• Job Type: Full-time or 4 days per week
• Location: Hybrid role (Sydney studio & home)

Mission

You can help create strategic fundraising campaigns and communications for leading Australian and New Zealand charities at an independent agency in Sydney.

The digital, creative and strategy branches of our agency are all rooted in the same purpose: to do work that changes the world for the better. We’re at a moment in time where bold solutions and big ideas are needed. At Marlin, we use our talents every day to provide them.

If you’ve gotten to the stage where you now seek more meaning and purpose, come and join our purpose-driven, award-winning agency!

• Spend your working days using your skills for good;
• Be part of a fun, compassionate and high-performing team;
• Work with charities that are changing the world through groundbreaking medical research, mental health initiatives, animal welfare, overseas development and more;
• Feel proud to work for a B-Corp, committed to making the world a better place.

Our clients include some of Australia and New Zealand’s leading charities including The Wilderness Society, RSPCA, Fred Hollows, Greenpeace and Lung Foundation Australia.

Organisational context for the position:

Charities are a wonderful vehicle for creating change because they empower ordinary people to become advocates and supporters of causes. We created Marlin to help charities get people to join them, and create movements to effect the change we want to see in the world.

As a group of committed people with shared values, Marlin works on these two knotty problems, all day and every day: How do we get people to join charities as advocates and supporters? And how do we keep them?

The role:

We are looking for an experienced digital fundraising strategist, with a passion for working with charities and not for profits to help them change the world.

This is your chance to shine in a supportive and dynamic environment. Working with our strategy and digital teams, you’ll develop and optimise digital campaigns and fundraising strategies across multiple channels and areas of fundraising.

Leveraging your knowledge of tools, strategies and platforms to deliver high performing results, you will love analysing data and providing results to internal and external teams.

You will be a natural at running multiple projects with various timelines as you develop and support the implementation of campaigns across multiple channels with prescribed targets.

This position comes with plenty of future opportunities driven by your strong desire to develop your skills.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Develop, deliver and optimise fundraising campaigns to attract and maximise the value from client’s donors and supporters;
• Monitor, track and evaluate campaign performance analytics, providing regular updates and post campaign reporting;
• Work closely with other Marliners to develop and execute digital marketing and fundraising plans to ensure campaign success based on KPIs;
• Budget planning, forecast and pacing to ensure optimal and predictable spend across client digital fundraising and marketing campaigns;
• Regularly communicate with and provide reports to clients at a senior level
• Suggest fresh and innovative ideas to clients and internally;
• Participate or run meetings, workshops and strategic sessions when required;
• Facilitating and overseeing strategic planning required to meet client objectives;
• Workshop facilitation or assisting Strategy Director with workshop facilitation and post workshop insights gathering;
• Demonstrating excellent written communication and presentation skills;
• Using analytical ability to evaluate and correct propositions and creative communications to ensure effectiveness of marketing and fundraising.

You will:

• Be passionate about social change and you want to use your skills to create a better world;
• Be eager to learn and evolve. You will have significant experience and be an expert in digital fundraising within an agency or non-profit organisation,
• Experience in developing, implementing and optimising successful digital and non-digital fundraising strategies;
• Be comfortable working independently and getting on with tasks, but able to speak up when things aren’t working or aren’t clear;
• Be a confident communicator, able to take on board constructive feedback and articulate ideas to clients/stakeholders;
• Have strong time management skills, experience working on multiple projects with competing priorities, and are able to manage your time; effectively to meet deadlines.

Your work experience and skills:

• 5 years professional agency or non-profit experience in strategy and/or senior roles;
• A strong understanding of Facebook Ad Manager, email marketing, Google Ads and Google Analytics;
• Proven project management skills delivering complex projects on time and on budget;
• A strong knowledge of all the financial aspects of digital fundraising including analysis of costs/income, ROI, conversion and attrition data and all other relevant KPIs;
• Excellent analytic skills and a demonstrated ability in using data to drive results;
• Proven experience developing, implementing and overseeing individual giving fundraising strategies (in agency or organisational side).

About Marlin

Marlin is constantly working towards making our agency the best place to work, for everyone. We believe that bringing together diversity of thoughts, perspectives and expression is key to creating real and impactful change for social good that the world desperately needs. We encourage everyone who wants to make a difference, to join us on this journey. We value all different types of experiences.

Our team

Marlin is a team of 20 or so people brought together by a common set of beliefs and values. Our team of strategists, creatives, project managers, developers and digital experts have all made a conscious decision to specialise in the not-for-profit space.

Our combined experience spans mainstream agencies and in-house at charities. This means we know what it takes to create a global brand, build a high performing website and manage a fundraising campaign from the inside.

We create brand identities, multi-channel marketing campaigns, direct marketing-based appeals, social media campaigns, peer-to-peer fundraising events, donor care newsletters, and digital communications platforms for the for-purpose sector.

Our commitment to sustainability

We’re proud to be a B-Corp which means we have been independently assessed as a business force for good.

To achieve this we are required to prove and maintain policies and procedures which ensure we take care of our team and consider our environmental footprint.. We’re also 100% certified carbon neutral reflecting our deep wish to think and plan for the very long term.

Benefits… apart from changing the world of course!

• Additional annual leave day to celebrate your birthday;
• Social events scheduled throughout the year;
• Annual team development days;
• Access to internal and external Learning and Development opportunities;

How to Apply

Click Apply Now to submit the following:

• A covering lettering outlining why you would like to work at Marlin, along with your salary expectation. Please also attach your CV.

Please note:

• Applicants must be based in Sydney with full working rights and those that do not comply with the full requirements will not be considered.
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.