Marketing Specialist

Job No: CN2185

Location: Newcastle, NSW

Employment Status: Permanent, Full-time

No. of Vacancies: 1

Closing Date: 8 Feb 2020 AEST

• Drive marketing campaigns and brand awareness.
• Creative strategist that can curate content to grow customer engagement.
• Permanent Full time – 35 hours per week.
• Flexible working with optional 9-day fortnight.

Located 160km north of Sydney, Newcastle is New South Wales’ second largest city, and offers the perfect lifestyle and career environment.

Our City is thriving and rapidly transforming. In recent years Newcastle has experienced a significant increase in development activity, with the 2017-18 Financial Year seeing building approvals top $1.2 billion.

Having just relocated to our exciting new work premises at 12 Stewart Avenue, our new environment creates a great opportunity to further align our people with our organisational vision, values and strategic directions, and leverage the great work CN is already undertaking to support cultural improvement.

City of Newcastle (CN) is looking for an experienced and creative Marketing Specialist to join our dynamic Major Events & Corporate Affairs team.

Reporting into the Marketing Manager this position will develop, organise and assist in the implementation of marketing plans for a diverse range of facilities and services including; Newcastle Museum, Civic Theatre, Newcastle Art Gallery, Fort Scratchley Libraries and Learning, as well as CN’s Major Events program and services such as Newcastle Venues and Customer Service.

This role champions CN’s new corporate brand strategy and will work with a broad range of stakeholders across facilities and services to continue implementation of the new brand.

The successful person will also develop and produce content for digital communications supporting CN’s strategic digital marking goals.

To be successful in this job you will have:

Essential

• Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Business or related qualification and/or demonstrated capability through past employment experience.
• Proven ability at implementing appropriate digital media initiatives and promotional campaigns.
• Demonstrated marketing experience to build brand awareness, drive campaigns and convert communication deliverables into measured outcomes.
• Strong administrative skills including budgeting experience.
• Advanced engagement skills including ability to liaise and negotiate with internal and external stakeholders, i.e. government agencies, suppliers, customers, community groups and staff.
• Be willing and able to work in a dynamic and fluid environment with the flexibility to work outside regular business hours during the evening and on weekends.

Desirable

• Demonstrated experience in a marketing position involving multiple stakeholders.
• Experience implementing successful audience development programs within Government, not for profit or service industries.
• Enthusiasm and initiative to identify and opportunity and then see it through to completion.
• Current C Class drivers’ licence.

Sound like the perfect job for you? Apply Now!

City of Newcastle proudly promotes the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity and fosters a culture of diversity to represent the community of our Local Government Area.

All candidates will be assessed against the selection criteria outlined in the position description. Suitable candidates may be placed on an eligibility list for future identical positions for a period of 12 months.

You must have the right to live and work in Australia to apply for this job.

To view the full position description please click here.

Application Closing Date: Friday, 7 February 2020.

Remuneration: $86,678 + 9.5% Superannuation per annum for a 35 hour week.

Contact: Therese Ferry, Marketing Manager. 02 4974 2023.