• Permanent full time position
• South Melbourne location

About MacKillop Family Services 

At MacKillop, we believe every child deserves the best. And the best place for children is in a safe and supportive family, where they are nurtured to develop to their full potential. We provide high quality services to promote healing from trauma and loss, and to enable hopeful futures. 

Our existence as MacKillop Family Services began on 1 July 1997. But our history extends back more than 150 years, when the Sisters of Mercy, Christian Brothers and Sisters of St Joseph began their work in Australia, establishing homes for children who were orphaned, destitute or neglected, and for families in need of care and support. Just like our founders, we are deeply committed to our work and we are driven by social justice. 

About the role

This important role is responsible for developing and implementing a marketing and communications strategy for the MacKillop Family Services Institute and its products, to raise awareness of the Institute among key stakeholders and customers and support the Institute to achieve its revenue targets. It is a newly-created role in an exciting start-up environment, established to deliver on one of the key strategic priorities for MacKillop, and support the long-term financial sustainability of the organisation.  

The role will suit an experienced marketing and communications professional with 5+ years’ experience across a broad range of skills including marketing and communication strategy development; stakeholder engagement; brand management; digital communications; media relations; copywriting; and internal communications. 

The role is part of a high-performing, agile communications team that has responsibility for branding, marketing, digital, internal communications and external communications across MacKillop. It reports to the Director – The MacKillop Institute.

The position is based in South Melbourne. Some travel may be required.

About you

We welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Key selection criteria include:

• Tertiary qualifications in marketing, communications or related discipline, with 5+ years’ experience in a similar position
• Demonstrated ability to develop and implement strategic marketing plans, based on market research, assessment of the competitive landscape, market segmentation and data analysis, and experience in evaluating and reporting on performance
• Demonstrated capacity to work collaboratively and constructively with multiple stakeholders, and to demonstrate creativity, initiative and effective personal judgement when working alone
• Exceptional writing skills and an ability to write for different audiences (internal and external) across a range of mediums e.g. newsletters, websites, digital media, advertising and promotional materials
• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities, and work to tight deadlines
• Competency using Microsoft Office Suite.

For a full listing, please review the position description.

If you have any queries, please contact Chelsea Tobin, Director MacKillop Family Services Institute at [email protected], using the subject line: Marketing and Communications Coordinator enquiry via EthicalJobs.

Please address the key selection criteria (as outlined in the Position Description) within your cover letter, as part of your application. 

How to apply

Click Apply Now where you will be redirected to the Marketing & Communications Coordinator vacancy within MacKillop's careers page. On this page please refer to the How to Apply section at the bottom, this will take you to our recruitment portal.

Please address the key selection criteria (as outlined in the Position Description) within your cover letter, as part of your application.

Download the position description HERE.