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Form of workIf you are looking for a position where you can grow your skills in marketing and communications in a supportive environment, while adding value to our Queensland communities, then this could be the role for you!
About the role
The Communications Assistant role is ideal for someone starting out or early in their communications / marketing career. The Communications Assistant will play an important role supporting the Commercial/Communications team and the operational goals of Independent Schools Queensland.
The role requires a confident ‘go getter’ who can gather information from various sources to be collated and disseminated for upload into CMS, CRM, events and online learning systems. The position will require some creative writing skills to develop emails, event summaries, social media ads, reports and promotional brochures. The position will also assist the events team with registrations and events admin.
Please take a look at the full position description on our website www.isq.qld.ed.au on the Work With Us page.
Benefits
- Brand new office environment located in the heart of South Bank.
- Flexible work options including working from home arrangements for part of the week.
- Very competitive remuneration package.
- Opportunity to salary package some personal expenses.
- Friendly and collaborative work culture.
- Focus on personal and career development opportunities.
About you
- Proficient in using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
- Experience in creating email campaigns via an email marketing platform (Microsoft Dynamics Marketing)
- Experience in using a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software
- Microsoft 365 experience (SharePoint and Microsoft Teams)
- Content Management System (CMS) experience
- Social media experience
- Creative writing experience
- Event management experience (registration, food, beverage and audio-visual management).
- Excellent organisational and time management skills and the ability to prioritise different responsibilities
- A pro-active approach to identifying and completing tasks
- Well-developed written and oral communication skills
- A strong attention to detail and accuracy
- A positive and professional work ethic
- The ability to liaise with members, internal staff and other key stakeholders
- The ability to work as part of a team and to work unsupervised when required.
The following skills are not essential, but would be advantageous:
- Event Management Registration System experience, ideally Microsoft Dynamics or Events Air
- Experience in working with Power BI
- Experience in working with Moodle
- Graphic design experience, ideally Adobe InDesign, Photoshop and Canva
- Podcasting, photography and/or video editing experience.
About us
Independent Schools Queensland (ISQ) is the peak body representing Queensland's independent schooling sector. We represent over 200 diverse member schools across Queensland, and these range from small community schools to large Prep to Year 12 schools and cater for families from a variety of social and economic backgrounds. ISQ provides a united and powerful voice representing and promoting the interests of member schools to governments and the wider community, fostering choice in education and protecting the autonomy of independent schools. Our mission is to champion independent education and to support independent schools to serve their communities. ISQ is a non-profit membership organisation with more than 50 years’ experience at the forefront of education innovation.
If this role sparks your interest, please apply by submitting your resume and cover letter via Seek highlighting how your experience meets the skills and experience requirements. Please contact Rachel Wolfson, HR Business Partner on 07 3228 1519 if you have any queries.
