• Use your digital skills to help drive fundraising and engagement for global change
• Hybrid / flexible working options
• Full-time / One Year Maximum Term Contract

The Opportunity

CARE Australia (part of CARE International) is an international aid organisation working to defeat global poverty by supporting women and girls to create lasting change in their communities.

The Digital Content & Social Media Specialist is a hands-on role responsible for delivering CARE Australia’s day-to-day digital content and organic social media presence. Working closely with Communications, Fundraising and wider teams, this role creates, publishes and optimises high-quality content that is on brand, audience-led and effective in supporting fundraising and public engagement priorities. This role requires strong practical capability in video and photo editing and social platform management, not just ideas.

What you’ll do

As the Digital Content & Social Media Specialist, you will:

• Create, edit, publish and optimise digital and social content across CARE Australia’s owned platforms

• Produce short and medium-form video optimised for social and digital channels

• Own day-to-day organic social publishing, community management and moderation

• Respond to comments and messages and escalate sensitive, reputational or safeguarding issues appropriately

• Source and adapt content and assets from across CARE Australia and CARE International

• Apply platform expertise and audience judgement to tailor formats, tone and publishing approaches

• Support campaign delivery through organic social content

• Monitor performance and use insights to improve content effectiveness and engagement

• Edit short and medium-form basic video using Adobe Premiere Pro, producing platform-ready content for social channels

• Edit images in Adobe Photoshop

• Use Meta Business Suite to publish content, manage comments and messages, apply moderation judgement and review performance insights

Why work with us?

You’ll join a team that values initiative, collaboration and impact — and gives you space to do meaningful, high-quality work. We offer a range of benefits including:

• Generous base salary including 17.5% annual leave loading

• NFP salary packaging benefits (up to $15,899 tax free)

• Health and Wellbeing program

• A flexible and supportive working environment including working from home options

• Additional leave and substitution of public holidays

• Employee Assistance Program

About You

To be successful in this role you will bring:

• Experience creating and publishing organic social and digital content

• Practical basic video editing experience using Adobe Premiere Pro (or equivalent professional editing software)
• Strong audience-led judgement and content decision-making

• Experience managing community engagement and moderation

• Strong written communication skills and attention to detail

• Ability to work collaboratively with internal stakeholders

• A commitment to safeguarding, inclusion and CARE’s values

How to apply

For more information on this opportunity and to review the position description go to www.care.org.au/careers

To apply please click "Apply Now" and submit your CV and cover letter addressing the selection criteria.

Applications will be reviewed as they are received, so we encourage you to apply early.

Questions about the role?

Briony FitzGerald, Senior Manager, Communications and Brand at [email protected] using the subject line: Digital Content & Social Media Specialist enquiry via EthicalJobs.

CARE Australia is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and encourage applications from people living with a disability and/or have lived experience of disability. We also encourage Pacific Islander people, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds to apply.

Should you require any accommodations or support during the application process, please don’t hesitate to reach out and let us know.

Safeguarding and Compliance

All CARE Australia employees are required to undergo a National Police Check, a Working with Children Check and sign our Child Safeguarding Policy, Preventing Sexual Abuse & Harassment (PSEAH) policy and Code of Conduct.

CARE Australia is part of the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme and will seek information from job applicants’ previous employers about incidents of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment, and/or child abuse the applicant may have been found guilty to have committed or about which an investigation was in the process of being carried out at the time of the termination of the applicant’s employment with that employer. By submitting the application, the job applicant confirms they have no objection to CARE Australia requesting the information specified above.

A position description is attached.