The Visit USA Organisation (Australia) is seeking the services of an experienced and professional Public Relations & Media Officer. The contract role is ideally suited to a freelance communications professional with relevant industry experience and contacts.

The purpose of this role is to manage the organisation's public relations and Australian media profile and exposure, maintaining a flow of information through and engagement with Visit USA members, stakeholders and the Executive and on-executive committees. 

About the Visit USA Organisation (Australia) 
Visit USA Organisation (Australia) is an industry body that promotes tavel to the United States of America. It is funded by individual members from the Australian travel trade as well as from assoicate members in the USA. There is no funding from the U.S. government. The board members of the organisation work vigorously to promote the U.S. as a desirable destination of choice to Australian audiences. This work supports the Australian travel trade members of the organisation, who do the important work of promoting U.S. destinations and products through:

1. Travel publications and brochures;

2. The sales effort of the field sales teams;

3. Printed and Electronic dissemination of product and informaiton

Members pay an annual membership fee, which contributes to the operations of this organisation. The fees are used for work in the promotion of the USA and the dissemination of relevant informaiton. Airlines, wholesalers, destination marketing companies, U.S. product representatives and suppliers of U.S. products are full-paying members of the organisation whilst U.S. based suppliers are associate members. Since its inception, the oprganisation has been actively involved in bringing U.S. based travel and tourism representatives to Australia for city and regional expos as well as media events. The annual Expose now attract more than 65 exhibitors (predominantly from the States) with nearly 900 travel agents in total in attendance in 2017. 

Details of the RFP are available now on our website (www.visitusa.org.au) or from our Secretariat , Clinton White (admin@visitusa.org.au) 

Applications close on Friday 29th July 2017.