We’re looking for an exceptional and creative Social Media Specialist who fits into our tech-savvy, forward thinking team of digital marketers. Working closely with multiple teams across the organisation, you’ll drive our ambitious social media strategy and create engaging, compelling and innovative content. Across all our social media channels, we want you to inspire donors around Australia to connect with our mission to meet our ambitious goals to save the lives of children here in Australia and around the world.

Save the Children and 54 reasons: A place where your purpose matters.

It takes all types of personalities and talents to drive our organisation– yours included. We value a healthy work-life balance and ensure our people feel connected to each other and our impact. Learn from inspiring people and grow from a connection to our strong local and global networks. From our programs to our support services – this is the place to realise your purpose.

A place to make a difference:

Here you’re empowered to make a difference in children’s lives by learning, sharing and collaborating to find new ways to solve problems.In this full-time, permanent role, you’ll work as a part of our Digital team in our head office in Carlton to help us create lasting change for children everywhere. The Channel & Content Specialist plays an important role in delivering on our vision of a better world for children. Whether it’s delivering Save the Children Australia’s social media strategy or recommending, creating, posting and measuring relevant content to meet agreed objectives and drive engagement, you’ll be contributing to our commitment to children in Australia, the Pacific and around the world.

You will make a difference by:

• Working with the communications team to create and edit written content, images and videos
• Maintaining close working relationships with key internal stakeholders to ensure a collaborative approach to social media communications planning
• Developing and refining community engagement best practices, content plans and reporting
• Providing ongoing feedback to internal teams on social media industry trends and issues

A place to feel valued:

Your deep expertise and passion in your work, your relentlessly inquisitive nature and your creative and strategic mind is invaluable. You’re knowledgeable about world issues, you’re excited by growing social media communities and you know exactly how to use data to help guide and tell stories. Finally, you’re outcome focused, highly organised and confident switching between in-depth data research and collaborative creative environments. We recognise your contribution and provide you the support to ensure you can bring your best, knowing here you have the space and opportunity to grow. Bringing your best every day, means that you possess:

• Proven Social Media content production skills (writing copy, sourcing/editing photos, sourcing video)
• Thorough knowledge of Social Media Platform analytics and performance tools
• Proven project/campaign management skills, with the ability to work to tight deadlines
• Highly developed verbal and written communication skills
• Community moderation experience

A place to belong:

It takes all types of people to do the challenging work we do. We are diverse personalities, backgrounds and talents, embracing our differences as one strong and united team. We see and celebrate the unique value you bring to our organisation, and offer a range of rewards for your effort, including:

• Individual learning plans to help map and deliver on your career development
• A modern, up to date working space, or the opportunity to work from home (WFH), or both!
• Kids are welcome! We understand the demands of working parents and we have safe, accessible spaces where our little people can relax while their mums or dads help other children and families
• Full salary packaging benefits (please use this link to see how much this benefit could mean to you!)
• Extra leave to use in a range of ways to ensure you’re able to perform at your optimum

Follow this link for the full list of our employee benefits.

Does this sound like the place for you?

We’d love to hear from you. Submit your cover letter and resume by clicking on one of the buttons in the ‘Apply’ section. Candidates who progress to the next stage may be invited to participate in a video screening interview.

Position Description – Social Media Specialist

Applications close COB, Wednesday 15^th May 2024.

We have tested our application process with diverse groups in mind, with the intent to ensure it’s straightforward and accessible for all to apply. Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our culture and improve our ability to reach our most vulnerable client groups. But we also know there is no one-size fits-all when it comes to recruitment – so if we didn’t quite hit the mark for you, please let us know at [email protected]. We’re dedicated to ensuring Save the Children Australia is a place where everyone can feel supported – no matter your race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexuality, neurodiversity, culture and beliefs.

Save the Children Australia is a child-safe organisation. All employees are required to undergo a National Police Check, a Working with Children Check, and sign our Child Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct. We also support the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. You can read about the Scheme and our commitment to Safeguarding here.

Save the Children is committed to providing and maintaining a safe working environment for its employees and client groups, consistent with our obligations under OH&S legislation.

If you are having any issues with uploading your application for this role, please contact [email protected] for further support.