Community Engagement Specialist

About the job

An exciting time to join The CanToo Foundation’s Marketing and Fundraising team, as we look to grow and expand our reach to make a lasting difference to the health and well-being of Australians, as well as making a lasting impact for people affected by cancer. This is an opportunity to join a small, high-performing team, with a clear and ambitious strategy for growth, in an organisation with a caring and compassionate culture where your work can really make a direct impact.

• Help people smash the barriers to a longer, healthier life for themselves, and people with cancer.
• Be part of a transformative team and develop your career in the process, in an organization that is building and investing in its Marketing and Fundraising capability.
• Based in Woolloomooloo, Sydney with flexible hybrid working.
• $81k + super + benefits

Working directly with CanToo’s Head of Marketing and Fundraising, this role will transform the way we engage and motivate our mighty orange CanToo community, creating exciting opportunities for aspirational fundraisers to be instrumental in both the organisation and your own personal growth. CanToo wants you to flourish, by bringing your skills, expertise, and energy to grow participation and fundraising for our unique fitness programs, so that we can support more groundbreaking cancer research projects. 

We are now seeking a Community Engagement Specialist to engage the current and future CanToo community of participants, supporters, donors, and sponsors to meet and exceed CanToo’s yearly targets on acquisition, participation, retention, and fundraising. You will do this through developing and delivering a multi-channel engagement campaign, working closely with the CanToo programs team and our agency network, to provide an optimal CanToo program experience.

About us

Every year, thousands of ordinary people put their perceived limitations behind them by taking part in exciting CanToo fitness programs, participating in boundary-pushing events, redefining their impossible, making new friends and helping fund vital early-career cancer research.

It’s the 3 C’s that make CanToo so special: Coaching, Community and Cause

No other model gives participants pro coaching, an amazing community of people to achieve their goal with, and the satisfaction of funding brilliant new solutions to the devastating problem of cancer. 

Through our participant and supporter fundraising, CanToo provides research grants on all types of cancers supporting the work of early career cancer researchers setting them up for success in their future careers. Australia loses the skills, passion, and ideas of too many brilliant researchers because of lack of funding. CanToo Foundation does not want people with cancer to miss out on potential new treatments or cures because a breakthrough idea wasn’t given the support it deserved.

About our role

• Develop and implement the yearly Marketing and Communication strategy with a focus on participant acquisition, retention, and fundraising.
• Ensure the CanToo brand, positioning and cause are reflected according to the brand guidelines across all engagement opportunities and communications.
• Develop, deliver, and manage the CanToo program engagement and communications journeys across all channels and for all audiences.
• Produce and manage owned Can Too content and assets such as eDm journeys, owned digital content, participant and fundraising support assets, photos, videos, templates.
• Maintain and manage audience data across CRM and platform integrations.
• Curate the cantoo.org.au website, including optimisation, updates, new program pages and content development and management.
• Manage and coordinate core marketing projects and implement agreed marketing and fundraising strategies.
• Continually monitor, report and test marketing and fundraising campaigns and participant journeys to optimise the audience experience.

About You

• 2+ years applicable experience, preferably in fundraising and/or marketing roles
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in English
• Excellent digital media knowledge. 
• Proven experience with analytics and reporting tools
• Proven experience with fundraising platforms, Funraisin preferred.
• Proven experience with CRM platforms Salesforce and Mailchimp preferred.
• Proven experience with project management tools and leading cross functional projects to deliver on time and on budget.
• Advance level MS Office skills
• Creative Suite skills preferred using Canva.
• Ability to prioritise workload and plan future tasks.
• Ability to work collaboratively in an in house and external team environment, be flexible, inquisitive and take initiative.

If you’re passionate about what you do and are ready to make a difference, apply now. Applications close on Friday 12th April 2024. Please submit your Resume and Cover Letter outlining your relevant experience to ********@cantoo.org. For further information, please contact ********@cantoo.org.au

Only applicants selected for interview will be contacted. 

Employment Expectations

To ensure an ongoing commitment to the success of CanToo, all applications must be able to:

• Successfully complete and maintain a current National Police Check and Working with Child Check relevant to the individual’s state jurisdiction.
• Provide at least two direct referees to ensure a successful reference check is completed.
• Provide relevant copies of professional qualification/s stated on the application.