Overview

• Contract Type: fixed term part-time - 12 months
• Hours: 2 days/16 hours per week
• Start Date: September 2024
• Location: Melbourne
• Salary: $88,712.00 per annum, pro rata, plus superannuation and entitlement

Conditions:

• Position is based at Friends of the Earth Melbourne’s campaigns office at 312 Smith St, Collingwood VIC (or where required remotely)
• The position is part of the Operations Collective and is accountable to the Operations Collective, Strategy Collective and the Board (PAC) where required
• The role is designed to work with the campaign coordinators, operations collective and Friends of the Earth campaigners to tell a cohesive story of who FoE Melbourne is; what we do and how we do it.

About Us

Friends of the Earth (FoE) Melbourne is a not-for-profit community-based organisation working for a socially equitable and environmentally just future for more than 50 years.

Friends of the Earth Melbourne is an anti-hierarchical organisation and a local member group of the national federation known as Friends of the Earth Australia, which in turn is the country member of Friends of the Earth International.

The broader Friends of the Earth International network has over 5,000 local branches across the globe and is the world's largest grassroots environmental network with over 2 million members and supporters around the world. FoE campaigns from the local to the global on today's most urgent environmental and social issues; challenging the current model of economic and corporate neoliberal globalisation, and promoting solutions to create environmentally sustainable and socially just societies.

About the Role

The role is designed to work with the Operations Collective, primarily the Campaign Coordinators and Fundraising and Membership Coordinator of Friends of The Earth Melbourne to support fundraising activities and to tell a cohesive story online of who FoE Melbourne is; what we do and how we do it, using multiple online platforms and social media.

Key Responsibilities and Tasks

• Craft the work of FoE Melbourne into compelling stories that illustrate our values, the diversity of our work, our commitment to community and our transformational impact through producing high quality Reels and media messaging text and graphics that tell the story of who FoE Melbourne is, what we do and how we do it.
• Work with the Fundraising and Membership Coordinator to promote and develop digital components of fundraising events, such as EOFY Appeal, peer to peer fundraising and major donor events).
• Work with Campaign Coordinators to develop digital campaigns that integrate campaign, social media and fundraising strategies and goals.
• Develop the profile of FoE Melbourne’s key social media accounts, primarily Facebook, Instagram and TikTok.
• Prepare short and medium-term digital storytelling/social media strategies in conjunction with Campaigns Coordinators to deliver key outcomes; including improving consistency of the FoE Melbourne voice, increasing post engagement, reaching out to diverse audiences, engaging allies and impacting decision makers.
• Enable rapid response – support collectives during key moments in their campaigns (eg a campaign win, government announcement or major outcome)
• Responding to requests on social media

Key Selection criteria

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Excellent copywriting and storytelling abilities.
• Understanding and proficiency in various social media platforms
• Proficiency in Design and Editing Tools (eg: Canva or video editing programs)
• Understanding of social media analytics and online promotional and marketing strategies
• The ability to work autonomously and under tight deadlines
• Commitment to environmental and social justice values

Salary & Conditions

This is a fixed term contract, based on 2 days/16 hours per week for 6 months

The Digital Storyteller is employed under the Friends of the Earth Melbourne workers agreement.

Friends of the Earth Melbourne has a policy of wage equity and as such all workers are paid at the same hourly rate.

The current commencing pay rate for this position is $42.65 per hour with a yearly salary of $88,712.00 per annum, pro rata, plus superannuation and entitlements.

This position may require a willingness to travel to events in regional Victoria or attend meetings outside regular working hours.

Hours of work

This is a fixed-term 12-month part-time contract for 2 days/16 hours per week (0.4 FTE).

At Friends of the Earth Melbourne, we consider a working day to be 8 hours, with a one-hour paid lunch break and with the option of flexi time within a working day/week.

Accountability

The Digital Storyteller is part of the Operations Collective and is responsible for reporting to operations meetings and campaigners meetings. Day-to-day workload can be developed in conjunction with the full-time campaigns coordinator and at the campaigner's meetings, in consultation with other operations collective members. The Digital Storyteller is also accountable to the Strategy Collective and where required, the FoE Melbourne Board known as the Policy & Advisory Committee (PAC).

A position description is attached.