Communications Coordinator – CAN DO

Communicate powerful impact stories from multiple international NGOs
Brilliant part-time opportunity
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We are looking for a skilled communicator who can produce high quality content and coordinate impact stories for the Church Agency Network Disaster Operations (CAN DO) consortium.

Caritas Australia is the lead agency for CAN DO, a consortium of eight church agencies – Caritas Australia, Act for Peace, Adventist Relief and Development Agency, Anglican Board of Missions, Anglican Overseas Aid, Australian Lutheran World Service, Transform Aid International and Uniting World. The CAN DO Coordination Unit is funded by consortium members, managed and hosted by Caritas Australia, and fulfils a central coordination function for the consortium.

Let’s talk about you

You will thrive as the Communications Coordinator if you have:

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, journalism or related field.
• Demonstrated experience in corporate affairs across stakeholder and media engagement, social media, reputation and issues management.
• Proven track record in research, writing and editing for a variety of stakeholders and audience types to publication level.
• Demonstrated experience in building trustful and positive working relationships with collaborative teams, including integrative cross-team environments.
• Experience in concurrently managing projects, and business as usual activities.
• Ability to deal with the media and travel internationally at infrequent times.
• Experience in the international humanitarian and aid sector would be an advantage.

Let’s talk about your next role

In this role, you will be responsible for:

• Driving and coordinating the collection of impact stories from members, supporting with editing and submitting them to DFAT and Australian Humanitarian Partnership (AHP).
• Developing communications guidelines on content sharing.
• Developing the CAN DO Annual Report by coordinating and working with members
• Mobilising the working group by leading communications representatives from each agency and strengthening the roles and responsibilities of the working group to facilitate input on key communications tasks.
• Developing CAN DO brochures and information pieces about what CAN DO is working on by liaising with member organisations for updates.
• Collaborating with Design Monitoring Evaluation & Learning coordinators to create at least 2 well-researched, in depth, long form content pieces (written, photographic/video) a year.
• Monitoring current communications trends and key dates to inform communications with members and donors e.g. International Day of Disaster Resilience.
• Developing and maintaining content for the CAN DO section of the CAN website.
• Making a difference in the lives of vulnerable people

About Caritas Australia

Caritas Australia is the Catholic agency for international humanitarian relief and development in Australia. Through relationships with the Church, partners and communities in Africa, Asia, the Pacific and Australia, Caritas Australia helps to end poverty, promote justice and uphold dignity.

Our programs promote the good of every person regardless of their religious, political or cultural beliefs. We envisage a world in which children, women and men most vulnerable to extreme poverty and injustice are agents of their own change and architects of their own development.

Sound like you?

That’s a good sign! In return for your energy and ideas, we offer genuine flexible work/life balance.

We always support a safe, healthy, engaging and productive working environment for all employees and workers, whether that be in your home, an office or a combination of both.

We are a not-for-profit, so we offer a range of benefits. You can find more out here:  https://www.caritas.org.au/about/careers/work-with-us

Learn more about Caritas Australia, our work and how we’re making a difference at: https://www.caritas.org.au/

We welcome people with different skills, and life experiences and encourage individuals from diverse backgrounds to apply.

Please submit your application including your cover letter and CV as soon as possible. We will be interviewing as applications come through, so please don’t delay in submitting yours. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

For further information regarding this opportunity, please contact the People and Culture team on people.culture@caritas.org.au

Our commitment to safeguarding
At Caritas Australia, we recognise the personal dignity and rights of all people, especially children and vulnerable adults towards whom we have a special responsibility. If you are offered this position, you will be required to undergo relevant background checks, including police checks and reference checks. If the position requires a Working with Children Check or foreign police check, it is your responsibility to obtain one before starting work. You will also be required to sign our Code of Conduct which includes a section on Professional Behaviour Standards for the Protection of Children and Vulnerable Adults as well as to abide by our safeguarding policies.

Our commitment to diversity
At Caritas Australia, we support an inclusive and diverse workforce. In particular we encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants for all advertised positions.