Communications and Engagement Lead – Wildsight
As the Communications and Engagement Lead you’ll provide strategic leadership for the communications and engagement team, ensuring cohesive messaging, effective campaigns, strong public presence, and meaningful opportunities for people to engage with Wildsight’s work. You’ll lead the Communications and Engagement team, manage Wildsight’s traditional media profile, work with campaign & program leads to identify and deliver day-to-day communications, content and engagement needs, and steward the Wildsight brand. You’ll lead a team of three focused on communications and engagement (philanthropy and advocacy). The break-down of this job is roughly 20% strategy and planning, 30% team management and content reviews, and 50% delivery of day-to-day communications and fundraising needs.
You will work closely with our campaign teams to plan and deliver communications that lead to wins for the wild. You will join a team that is passionate about protecting nature, dedicated to making positive change and committed to learning and growing.
Qualifications
- Tertiary qualification in communications, marketing, journalism or similarly relevant field, equivalent employment experience in these fields.
- Driver’s license
Essential experience, skills and competencies
- Minimum five years’ experience in communications, fundraising, marketing, public relations or equivalent experience.
- Demonstrated experience developing and implementing communications, engagement and/or fundraising strategies and annual work plans.
- People leader with demonstrated experience leading a team towards shared goals and/or managing diverse stakeholder groups.
- A keen eye for identifying good stories and opportunities to engage the public in action for positive change, plus experience developing and overseeing the implementation of communications & content calendars.
- Exceptional skills in writing, editing and proofing copy for a variety of different platforms and audiences, including social copy, articles, press releases, appeal copy, and website copy.
- The ability to work across numerous projects simultaneously, prioritising your own workflow and directing those of your team members to meet deadlines.
- Working with data to apply an insights-led approach, continually testing, measuring and adapting strategies as needed.
- Experience working with relevant software programs and tools, including Google suite, content management systems such as WordPress, Adobe Creative Suite and Canva.
