The Fair Agenda movement is supported by a small but mighty staff team who support our 41,000 members to mobilise for a gender equitable and just future.

We are looking for a digital storyteller & social media coordinator to join our team, and work across our campaign areas to develop engaging and persuasive content that helps us win a more fair and gender just future.

This is a new role, which will join an existing national team of five, which will expand to seven team members from September.

The details

Loading: This role is available on full-time basis (we’re also open to applicants interested in 0.8 or 0.9 FTE loading). This is a new role, with an initial contract for 12 months, with the possibility of extension.

Location: Negotiable, with a preference for applicants to be located on the east coast, within an hour of an airport. Team members currently work remotely in Vic and SA, with a team member on parental leave based in regional NSW.

Flexible work: We provide flexible work options. Right now members of the team start and finish between 8am/10am and 4pm/6pm Eastern time, and work from home or a local co-working space.

Leave: We offer 14 days personal leave pro rata (available for broad use, including caring, mental health, menstrual and menopause); as well as domestic and family violence leave, cultural and ceremonial leave, gender affirmation leave, and 20 weeks paid parental leave. We provide 4 weeks of annual leave pro-rata, on top of the shut down period between Christmas and New Years public holidays.

Salary: The salary range for this role is $90,500 - $97,250 plus super. .

Exact salary within this range will be set in line with a skills matrix for the role (i.e. you do not automatically start at the bottom of the band). The matrix and assessment are made available for transparency, with an opportunity for input and feedback.

Start date: Flexible, but ideally late August / early September.

Travel: Please be aware there is an expectation the successful candidate would be able to travel – i.e for quarterly team gatherings, and key events. We have a travel policy in place (including daily meal budget) to support this.

Support: Each team member is supported with a $1,000 budget for paid professional development opportunities annually, and has access to advice from Board members.

Our team also has processes in place to support staff wellbeing and sustainability in campaigning around issues of gender-based violence - including access to vicarious trauma/self-care counselling provided by professionals through FullStop Australia.

About Fair Agenda

Fair Agenda’s staff team supports our 41,000 members to mobilise on issues of gender justice when and where it can have the most impact.

We drive strategic campaigns that keep a spotlight on problems that need solving, and build momentum behind expert-backed solutions. We do this by leveraging online, social and media campaigning tactics to pressure decision-makers to change the policies that shape our lives.

We combine the people-power of our 41,000 strong movement with that of policy experts, service providers, survivors and other advocates to win change.

So far our movement has helped win changes that benefit more than a million women, including:

Securing commitments from Education Ministers to address sexual violence in universities by mandating national oversight, monitoring, transparency and accountability. This includes creating a National Student Ombudsman.

Working with survivor advocate Evie Clayton to secure improvements to provision of forensic medical examinations in Queensland.

Securing legislative reforms to decriminalise abortion and provide for safe, legal and compassionate access to abortion care in Queensland, NSW and SA.

Working with Fair Agenda

Our organisation’s values are:

We are impact focused,

We adopt a feminist approach – that means we recognise that oppressions intersect and interact and our approach to challenging them must account for this;

We are bold and strategic, building a force to be reckoned with

We are collaborative

We value our people

We’re constantly evolving our work.

Fair Agenda’s feminism is inclusive – and we explicitly support the inclusion of trans and gender diverse people in our vision of a gender equitable future, and in our movement. We know that representation is a cornerstone of justice. We seek to build a team that draws from a range of lived experiences in challenging patriarchy and the intersecting and compounding oppressions that shape its impacts.

We expect all team members to take responsibility for co-creating a safe and equitable team environment, and we invest in training and advice from experts to ensure our board and staff team are continually improving and evolving our approach to challenging systemic oppression.

What we’re looking for

We’d love to hear from people who:

Have a passion for communications and storytelling, and attracting more people to engage with taking collective action on social justice issues,

Are excited about creating content across mediums (e.g. video and graphics)

Are able to communicate complex or sensitive issues in a clear and engaging way through social media content

Bring a dedication to fighting for justice and equality, and alignment with the values and objectives of Fair Agenda’s advocacy,

Bring an approach of care and collaboration,

Are comfortable interacting with our online community and volunteers, and supporting them to engage in campaigns,

Have an appetite for data and analysis, are able to reflect on and evaluate their own work, test theories, and evolve their approach over time,

Have a can-do attitude, and an ability to adapt to changes in the external context that impact our work.

