The **Marketing and Communications Assistant** supports the General Manager of Marketing & Communications in driving team communication and collaboration, providing administrative support, and delivering on key aspects of the marketing and communications function.
To be successful, you will be passionate about building relationships across the business and being a trusted and responsive support across the marketing and communications team. Your role will be varied and include administration to support the General Manager and broader team, web content management, coordinating merchandise and apparel requests, supporting sponsorships, and maintenance of the image library.
You enjoy being organised and working with processes and systems to ensure that our marketing and communications team is delivering on strategic goals and operating plans. You also enjoy planning events and workshops, team meetings and ensuring they can operate effectively and successfully.
Ideally you will have a qualification in marketing and communications at degree level. Previous experience gained in a similar role where you can demonstrate your strong stakeholder engagement skills, reliability and attention to detail, and energy and desire to make a difference. You also have proven experience in delivering marketing and communications initiatives, enjoy writing and can adapt messaging to suit different needs.
Just as important is your initiative and enthusiasm for:
- Communicating Information: you convince people, challenge ideas and appropriately articulate information to your audience with strong attention to detail.
- Building Relationships: you thrive on interacting with multiple stakeholders, establish rapport easily and impress people with your ability to tailor your communication to their needs.
- Processing Details: You follow procedures, meet timescales and check things thoroughly.
- Structuring Tasks & Time Management: You manage tasks, uphold standards, are reliable, timely and produce outputs required.
**About Dairy Australia**:
Dairy Australia's role is to provide services that benefit and advance dairy farm businesses and the industry. These services deliver value by enhancing farm business management, supporting farm employment needs, driving herd and feed innovation, managing climate and environment, promoting Australian dairy and commitment to sustainability, supporting policy development, growing international markets and responding to critical issues and events such as floods and bushfires.
**Our Vision and Values**:
At Dairy Australia, our vision is simple, _to be leaders in shaping a profitable and sustainable dairy industry_. Our passionate and talented people share this vision and make an impact each day through their commitment to our values of:
- Farmer First - Farmer needs guide our purpose
- One Team - We work together to achieve great things
- Innovative Thinking - We embrace new ideas and learning as we go
- Decisive Action - We make informed decisions and move quickly to implement
**About your work life with us**:
At Dairy Australia, we aim to provide benefits that promote the overall wellbeing of our employees. In joining our team, you will be rewarded with:
- Flexible working environment - a hybrid working environment (at our office in Southbank with our team, combined with at home/virtual)
- Being a key member in our supportive and high performing team of experts in their field
- A caring and innovative culture - we are open to each other's ideas, we love to innovate, we have integrity and are driven to find the best solutions for our employees and stakeholders
- Salary packaging
- Paid parental leave.
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