THE ROLE

The Marketing and Communications Manager is both a strategic and creative role which invites autonomy and self-direction from the successful candidate. This role works closely with the management team including the Managing Director, Impact Manager, Head of Partnerships and the Operations Manager to coordinate marketing and communications right across the organisation. The role is involved in both the business and impact aspects of For Change Co.’s work, including promoting our products and services to customers and shining a light on the social impact that we are having.

Responsibilities include:

• Social media and website management, including producing awesome content,
• Creating an engaging content schedule across our multiple social enterprises’ social media,
• Engage in email marketing to provide updates on our impact to our community,
• Implement and iterate organisation-wide marketing and communications strategy,
• Work with a designated budget and demonstrate ROI,
• Delegating work to and supervising contractors and volunteers,
• Engaging with media, sponsors and partner organisations.

You could be our next Marketing and Communications Manager if:

• You are a social media wizz who doesn’t mind trying their hand at maintaining a website,
• You are multi-disciplinary and are keen to use a plethora of skills (or to find the right people) to complete the task at hand,
• You are autonomous and self-directed in your work, but love being a part of an energetic and dynamic team,
• Your creativity gears towards both problem solving and making a brand look awesome,
• You have knowledge of and experience using paid for and earned media channels including Google Ads and Facebook Business Manager.
• You want to make a tangible difference to the lives of young people experiencing homelessness in Melbourne.

The important stuff:

• This role will be 0.4-0.6 FTE
• Salary will be $65,000-$70,000 pro rata (including superannuation), with generous salary packaging options available.
• The role will be based at various locations across the Melbourne CBD and the Inner-North of Melbourne (initially working from home!)
• Check out the full position description below.