key stakeholders.
• Coordinate communications around various community investment activities and milestones.
• Develop leverage initiatives to amplify community partners where required.
• End-to-end delivery of Collective Giving – Suncorp’s approach to workplace giving. 
• Employee engagement: Collective Giving and key partnership activations.
• Manage community partnership requests, responses and on-going register.

About You:

• Relevant university degree.
• At least five years’ experience engaging with community organisations or community sponsorships, other strategic partnership and/or supplier agreements.
• Proven experience with stakeholder management/stakeholder engagement.
• Experience with negotiation and partnership management.
• Experience in managing multiple stakeholders across a wide variety of workstreams simultaneously.
• Experience dealing with senior executives and managing relationships.
• Budget management.

Key Capabilities:

• Exceptional ability to build strong relationships, align diverse stakeholders around common goals and successfully motivate people toward shared outcomes.
• Strategic and conceptual thinking skills.
• Exceptional communication skills – written and verbal
• Presentation skills
• Prioritisation skills
• Attention to detail
• Commercial acumen
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills
• Ability to manage a portfolio budget and monthly forecasting Commitment to ongoing personal and professional development.

What we can offer you:

• Discounts and offers on a range of insurance products
• A range of flexible working and leave options, including 20 weeks paid parental leave, 4 weeks secondary carer parental leave, and unlimited paid emergency response leave.
• Invest in your brighter future with ongoing study support and career development programs.
• Give back to our communities with payroll giving, donation matching and paid volunteer leave.
• Prioritise your work/life balance with our robust employee assistance program and dedicated employee council.

Employee benefits | Suncorp Group

At Suncorp we believe we are our best when our workforce is as diverse, talented and passionate as the communities in which we live and operate, and where our people feel included, valued and connected. We are passionate about inspiring our people by creating a diverse, accessible, and inclusive culture, offering flexible work, career development and internal mobility, and building connected relationships amongst our team members and with our customers.

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Advertised: 05 Aug 2025 AUS Eastern Standard Time
Applications close: 13 Aug 2025 AUS Eastern Standard Time