Talent Attraction: Content, Branding & Communications Contractor

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Company Description Work with Us. Change the World. At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations. There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world. We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us. Job Description The Opportunity This is a newly created 12-month fixed-term contract sitting within AECOM's ANZ Clients & Marketing function, working in close partnership with Talent Acquisition, People & Culture, and our Communications and Creative teams. This is a hands-on delivery role. You won't be writing strategy decks, you'll be producing content, building campaigns, and getting employer brand work out the door. You'll work within our existing brand, communications and content frameworks, learning how we operate so you can move fast without creating rework for the teams around you. The goal is someone who is enabled and self-sufficient, not someone who generates briefs for others to execute. What You'll Own Own the strategy and hands-on delivery of employer brand content, recruitment marketing campaigns, and candidate communications. Develop and execute recruitment marketing campaigns across LinkedIn, our careers site, paid social, and emerging channels. You'll take these from brief through to copy, creative direction, scheduling, and performance reporting. Write and produce candidate-facing content including role advertising copy, employee stories, video scripts, event collateral, and careers site pages. You'll film and capture content yourself. Build a reusable content library from the stories we already have: new leaders, promotions, relocations, secondments, career pathways, and project wins. Turn these into assets that work across channels and outlast individual campaigns. Build and maintain a content calendar for always-on employer brand activity, not just reactive bursts tied to open requisitions. Partner with Talent Acquisition leads to diagnose hard-to-fill roles and build targeted attraction strategies by discipline, geography, or candidate persona. Shape and protect the employer brand — consistent narrative, tone of voice, and visual identity across every candidate touchpoint. This needs to align with our broader corporate brand while being distinct enough to cut through in a competitive talent market. Own our Glassdoor presence: build the response program, close the loop on reviews, and lift sentiment on the channels candidates check before they ever apply. Support EVP refresh work and give our Stretch RAP commitments the market-facing content they deserve. Manage candidate communications templates and touchpoints across the recruitment lifecycle — confirmation emails, rejection comms, offer letters — so the candidate experience is consistent. Advise hiring managers and senior leaders on how to show up credibly on LinkedIn and at industry events as part of a broader talent attraction effort, working with our Communications team to ensure alignment with our wider LinkedIn and executive visibility strategy. Monitor competitor employer branding and talent market trends to keep our EVP sharp and channel mix current. Collaborate closely with internal communications and marketing teams to connect employer brand activity with broader corporate campaigns and sector narratives. Much of what these teams produce can be leveraged for talent attraction — your job is to spot those opportunities and act on them, not duplicate the effort. WHY THIS ROLE IS DIFFERENT You won't be refreshing a template or ticking a compliance box. You'll build a content library, a reputation program and an EVP refresh that keeps working long after your contract ends with the runway, budget and senior air cover to actually do it properly. Qualifications What You'll Bring Proven experience in employer branding, talent marketing, content or corporate communications, agency or in-house, we care about the work not the letterhead. A storyteller's instinct: you can spot a good internal story and turn it into content people actually stop and read. Confident across channels, LinkedIn, Glassdoor, campaign content, thought leadership and comfortable working with data to prove what's working. Experience in (or genuine curiosity about) engineering, infrastructure, construction or a similarly technical, project-based industry. Ready to Build Something That Outlasts a Campaign? If you read the five workstreams above and thought "yes I know exactly how I'd do that," we want to hear from you. Send us your CV, a portfolio or a few examples of brand/content work you're proud of, and a short note on what you'd tackle first. Additional Information At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment. AECOM acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which we, our clients and our communities live and work around Australia. We pay our respects to their cultures and to their Elders — past, present, and emerging. We are committed to connecting to Country in our work through meaningful engagement with First Nations peoples and businesses. Find out more about our Australian Reconciliation Action Plan here: https://aecom.com/au/our-vision-for-reconciliation/. About AECOM AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM. Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed. You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients. AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too. Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.