About the role

Role responsibilities:

Contribute to, and help deliver, Fair Agenda’s member engagement strategy

Drive social media work to contribute to organisational goals, including campaign impact and member engagement

Create compelling, accessible content that turns complex and sensitive issues into engaging formats that mobilise support — without sensationalising or oversimplifying (with internal support on message development and scripting)

Drive and manage the production of content in a variety of formats (e.g. photos, graphics, videos) — including being one of the team members who appears in videos (don’t worry, we don’t expect you to be an influencer)

Manage content and organisational presence across Fair Agenda’s social media accounts (e.g. Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, BlueSky)

Manage Fair Agenda’s social media communities across platforms to drive growth in our audience, engagement with actions, and the reach of key content.

Keep on top of trends and best practice relevant to Fair Agenda’s social media strategy, and provide advice to colleagues in this area,

Manage digital advert buying for the organisation in line with our strategy,

Help deliver Fair Agenda’s communications strategy and contribute to message refinement as relevant,

Drive work to utilise additional digital engagement avenues as needed (e.g. SEO)

Work with colleagues to support the engagement of individual Fair Agenda members or volunteers, including mentoring junior colleagues to build skills,

Maintain and cultivate relationships with relevant stakeholders (including any partner organisations, members and influencers involved in content creation)

Manage and analyse data and information about members and supporters,

Other ad hoc activities as discussed with your manager

This role will report to a Campaign Manager.

Recruitment criteria

Required:

Excellent writing and communication skills, including the ability to turn complex or detailed issues into compelling content that engages people to take action—while maintaining care, accuracy, and respect.

Demonstrated ability to create quality content across multiple social media formats (e.g. image, video), with proficiency in tools such as Canva or Adobe Creative Suite.

Strong understanding of social media platforms (e.g. Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, LinkedIn), including content trends, norms, and what performs well.

Experience using social media to build engagement and grow audiences.

Ability to be self-motivated and to take ownership of areas of work within the organisation.

Ability to gather, understand and analyse data to monitor impact and engagement.

A commitment to fighting for gender equity and justice, and alignment with the values of Fair Agenda.

Additional attributes or skills considered valuable:

Familiarity with movement-based campaigning, or building trust and leadership in community,

Lived experience of gender injustice and other compounding marginalisations,

Understanding of intersectional analysis and anti-oppressive approaches,

Experience with community leadership or volunteering,

Experience working in collaboration, sharing the spotlight, or developing others,

Proven ability to cultivate relationships with collaborators,

Understanding of accessibility principles relevant to graphic and video design,

Proven ability to work appropriately and safely in collaboration with lived experience advocates,

Experience engaging, retaining or growing social media channels,

Experience managing brand and campaign risks, or

A strategic mindset (identifying problems and developing solutions; understanding of power dynamics)

Please note: Fair Agenda believes in investing in the capacity of our team; and recognises the importance of building a team with strong potential as well as experience; so we encourage those who don’t yet have every skill, or strong experience in every area to still submit an application for consideration.

Fair Agenda recognises that issues of gender injustice disproportionately affect people who are also marginalised for other reasons – including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people of colour, people from working class backgrounds, and LGBTQI+ people. We particularly encourage people who are members of these and other marginalised communities to submit an application.

To express interest

To express interest in this role, please send:

A copy of your resume or summary of relevant experience (we’re particularly interested in what outcomes you’ve contributed to in the past),

Links to two pieces of social media content you have led the development of (or screenshots),

Short responses to these questions (1 page total):

What excites you about joining the Fair Agenda team and campaigning for gender equity and justice?

Thinking about the social media content you’ve shared (at #2):

What was the objective and messaging objective for this content?

What did you consider to assess how well the content achieved your objectives? (And what were the outcomes in those areas?

What lessons did you learn? If you were to do similar work again in the future, what would you do differently? (We’re interested to understand how you reflect, evaluate and learn)

Please email those to Fair Agenda’s Executive Director Renee Carr via [email protected]. (Please note that we are not asking for a cover letter, just your responses to the three questions above).

Expressions of interest will close at midnight Wednesday 23rd July.

Next steps:

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to complete a practical task as the next step in the process. We anticipate this will be between Friday 25th July and Tuesday 29th July. This will take approximately 2 hours, and we will provide a $100 payment in recognition of your time.

The final candidates will be invited to interview. We anticipate this will be in the fortnight of the 4th of August.

We hope to be in a position to make an offer to the successful candidate by the week of 11th of August.