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Senior Stakeholder Specialist
full-time•New South Wales
About this role
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Join an organisation that values your voice, empowers your autonomy, recognises the strength in diversity, and prioritises your well-being while offering attractive remuneration and benefits. Take pride in having a meaningful impact on regional, rural and remote communities while being a pivotal player in the energy industry's future.
About the role
We are currently recruiting a Senior Stakeholder Specialist to join the Stakeholder Relations team.
This role can be based anywhere within Essential Energy’s operational footprint.
The Senior Stakeholder Specialist strengthens Essential Energy’s reputation by identifying opportunities to engage with key stakeholders, managing external relationships, and preparing high‑quality materials that support effective engagement. They respond to stakeholder enquiries, deliver on agreed engagement priorities, and provide strategic advice on engagement approaches, content, and delivery. Through all aspects of their work, they ensure that Essential Energy’s external engagement is purposeful, targeted, and aligned with the organisation’s corporate priorities.
Key responsibilities:
- Identify and deliver on opportunities to support Essential Energy’s proactive engagement with key strategic stakeholders spanning local matters, industry-specific issues, and strategic, organisation-wide priorities
- Arrange meetings and prepare materials to support external engagement by Essential Energy Executives as well as Essential Energy’s multiple stakeholder and customer forums
- Prepare responses to ad-hoc inquiries from government, consumer, community and industry stakeholders
- Provide specialist advice across the business on external engagement approach, content and delivery including during the development of regulatory proposals
- Support preparation of monthly reporting requirements for the board and executive
About You
In order to be successful as Senior Stakeholder Specialist, you will possess:
- Professional experience in roles focusing on stakeholder engagement, public affairs or communications
- Experience working in a corporate business operations environment underpinned by business goals, strategy and industry regulations that are required to meet the ongoing operational needs of the business
- Professional interpersonal and written communications skills with ability to work in a collaborative manner with all business units, stakeholders and customer representatives
- Ability to understand technical concepts and translate them into accessible, stakeholder‑friendly language and deliver on firm deadlines with excellent attention to detail
- Knowledge of issues facing the energy industry, customers and regional NSW communities. Previous experience with policy and regulatory issues will be highly regarded.
- Professional computer operational knowledge to develop high level documents and communicate with business units, stakeholders and sponsors
Required Qualifications
- Degree in Communications or Public Affairs, similar level qualification relevant to the position or demonstrated capability through past employment experience and/or relevant qualifications.
Why Essential Energy
We offer competitive remuneration, starting from $139,192 per annum plus 16.% super commensurate on a 9 day fortnight, salary will be commensurate with skills and experience.
Essential Energy provides employees with a broad range of employee benefits through our corporate partnerships with organisations such as Qantas, Optus, nib and Mildura Health Fund. You will also gain access to our Health and Wellbeing programs including fitness passport. Visit our employee benefits page for more information.
We are proud to be recognised as a WORK180 Endorsed Employer for All Women.
An energy network doesn’t just keep the lights on… it’s a living network that needs to adapt to new and emerging energy generation technologies while still meeting the energy needs of customers.
It requires innovation, commitment, and collaboration to bring people together to solve the energy delivery challenges of the modern world.
Your potential will be realised, and you’ll feel a real sense of purpose and satisfaction knowing you have a pivot role to play in delivering the energy of the future to the people who need it today.
For further information please contact Larissa Cassidy Government & Stakeholder Engagement Manager on 0402 901 808.
Applications close on 11:55pm AEST 11 February 2026.
Passionate people. Global thinking. Regional heart.
Building a better energy future.
Essential Energy is committed to building a culturally diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourages applicants to apply regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability.
As an organisation, our aim is to champion inclusivity in the workplace and celebrate the difference in all our employees.
At Essential Energy, we are committed to supporting adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, as well as during employment. We actively support and encourage people with disability to apply to Essential Energy (including alternate formats of application forms or alternate ways for accessibility). To discuss adjustment requirements, please contact careers@essentialenergy.com.au or call us on 1800 255 777.
What you'll do
- The Senior Stakeholder Specialist will engage with key stakeholders and manage external relationships to strengthen Essential Energy’s reputation. They will prepare high-quality materials for effective engagement and respond to stakeholder inquiries.
About Essential Energy
Essential Energy builds, operates and maintains one of Australia’s largest electricity distribution networks, providing a vital service to over 900,000 customers across regional, rural and remote communities.
Our network footprint covers 95 per cent of New South Wales and parts of southern Queensland, traversing 737,000 square kilometres of diverse landscape from the desert to the coast, across alpine to sub-tropical.
Delivering safe and reliable power for our communities is at the core of what we do.
The poles and wires that line our streets deliver the energy that powers the homes, hospitals, schools and businesses that form our communities. But they can also allow for communities to generate, share and store their own electricity.
Through innovation and technology, we are actively supporting the energy transition by inspiring and enabling the network of the future.
Underpinning this is our commitment to the safety of our employees, contractors and the community. We strive to continuously improve our safety performance and we work with the people we serve to promote electrical safety awareness.
We're dedicated to giving back to the communities where we live and work.
Essential Energy, power and people you can rely on, now and in the future.
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