At Australian Kookaburra Kids Foundation (‘AKKF’) our purpose is to empower young people to thrive beyond the impacts of family mental illness. We achieve this by:

Delivering positive mental health outcomes through high quality services that are trauma informed and evidence based.

Delivering services that uniquely integrate recreation with mental health education, on the kids turf and on the kids' terms.

Driving thought leadership and best practice in mental health through research and advocacy for young people and their families across Australia.

The opportunity:

We have an exciting opportunity for a Fundraising Marketing Specialist to join the AKKF Team on a part-time ongoing basis (3 days per week). Reporting to the Senior Manager Marketing and Partnerships, the Fundraising Marketing Specialist will combine strategic thinking with hands-on experience in brand building, data-driven decision-making, and multi-channel campaign delivery.

There is plenty of scope for this newly developed role to grow and evolve with the right candidate. If you believe you can bring fresh energy into a role where your ideas matter and your work creates real change, we’d love to hear from you.

Open to applicants Australia wide

Responsibilities include:

Brand awareness

Plan, develop and deliver strategies to increase awareness of Kookaburra Kids’ brand in order to support growth and sustainability.

Identify and coordinate external providers to support delivery of brand awareness initiatives as required.

Identify opportunities to leverage existing or new relationships to enhance brand awareness.

Fundraising and partnerships

Work with our fundraising team members to promote our partnerships and program outcomes and ensure our funding partners receive appropriate benefits and acknowledgement.

Play a key role in the development and delivery of appeals and other fundraising initiatives.

Graphic Design

Undertake basic graphic design for advertisements (print and web), social media and other collateral materials, and as required brief external agencies providing the same.

Continuous improvement

Reviewing policies, procedures and work practices and make suggestions for change to support our continuous organisation wide improvement.

Embracing a safety culture including client risk reporting, hazard and incident reporting.

Compliance

Ensuring service is provided in accordance with requirements of the Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act, Family Law Act, Privacy Act and legislative codes of conduct.

Ensuring client file processing, filing and archiving is performed in line with AKKF’s requirements.

To be successful in this role you will have:

Tertiary qualifications in Marketing, Communications, or a related field.

A proven track record of developing and delivering innovative and effective marketing strategies.

Confident in managing and optimising social media channels and running targeted digital advertising campaigns.

Strong project management and organisational skills, with the ability to manage end-to-end campaign delivery across multiple projects.

Basic graphic design skills, especially using tools like Canva.

Personal alignment with AKKF values.

Experience supporting fundraising and partnerships in a not-for-profit setting is desirable.

You will be required to:

Maintain a current satisfactory check for working with young people, as per the relevant state/territory legislation.

Maintain a current and satisfactory CrimCheck.

Maintain eligibility to work in Australia.

In return:

Have access to Not-for-Profit salary packaging options

Be part of a passionate, supportive, values-based team

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Remote organisation

Have your birthday off as a day of paid leave

Apply via the link on seek including your resume and cover letter.

Applications will be reviewed as they are received.

If you have any questions, please reach out to us at [email protected]

Child Safeguarding
AKKF is committed to creating environments where the safety and wellbeing of young people is at the centre of our thoughts, values, and actions.