• Permanent Part-time, 32 hours per week
• EM3: $33.98 per hour
• Melbourne – Preston
• Hybrid working arrangement

ABOUT CERES

CERES is a not-for-profit environmental education centre, urban farm, and social enterprise hub spread across four locations, linked by the Merri and Darebin Creeks on Wurundjeri Country, Melbourne. We exist to help people fall in love with the Earth again. Starting as a rubbish tip, CERES has grown into a thriving green hub: a model for urban farms around Australia, a living education centre for environmental best practices, and an incubator for better business and ideas that might just change the world.

More than half a million people visit the site each year, and its social enterprises – which include cafes, market gardens, an organic grocery and bakery, sustainable timber, home-delivered groceries (CERES Fair Food), a retail nursery, workshops, school education, and regular events and festivals - reach many more.

You can read more about CERES, our educational programs, and other social enterprises on our website: ceres.org.au.

about CERES fair food

CERES Fair Food is a social enterprise that delivers organic fruit veg and ethical groceries to Melbournians’ homes – starting in 2010, growing from a staff co-op at CERES park. The social enterprise is now delivering to 1,000 homes every week, right across Melbourne.

CERES Fair Food;

• Supports organic growers & sustainable farming and ethical local makers,
• Encourages minimal packaging, preferring reusable, returnable, and sustainable
  packaging,
• Reinvests 100% of profits in environmental education programs at CERES park, Brunswick East.

Can food be fairer? ceresfairfood.org.au.

Where you come in

As the Digital Content Creator you’ll work with the Marketing Manager to create content and campaigns on social media to help drive business outcomes for CERES Fair Food, with a special focus on food via recipe development and fruit, veg, and “real” good food products-related posts.

You will contribute to the marketing strategy and assist the Marketing Manager with business-as-usual marketing activities such as taking photos of new products to list on the website, developing point-of-sale materials, and bringing to life CERES Fair Food’s involvement in CERES weekend food festivals such as the CERES Harvest Festival in March or CERES Olive to Oil Festival in May.

This involves:

• Delivering engaging and inspiring activities.
• Managing and maintaining social channels.
• Developing new campaigns by working closely with the Marketing Manager.
• Updating the CERES Fair Food recipe collection, refreshing old content, and developing new recipe content.

Does this sound like you?

You’ll have a genuine interest in CERES Fair Food areas of impact: supporting farmers, healthy ecosystems, resilient communities, regenerative food systems, and local well-being economies.

This role requires:

Essential

• You love fruit, veg, and natural food & consider yourself an enthusiastic foodie who is passionate about cooking and sharing real unpretentious good food prepared from natural ingredients.
• Experience managing social media communities.
• Adept at navigating and creating content for Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest.
• You’re handy with a camera or phone and able to turn ideas into reality.
• Solid copywriting with the ability to make a caption or a paragraph highly readable.
• You can take complex concepts and make them simple and inviting.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively.
• Attention to detail.
• Comfortable editing content on websites (WordPress, Elementor Ideal) and troubleshooting when required.

Please see the full Position Description below.

Working at CERES is more than just a job

It’s the feeling of knowing that your work is contributing to making the world a better place and working with others who feel the same.

In addition to a connection to social causes you will have access to:

• Agile working environment including working from home
• Generous Award/Non – Award entitlements including paid breaks
• Access to all CERES’ unique environments including the park with strong links to the environment and community
• Generous staff discounts across many CERES enterprises and products including educational programs and café purchases at Merri Café.

Sound interesting?

We’d love to hear from you! Please submit a cover letter addressing the Person Specifications, a resume, and three examples of your copywriting in a similar tone to CERES Fair Food. Examples of different lengths are appreciated. Please include these as one document.

A position description is attached.

At CERES we seek a workforce that is as diverse as our society – in ethnicity, gender, age, sexuality, disability, culture, and beliefs – and reflects the communities we work in. We believe diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our culture and core values and we demonstrate this commitment through all our employment practices. Our inclusive workplace culture contributes to making CERES a great place to work. We actively encourage people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds, people from CALD backgrounds, LGBTIQA+ people, people with a disability and others to apply.

CERES Child Safe standards;

• In line with the Child Wellbeing and Safety Amendment (Child Safety Standards) Act 2015, CERES is committed to upholding the Victorian Child Safe Standards, to the best of its abilities and resources.
• CERES Upholds itself as an organisation committed to the right to survival, protection, development, participation, and empowerment of all children and young people.
• Is committed to the cultural safety of Aboriginal children, young people, and children and young people from culturally diverse and/or linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds and to providing a safe environment for children and young people with a disability.