About us

The Creative Co-Operative is Australia's first startup agency that is 100% owned, led and operated by migrant Women of Colour focused on lifting the economic and social access barriers faced by WoC.

We do this through designing and delivering innovative services, programs and products.

Our team is made up of mostly ex Big Four consultants who have left institutional spaces to create better Ways of Working + Living. We wear multiple hats to punch above our weight and we're only getting stronger. Our achievements to date are a result of our high performance + productivity team who have a solution-driven mindset.

Objectives of the Business

The Creative Co-Operative has set a bold goal: in the next 10 years, we’re going to try to get $700 million into the pockets of WoC.

As a young startup social enterprise, we have been on an exciting journey to validate the best way to make this happen. From delivering consulting services to clients so we can employ (and pay) WoC, to pitching for and winning funding to deliver projects that also create short term or microemployment opportunities (to pay) WoC.

To this end we have delivered events, campaigns, are working on producing a book, also on a digital product and finally, an entrepreneurship program by and for WoC - all of which are also geared to amplify and champion the amazing WoC in our community, to the rest of the world. Resulting in >200 transactions and financial opportunities for WoC within our first year of operation.

This year, we’ve also set our sights on growing and digitising our capacity-building offering across entrepreneurship and digital skills to - hopefully - doubling our impact figures. You will be helping to spearhead solutions that are creating history as they successfully break down one barrier after the next.

Marketing Coordinator

We’re looking for a full time Marketing Coordinator (40 hours per week) to support our marketing manager and help build our stellar marketing team. They need to understand intersectionality and be able to work collaboratively with a team of 20+ WoC professionals with technical and lived experience. Keep reading for more details and if you're interested, please apply by submitting a tailored Cover Letter and Resume below.

**NOTE** Applications that do not include a tailored cover letter and resume will not be considered.

About You

You’ll be well versed at leveraging powerful storytelling to help captivate the world to join our community and back our mission so we can achieve our audacious goal. Your expertise across both digital and traditional marketing methods and ability to stay ahead of new trends and tactics will ensure your success in this role.

You’ll be fluent in anti-racism, intersectionality and anti-oppressive frameworks. You’ll be comfortable working in a fast paced, sometimes high-pressure environment and you’re a successful people leader. You’re adaptable, solution driven, autonomous and pro-active. You’re here to get the job done and done well because you understand that quality is something we take pride in when we serve community, our first and foremost stakeholder.

Objectives of the role:

• Supports the Marketing Manager with:
  • Assessing the current and future capability needed by the marketing function
  • Determining the overall marketing strategy for The CCO to meet business objectives
  • Provide oversight of all marketing plans and manage the marketing planning process (including the monitoring of market research and analysis)
  • Devise and manage marketing campaigns within specified budgets to meet specified objectives
  • Work with the marketing team to produce marketing materials and events
  • Brand management and promotion of our reputation
  • Advise on and play an active role in promoting engagement of staff, business partners and community
• Plans and conducts market research to investigate and understand customer and competitor dynamics.
• Work with the marketing team to find innovative solutions to marketing problems, by validating experience and data.
• Uses appropriate channels and tools to engage with our desired audiences.
• Uses research and lessons learned to inform marketing plans.
• Creates unique selling points, and key messages for marketing material.
• Makes creative use of elements relevant to both digital and traditional environments, and drafts appropriate support materials.
• Analyses the effectiveness of campaigns and services and their impact on audience behaviour and business outcomes.
• Organises and participates actively in marketing events.
• Provide effective leadership to the marketing intern and other direct reports

Skills and Qualifications

• We're after 3+ years of experience in a similar role and 2+ years management experience
• Lived experience as a Black, Indigenous or Woman of Colour
• Proficiency with Notion, Google Suite and Slack (or willingness to learn)
• Exceptional organisational, communication and people skills
• Minimum 1 year experience in people management
• Strong ability to multi-task
• Comfort working with multiple groups and intersections across the organisation
• Bachelor's Degree in Business or similar - preferred but not required

What else we look for in all team members

• Understanding and alignment with our ideology and culture.
• Self-awareness of one's own privileges as a result of having more access than other WoC - eagerness to pay that forward.
• Inherently community-minded and not individualistic - i.e. consider the community and the team's needs as well as yours.

**As a social enterprise focussed on WoC employment, we strongly encourage WoC to apply for this paid contract position.