Role: Digital Communications Coordinator
Employment: Part-time (3 days a week)
Workplace type: Hybrid
Job Location: Sydney
About Habitat
Habitat for Humanity Australia is part of Habitat for Humanity, an international not-for-profit which originated in Georgia, United States in 1976. Habitat for Humanity began as a grassroots effort driven by the vision of a world where everyone has a safe and decent place to live. The housing organisation has since grown to become a leading global non-profit working in more than 70 countries. Since then, it has been our mission to build strength, stability, and self-reliance through shelter. Our Vision is “a world where everyone has a safe and decent place to live.”. We are an inclusive workplace and believe that people should be employed on the basis of merit.
Worldwide, Habitat has helped more than 59 million people access safe and decent housing, along with access to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene and livelihood training to build better lives. Through financial support, volunteering or adding a voice to support affordable housing, everyone can help families build a better tomorrow, today. Through shelter, we empower.
In Australia, Habitat supports vulnerable families through home builds, disaster recovery and resilience and helps restore crisis accommodations for women and children escaping domestic violence. Every year, we mobilise communities and thousands of volunteers to assist in clean ups, restoration and building locally in Australia and overseas.
MORE ABOUT OUR WORK
As the Digital Communications Coordinator, reporting to Digital Marketing and Communications Manager you will be assisting in creating and sharing the important and impactful work we do at Habitat for Humanity Australia across all our digital channels.
ABOUT the role
What professional skills and knowledge you possess:
- Demonstrated experience in producing engaging and compelling content for digital communication channels (including social media channels, EDMs and websites)
- An interest in copywriting and demonstrating strong copywriting skills for blog and social content creation
- Experience or interest in digital content development and marketing
- Exceptional verbal, written and interpersonal skills, and a team-oriented attitude
- Ability to think creatively and develop communications materials for diverse audiences
- Ability to conduct research, interview and tell a story in written form for a variety of audiences
- Experience or interest in social media
- Ability to manage and create social media content calendars
- Ability to use multiple marketing platforms to distribute content
- Community management (including responding and monitoring social media channels messages/comments)
- Ability to multitask, meet deadlines and work to project deadlines
- Organic social media performance reporting
ESSENTIAL
- A minimum of 3 years’ experience in a similar role
- Proven project management skills
- Must be highly organised and process-driven
- A strong interest and ability in writing, copywriting and storytelling
- Be proactive, self-motivated, and accountable
- Confidence to liaise with internal stakeholders at all levels
- Extremely organised
- A love procedures and processes
- Proven attention to detail
- Tertiary qualifications in communications, journalism, marketing or a related discipline.
- Must live in Sydney or close to be able to conduct interviews, manage photography and filming for projects
DESIRABLE
While these may not be essential the candidate must be willing to learn how to use platforms and new skills.
- Experience using Canva on a basic level (crop, edit, and trim images/video)
- Experience using Loomly or Buffer (or similar social media marketing platform)
- Experiencing using Pardot (email marketing platform or similar)
- Ability to translate written stories into short-term video scripts and create social media video content
- Experience or interest in SEO
- Proof-reading skills
- An interest in international development/not-for-profit sector
PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS
Is proud and supportive of Habitat’s work and is self-motivated and proactive. Supportive of the ethos of an aid organisation and its mission and vision.
What we can offer you
- Flexible working arrangements ( hybrid model)
- Opportunity to participate in volunteering activities
- Field experience interviewing and meeting beneficiaries (some travel involved)
- Communications team meetings working with other Habitat Offices across Asia and the Pacific
- Training and upskilling budget
- Fantastic, fun and supportive work culture
HABITAT’S STATEMENT OF EXPECTATIONS SURROUNDING SAFEGUARDING
Habitat for Humanity requires that all employees take seriously their ethical responsibilities to safeguarding our intended beneficiaries, their communities, and all those with whom we work. Managers at all levels have particular responsibilities to support and develop systems that create and maintain an environment that prevents harassment, sexual exploitation and abuse; safeguards the rights of beneficiaries and community members (especially children); and promotes the implementation of Habitat for Humanity’s code of conduct.
HOW TO APPLY
Send your CV and cover letter to Monique at [email protected] with subject line: Digital Communications Coordinator Applicant. If you have any written articles or portfolio of written work please include it in your application.