• Location: Australia wide
• Term: 6 months (backfill)
• Full-time: 37.5 hours (0.8 FTE will be considered for the right applicant)
  
• Remuneration: SCHADS Level 7-8: $117,300 – $131,555 + 11.5% super + 17.5% Annual Leave Loading
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are particularly encouraged to apply

We are looking for a talented fundraising and marketing professional with demonstrated management skills and high emotional intelligence to lead a talented team.

Job title: Head of Marketing and Fundraising

Reporting to: Director of Fundraising, Marketing and Communications

Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) is the largest environmental legal centre in the Australia-Pacific, dedicated to protecting our climate, communities and shared environment by providing access to justice, running ground-breaking litigation and leading law reform advocacy.
Since time immemorial, First Nations and Indigenous peoples have been taking care of their Countries in Australia and the Pasifik. These deep understandings, knowledges and experiences are critical to maintaining the health and vitality of Australia and the Pasifik’s unique wildlife and ecosystems. EDO respects these great knowledges and strongly believes that EDO cannot achieve a world where nature thrives without working alongside First Nations and Indigenous peoples.

The opportunity:

We are looking for a strong communicator with demonstrated marketing and fundraising experience to join our Fundraising, Marketing & Communications Team.

This role offers the opportunity to promote the role of EDO and its achievements for communities, nature, and the environment. You will be responsible for developing and executing EDO’s everyday giving, regular giving, marketing, and communications strategies across the organisation’s paid, earned, shared, and owned channels.

You will manage staff, resources, outputs, and priorities to achieve the goals of EDO’s FMC Team and the overall goals of the organisation. You will oversee EDO’s content, website, and social media platforms to ensure that the overall aesthetic, visual language, key messages, and tone of voice are in brand alignment and executed with high understanding and knowledge of the supporter.

The Head of Marketing & Fundraising plays a key role in developing and executing everyday donor and regular giver acquisition, fundraising and retention strategies in collaboration with the Director of Fundraising, Marketing and Communications, and works with the Head of Philanthropy to achieve consistent branding on major donors communications, as well as collaborating on the design and implementation of digital strategies to engage and acquire major donors.

Candidate Profile:

We are looking for a talented marketing and fundraising professional with demonstrated management skills and high emotional intelligence to lead a talented team.

The role is responsible for growing EDO’s brand presence both in Australia and internationally and running two major lines of income generation, including our twice-yearly appeals and regular giving program. The successful candidate will have at least five years’ experience in building and executing fundraising strategies... They will have high emotional intelligence to lead a team that works across the country and can coach that team to generate the highest professional growth.

Key selection criteria:

Core skills

• Demonstrated experience in marketing and fundraising strategy and execution.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to make sound judgements and decisions based on consideration of different views.
• Accuracy and attention to detail along with the ability to edit the work of others.
• Excellent brand building skills with a focus on building brand equity.
• Demonstrated ability to work productively and to deadlines.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills suited to a range of audiences.
• High technical competency and knowledge of digital tools and channels.
• The ability to lead and develop a team with compassion and emotional intelligence.

Substantive experience

• Experience in leading fundraising appeals including digital, direct mail and regular giving. A background in or knowledge of the law/and or science highly desirable.
• Demonstrated experience working with First Nations people or diverse communities and individuals highly desirable.

Personal qualities and cultural competency

• A champion of the EDO values
• Strong initiative and self-motivation
• Commitment to the protection of human rights and the environment
• A strong sense of ethics and understanding of professional obligations
• Demonstrated awareness of and sensitivity to the needs and concerns of First Nations and peoples from diverse cultures, backgrounds, and orientations in both the delivery of our work and our internal culture
• Demonstrated ability to work in a collaborative and team-based environment

Our Culture and Benefits:  

• We care deeply about creating a workplace where our team members feel valued, respected and empowered. We are committed to providing equal opportunity regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or life stage.
• The chance to be part of the largest environmental legal practice in the Australia-Pacific.
• A very flexible and family-friendly workplace.
• Option to work from home.
• 8 weeks paid parental leave, regardless of gender or carer status
• 15 days personal/carers leave
• 20 days annual leave
• 10 days paid family and domestic violence leave per year
• 3 days paid cultural leave per year
• Extra leave over the Christmas period
• Access to EAP.
• Ongoing professional development opportunities.
• EDO proudly has a JEDI (Justice, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion) Committee and a Mental Health Ambassador Committee, and has developed a First Nations Program with the aid of indigenous-led consultancies. 
• Three Affinity groups for the following: Disability, Global Majority* and LGBTQIA+

*Global Majority is a collective term that first and foremost speaks to and encourages those so-called, to think of themselves as belonging to the majority on planet earth. It refers to people who are Black, African, Asian, Brown, dual-heritage, indigenous to the global south, and or, have been racialised as ‘ethnic minorities’.

Our Values

Commitment – We are committed to; a united organisation, to each other, to collaboration, to justice, to our communities and to creating a world where nature thrives.  

Diversity – We are respectful of and welcome diversity of staff, volunteers, offices, environmental regions, communities, stakeholders.  

Integrity – We work effectively, efficiently, strategically, professionally, and ethically; “justice is in our nature”.  

Vision – We lead change and environmental empowerment using innovation, creativity, and courage.  

How to Apply

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• To review the position description, please see this link: https://www.edo.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/EDO-Position-Description-Head-of-Marketing-Fundraising-May-2025.pdf

If you have queries regarding this advert, please feel free to contact us at [email protected] using the subject line: Head of Marketing & Fundraising - Flexible Location / Australia Wide enquiry via EthicalJobs.

Applications will close on the closing date and interviews will take place in the first week of July.

Applications must include a CV and a letter that clearly addresses each of the selection criteria above.
The Key Selection Criteria show the minimum essential requirements of the position. The desirable criteria outline additional attributes which would enable the successful candidate to perform the role more effectively; they are not essential but may be used to distinguish between applicants during the shortlisting process.

EDO particularly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, Pacific Island people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, workers of all ages, people with disabilities and people who identify as LGBTQIA+.

Please note: Your application may be considered for future roles at the EDO within the next 12 months without additional advertising. Please notify us in your application if you would not like to be considered for similar roles beyond this recruitment.

If you have any accessibility needs for the recruitment or interviewing process, please let us know in your application or by emailing [email protected] using the subject line: Head of Marketing & Fundraising - Flexible Location / Australia Wide enquiry via EthicalJobs.

Vaccination Requirements

EDO is not issuing a vaccination mandate. EDO staff have the option to share vaccination details within the EDO HRIS system, EDO will maintain this record of vaccination status of EDO employees, however if staff do not wish to disclose this information, it will not be enforced.

Working with clients face-to-face:

EDO works with diverse peoples and groups across the Australian and Pacific communities, including people who are considered a high-risk group in terms of COVID-19.

In order to ensure the safety of all EDO employees and the people we work with and around, staff visiting overburdened communities are required to take a COVID-19 test three (3) days prior and on the day of travel to the overburdened community.

Other Information

All offers of employment may be subject to satisfactory background checks including a National Police Check, disclosure of previous or current disciplinary action, referee checks, proof of eligibility to work in Australia and qualification checks.