Job description
About us and the role (overview)
As the peak body for Victorian sexual assault and harmful sexual behaviours services, Sexual Assault Services Victoria (SASVic) provides leadership in preventing and responding to sexual assault. This is a time of significant growth for SASVic, responding to profound changes in community attitudes to and government focus on sexual violence. We have changed from a network (CASA Forum) to a peak body, expanded our membership, taken on new projects, significantly expanded our team and are working to shape landmark state reforms. We are now looking for additional staff so we can better drive policy and practice change.
As Communications and Campaign Officer, you will play a pivotal role in making sure our members know about and can help shape policy and practice around sexual violence. You will provide content for communication channels with the leaders of our services, our specialist workforce, our partners, policy and decision makers, and our community.
About the role
Working closely with the Communication and Campaigns Team Leader, and the Policy and Advocacy Manager, your role will be to deliver and optimise two-way communication channels for leaders of our services, the specialist workforce, as well as partners, decision-makers, and our community. This will include identifying and writing content, using content management systems (CMS), social media and marketing platforms, and managing contact lists through our CRM. Additionally, you will provide support in developing other materials for campaigns and events.
Your work will be fundamental to SASVic being able to consult well with our members, so that they feel influential, effective and able to affect powerful change.
The role is 0.6 FTE (3 days/week), ideally Tuesday-Thursday, with all staff working in the office on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Interviews for this role will be conducted the week commencing the 20th November.
The position is for 10 months with the possibility to extend.
Salary range is $71,000 – 96,000 pro rata, depending on experience, plus salary packaging.
Key relationships
You will report to the Communication and Campaigns Team Leader, work closely with the Policy & Advocacy Manager, as well as our Operations Team and develop and maintain collaborative working relationships with all SASVic staff and SASVic members to achieve our shared aims.
Roles and functions
You will do this by:
- Providing and coordinating regular high-quality communications for service leaders and specialist members, as well as partners and other members of the community
- Assisting with the delivery of multi-channel campaigns to call for structural and systemic change
- Supporting teams across SASVic to develop content for public-facing and membership communications and occasional events
- Using tools available as part of the Zoho One platform, including maintaining communication lists through the CRM and reporting on and evaluating communications for optimisation
- Developing strong working relationships with SASVic members and key stakeholders as required
- Participating in organisational development activities required to support the growth of SASVic
What you bring to the role
- Relevant formal qualifications or experience in communications
- Strong analytical skills, ability to synthesise complex information, an understanding of systems and willingness to explore and debate issues from multiple perspectives
- Very strong writing, editing and publishing skills
- Confidence and experience using a variety of communications platforms including email marketing platforms CRMs content management systems& social media
- A collaborative, positive and accountable working style
- Excitement about being part of a new values-driven organisation undertaking significant growth
- A strong intersectional feminist understanding of the dynamics, causes and impacts of sexual violence, at an individual, social and political level
- A deep commitment to ending sexual assault and the rights and recovery of victim survivors
Familiarity with sexual assault services, including Victorian centres against sexual assault, will be an advantage. Experience working in a membership organisation will be well received.
Additionally, you
- must be legally entitled to work in Australia
- must have a current Australian police check (and international where applicable), and Victorian Working with Children Check (if a police check creates difficulties for you, please feel free to discuss with job contact person)
Why work with us
This is an exciting role at a time of significant cultural and policy change in relation to sexual violence. You can help influence sexual violence policy and practice and community views in Victoria, drawing on the expertise of practice leaders from across the state – our members ensure that our policy is grounded in the reality of victim survivors and the services who respond to them.
We are located in a central office location but also offer flexibility to work partly from home (if you chose to).
Benefits include salary packaging and extra leave days between Christmas and New Year.
We want to develop a work team that is representative of our community, and consequently, we actively encourage people with a disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, people of colour, LGBTIQ and people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities to apply.
We encourage applications from people with a disability and will make any reasonable adjustment that you need both in the interview process and on the job – if you need assistance or if you have any questions about the recruitment or application process, please contact Holly Duffy on [email protected] using the subject line: Communications and Campaigns Officer enquiry via EthicalJobs.