• Promote ECMS for optimal awareness, utilisation and ongoing sustainability
• Would suit candidates looking to step into management
• Candidates from the NFP, education, or commercial sectors welcomed
  

The Organisation

Early Childhood Management Services (ECMS) purpose is to “foster lifelong learning” for children, their families, our team, and our partners. We are a not-for-profit operating 61 early years services across 19 municipalities in the greater Melbourne area. Over 6500 children across Victoria attend an ECMS kindergarten or early learning centre each week.

Benefits & Culture

• Work with creative colleagues who are committed to the early childhood sector
• Based in a sought-after location in Northcote with a flexible, high-trust working culture
• Professional development opportunities and space to grow your career
• Progressive leadership team
• Play a leading role in transforming an organisation to have a greater impact on children

The Role

This management position leads the marketing, events, and enrolment activities to ensure ECMS is positioned for optimal delivery of all its services across Victoria, supporting growth and sustainability to provide quality early childhood services.

Playing a leading role in managing the customer’s journey, this diverse role is also responsible for:

• Managing the enrolment to retention process and promoting the ECMS brand
• Preparing and implementing marketing plans in line with organisation objectives
• Overseeing and implementing day-to-day marketing activities across services
• Implementation of a new enrolments system
• Event management, including a high-profile annual conference
• Tracking the performance of marketing campaigns against enrolments data and providing solutions to increase utilisation of services
• Managing the enrolments coordinator team member.

Skills Required

You currently work in the NFP, education, or corporate sectors in a marketing, communications events management, or sponsorship team and looking for a step into a management role. To be successful in this role, you will have:

• A passion to grow the sector, promoting quality, inclusive early childhood services
• Experience in business development and/or supporting a sales team
• An ability to identify target audiences to attract, inform and foster relationships
• Tertiary qualified in marketing, communications, or related discipline
• Knowledge of CRM systems and marketing automation tools
• Knowledge of social media analytics and reporting tools
• A friendly, approachable manner with an aptitude for staff management.

If you want to use your marketing and sales skills to improve the quality of early year’s education for Victorian children, please apply by submitting your cover letter responding to the skills required above and resume. Alternatively, contact Anna Skeels in Melbourne on 03 8080 8976.

Please note there is no formal closing date for this role, if you are interested we would encourage you to apply as soon as possible.