Wesley Marketing & Fundraising

• Full-time position based in Sydney CBD
• Effective communications
• Planning and timelines
• Leadership role

Join the team to make a difference in the lives of children, young people, families, and those in our communities who need our help because you believe like us, every life matters.

About the program and role

A unique career opportunity to help lead the transformation of a purpose driven marketing and fundraising team at one of Australia’s largest charities.

Be part of the marketing & fundraising senior leadership team, bringing your content planning communications, and storytelling passion and expertise to help realise our bold vision and new 5-year strategic plan.

Reporting to the Executive General Manager – Marketing & Fundraising (EGM), this role will work collaboratively with the Manager Creative – Design in the creative delivery of organisational marketing strategy and plans internal and externally. The content planning and copywriting articulation of all communications include telling Wesley Mission’s story through campaigns, branding and other expressions of marketing. You will provide leadership and effective day-to-day management of all creative and content development, from concept through to production and execution into market. In addition, you will manage external creative and production partners and resources to supplement our in-house team to deliver best practice marketing activities that help us achieve our organisational and missional goals.

You have deep experience and a strong track record of communications and content planning and are a gifted storyteller. You will have strong copywriting and editing capabilities, with experience across a broad range of communication formats and channels. As a manager you lead people well to produce high quality work on brief and within the timelines and budget parameters to achieve results. You value people and seek to build understanding enabling insightful communications that deeply resonate with the target audience and achieve the desired response.

As a leadership role within Wesley Mission the successful candidate will reflect Wesley Mission’s vision, mission, values and purpose in their work.

About us

Wesley Mission is a high profile, multi-faceted Christian organisation making a real difference in the community. We work with the most disadvantaged in our community by providing over 200 services ranging from aged care, homeless services, child and family care, counselling, employment, training and education, and health services.

Our Vision is “A Spirit disciple-making movement: doing all the good we can because every life matters”.

Essential criteria

• 15+ years’ experience driving the development and implementation of creative executions aligned to brand and marketing strategies, ideally in both business-to-business marketing and business-to-consumer marketing environment
• Strong capability and experience in communication and content planning
• Strong capability and experience in copywriting, and persuasive and compelling storytelling for the purposes of building brands and marketing services
• Strong capability and experience in stakeholder management (C suite/Executive level)
• Experience managing a team of skilled creative marketing professionals for superior performance
• Strong administrative and computer skills including specific knowledge and capability with creative and design applications and tools
• Proven organisational skills, ability to multi-task, prioritise workloads and produce high quality work while meeting deadlines and budgets
• Demonstrable skills in negotiation, conflict resolution, change management and financial management
• Thorough attention to detail
• Excellent written and verbal skills, public speaking and presentation capabilities, including to a Board
• Outstanding interpersonal skills, flexible, patient and the ability to challenge practices and behaviours

Wesley Mission is a Christian organisation requiring all staff to affirm its values and Worker code of conduct. We are committed to providing an environment in which children can feel safe and valued.

The suitable applicant will be subject to the relevant pre-employment checks for appointment to positions within Wesley Mission (including provision of a valid Working with Children Check clearance number). Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply.

For further information please contact Monique Berkett via [email protected] using the subject line: Manager - Creative - Content Planning & Communications enquiry via EthicalJobs.

A position description is attached.