Communications Coordinator, Events

The Role:

We are recruiting for a very exciting opportunity as a Communications Coordinator, Events, to work within a supportive and highly motivated team located in Blackburn. The core component of this role is executing all email marketing and fundraising communications. We are seeking a talented communications professional, who can manage multiple campaigns simultaneously, from start to end.  With your strong creative writing ability, you will produce content to engage, motivate and inspire participation and fundraising in these events as well as other community fundraising activities.

Your responsibilities:

You will be responsible for coordinating the production of content for fundraising campaigns to maximise impact and return, and ensure that communications are relevant, engaging and motivating for MSL multiple audiences.   Additionally, you will be responsible for coordinating third party contractors (such as videographers, graphic designers and photographers), interviewing clients for cause stories, editing, and creating writing and supporting corporate partners/sponsors.

To be successful in this role, we are looking for someone who has:

• At least two years’ experience in marketing or communications, ideally in a fundraising capacity
• Proven Email Marketing campaign experience, ideally using Salesforce Marketing Cloud is highly desirable
• Knowledge of SEO/SEM and Google Analytics
• Proficiency in marketing automation technology
• Excellent written communication and copywriting skills

Your Qualifications:

You will need to have a tertiary qualification in marketing, media, journalism or similar and ideally within the NFP sector.

So now that you have identified that this may be your next career step, here are the finer and important details to help support your goals:

 Your salary:

This is a full time and permanent position and you will be working from the office in Blackburn.  The position offers a competitive annual salary + super + a generous tax-free salary packaging option (which means more in your take home pay), as well as the opportunity to work within a high profile, highly respected, not-for-profit Australian organisation.

Please note: The appointed candidate must successfully complete a National Police Check (possibly an International Police Check), a Working with Children Check and a Disability Workers Exclusion Scheme check prior to the commencement of employment.