ENABLING WOMEN IN AFRICA TO GIVE BIRTH SAFELY

• Globally, every day, 786 women die trying to have a baby. 70% occur in Africa, the vast majority avoidable.
• For every death, about 20 other women suffer an injury, the most feared being an obstetric fistula. Left untreated, a woman suffering a fistula will live a life of incontinence, misery, shame, and ostracism. 40% will plan or attempts suicide.
• Deaths and fistulas occur in Africa simply because many women don’t have access to safe medical care. Fistulas occur very rarely in well-resourced countries simply because comprehensive obstetric emergency care (including a caesarean) is normally available to women.

Motivated by Jesus Christ’s call to love and serve the poor, Barbara May Foundation has responded to this need by facilitating free and safe care for poor and vulnerable women during childbirth and for those already suffering from complications arising from childbirth. We seek to honour women’s dignity and restore their agency by facilitating the repair of obstetric fistulas caused by obstructed labour, and by working to eliminate fistulas and prevent women dying in childbirth.

About Barbara May Foundation

Barbara May Foundation is an Australian registered charity with tax deductibility status established in 2009 by Medical Director, Dr Andrew Browning AM, an obstetrician and gynaecologist, as well as being one of the world’s leading fistula surgeons.

Barbara May Foundation has supported hospitals in Ethiopia, Tanzania, South Sudan, and Northern Uganda. We receive no government funding, and our donors, from all over the world, support the provision of maternal healthcare in Africa.

About the Role

This role supports the marketing and social media functions of Barbara May Foundation. Being an Australian NFP that supports hospitals in East Africa, the stories of impact are most important to tell our audiences, donors, volunteers and supporters as many will support us without ever getting the opportunity to travel to Africa. How we describe our work is vital to who we are and linked to the support we receive.

This role requires great storytelling skills, attention to detail (e.g., ensuring photos are credited with the right women/children from the right countries we operate), timely responses on social media and a level of organisation to balance competing deadlines.

This is a newly created role and is 2 days per week.

Next steps

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We would love to hear from you if you have 2-3+ years of experience in social media management from an agency, brand or freelance experience, with a strong understanding of platform-specific best practices. This is a 2 day a week role.

If you're a great storyteller with the ability to produce compelling written and visual content that engages audiences and stakeholders and happy to jump in and do what is needed, we would love to hear from you. We need someone who is happy to work from home, but also be in close communication with our small but collaborative team. We are mainly Sydney based, but happy to hear from applicants in close regional surrounds of Sydney. We also need someone sensitive to cross-cultural collaboration, especially in regards to visual content.

A position description is attached.