• Do you want to do work that really matters and help to secure a future where people and nature thrive?
• Part time (2 days per week pro rata with potential to expand), fixed term 12-month contract
• Location: remote/work from home
• Competitive salary

TierraMar is a dynamic national environmental organisation that has embarked on a 10-year journey of growth as we aim to help build a future where people and nature thrive together by 2030. To support that growth, we are looking for a qualified Manager Communications and Marketing, working part time (2 days a week) who is interested in building resilient communities and reversing nature loss by doing conservation differently. We work mostly in marine conservation with communities across Australia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific.

We are looking for a switched on and enthusiastic person to support our organisation by applying their exceptional communications and marketing, project management and writing skills, working with the Managing Director and others to deliver a best practice communications and marketing program to support our core mission.

If you are looking for an opportunity that will motivate and excite you to go to work every single day…. if you have commitment and desire for helping to secure a future where people and nature thrive then we want to hear from you.

ABOUT US

TierraMar, established in 2008, recently became a registered charity that applies nature-based solutions and other innovative approaches to secure a future where people and nature thrive. We focus on Australia, the Pacific and Coral Triangle to unlock new and innovative thinking and collaborations, foster tomorrows change makers, and enable community led action on the ground. Our mission is to build resilient communities and reverse nature loss by helping to unlock transformational change. Our mission is being delivered through five strategic programs, with our current focus on two, namely GhostNets Australia (GNA) and Generation Nature+ (GenN).

Strategic Program: GhostNets Australia

TierraMar has been involved in GNA since its creation and took over the long running, award winning program in 2016. Our focus is on northern Australia as well as other hotspot areas in Australia, the Coral Triangle and Pacific. Globally, ghostgear is a major sea-based source of marine debris. Nets are the most harmful type of marine debris, entangling and killing marine wildlife and can persist for decades. In Australia, ghostgear has been a major issue for many years, particularly in northern Australia and the Gulf of Carpentaria, with over 15,000 nets reported since 2004. The prevailing currents and conditions in the Arafura and Timor Seas and the Torres Strait make the Gulf of Carpentaria a global ghost gear and marine debris ‘hot spot’.Given the nature of ghostgear to continue fishing, they can entangle large, long-lived and slowly reproducing threatened, endangered and protected species like marine turtles, marine mammals, sharks and rays. Ninety percent of marine debris and ghostgear in northern Australia are foreign in origin so stopping the problem at the source is the best solution. TierraMar is working with our partners and through regional partnerships to develop and implement a regional action on marine debris and ghostgear and establish fit for purpose and financially sustainable disposal solutions that benefit communities. The second largest contributor to ghostgear in Australia comes from recreational fishing. TierraMar has recently commenced working with our partners to develop and implement a national plan of action to address litter and ghostgear from recreational fishing.

Strategic Program: Generation Nature+

Generation Nature+ is a new program focusing on fostering tomorrow’s change makers and connecting people with nature. With the pressures of daily life, many Australians are disconnected to nature and have limited understanding of its value and importance in sustaining the planet and for our own health and wellbeing. Connecting Australians with nature is essential for our long-term mental and physical health, economic prosperity and in maintaining First Nations culture and identity. It is the younger generations, our future leaders, employees, business owners, entrepreneurs, and policymakers who will be charged with addressing the impacts of climate change, deteriorating ecosystem health, depleting, or altered water availability, and biodiversity loss. The next generation must be equipped with the knowledge, understanding and skills to address the challenges posed. Many are exiting the school system ill-equipped or with insufficient understanding of the scope and scale of these challenges, and are therefore unable to actively engage in ideating, designing and implementing viable nature-based solutions and climate neutral and nature positive decisions, irrespective of the industries or careers they pursue. Our focus is on building a nation where children have access to the benefits of nature everywhere the live, learn and play and the skills and knowledge to act as tomorrow’s leaders. This will be complemented with a broader but linked and targeted Nature Positive Communities Program that leverages key partnerships and strengthens and aligns policies towards increasing Australians’ connection and understanding of nature to reduce the impacts of activities and decisions on nature at all levels into the future.

ABOUT YOU

You are an experienced and enthusiastic communications and marketing professional, with the ability to develop and deliver marketing and communications strategies to support TierraMar’s objectives, and a passion for conservation and connecting people to nature.

Key responsibilities

• In collaboration with the TierraMar leadership team, lead the strategic positioning and further development of the TierraMar brand strategy with materials that portray a consistent, differentiating story to achieve TierraMar’s vision and purpose.
• Provide communication advice to internal stakeholders and develop targeted plans to promote TierraMar's work and strategic objectives.
• Create and implement forward-thinking, organisation-wide communications and messaging to promote TierraMar’s work globally.
• Manage all communications and marketing activities, including issues management, brand development, media relations, events, media campaigns, and crisis communications.
• Provide strategic leadership and media advice to TierraMar board and Program team across all communications activity, including campaign development and execution, media relations, and content creation.
• Develop and deliver communication content, products, media, synthesis material and training to support implementation.
• Manage brand and reputational risks across the organisation.
• Provide regular reporting on communication activities to demonstrate their effectiveness to relevant internal stakeholders and identify opportunities for improvement.
• As required supervise and lead staff to support the delivery of special initiatives/events and projects; and other duties as required.

Skills and experience/Selection Criteria

You are an experienced and enthusiastic communications and marketing professional, with the ability to develop and deliver marketing and communications strategies to support TierraMar’s objectives, and a passion for conservation and connecting people to nature. You possess the following skills and attributes:

• Qualification in Journalism, Marketing, Philanthropy, Communications, or a related field.
• Minimum of 6+ years’ experience in not-for-profit marketing, strategic communications, public relations.
• A proven track record of successful development and activation of effective branding, marketing and communications strategies.
• Experience of working with and engaging senior staff, CEOs, and board members in donor/client relationships.
• Demonstrated skills and experience creating, executing and measuring marketing-communication activity to successfully reach target audiences and support our strategic aims.

• Knowledge of public educational materials and communications and marketing production, including print and electronic (video, social media, web) published processes, procedures, and techniques.

• Sound knowledge of the media, fundraising and public relations landscape in Australia, including good networks and connections into government and media circles.
• Exceptional relationship building and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Superior writing skills, and experience in multiple forms of persuasive writing including success stories, news, talking points, brand building, media Q&A and presentations.
• Proficiency in digital communications and social media.
• Skill in proposal writing, budget preparation, and financial management.
• A commitment to TierraMar’s vision, mission and values.

Desirable

• An awareness and understanding of marine conservation, working with different cultures and empowering and engaging communities, particularly women and youth in a developing country context.
• Passion for and experience in international development and/or conservation-related communication materials across the Indo-Pacific.

If this sounds like you, please click Apply Now and follow the prompts. If you don’t have all the skills outlined, but feel you have a lot to offer the role, please still apply.

TierraMar is an equal opportunity employer opportunity and does not discriminate based on gender, race, colour, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, and any other group.