About Us

Playground Ideas is a groundbreaking non-profit organisation that uses open source design to help communities all over the world create stimulating and creative play opportunities for their children. It does this by providing free online resources that support and teach communities to plan, design, build and maintain awesome play spaces using locally sourced and recycled materials.

Playground Ideas has to date supported communities in 143 countries to impact over 2.5 million children, and we are growing rapidly and diversifying the services that we provide, including working with schools and child care centres in Australia and globally, to help maximise children's learning through their outdoor spaces.

In 2019 we launched a social enterprise, Nüdel Kart, a deconstructable, mobile play kart that can be reconfigured in endless ways to encourage self-directed learning. It contains research-backed specially selected materials to stimulate children’s development. Since then we have delivered globally and launched a follow up product called the Nüdel Rover.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast paced nimble team in an exciting time of post covid growth.

The foundations have been laid and we are on the road to scale, we need your passion, integrity and experience, to take us to the next level.

Corporate background in marketing, sales or operations. 

About the Role

• Reports directly to the Founder and CEO;

• No two days are the same;

• Project managE the whole team including contractors, CEO and board;

• Develop and implement business, sales and marketing plans;

• Manage / coordinate all marketing functions including CRM, conferences/events, workshops, social media, PR, web development, graphic design and print media;

• Business and partnership development from philanthropic donors and large commercial and not for profit organisations, to international distributors;

• Operations - Oversee production and NPD including assisting with material ordering, logistics, safety compliance and development of associated marketing collateral;

• Management of sales function and meeting key sales targets (with contractor assistance). Includes creating and maintaining leads through to sales conversion;

• Analysis and reporting of marketing and sales data, with a key focus on ROI;

• End of month reporting including board reports, funders reports, AGM and Annual report;

• Budget management process in consultation with CEO;

• Some admin and EA work with the CEO such as invoicing and calendar management as well as process and system implementation.

About you

• Tertiary qualifications in communications, marketing, sales or similar;

• Have relevant experience, (a minimum of 5 years) in a marketing (and sales) role or similar;

• An experienced marketing generalist with strong commercial acumen;

• Love diversity;

• Can work autonomously;

• Self-motivated;

• Happy to get your hands dirty;

• "Can’t" isn’t in your vocabulary, if you haven’t done it before, you’re still willing to give it a go and learn it;

• Super organised and love a spreadsheet; multitasking is your middle name;

• Have great communication skills including written and verbal;

• Great presentation skills.

And just remember, you don’t have to tick all the boxes.

We are looking for someone that has experience in the corporate sector, can switch from strategy to execution, and is willing to give anything a go.

What we can offer

• Flexible working environment

• Full time or 4 days per week

• Variety

• Interstate and international travel may be required from time to time