▷ High Salary: Communications Manager, Equality Insights

Communications Manager, Equality Insights

International Women’s Development Agency

Employment Type Full time

Location Hybrid ·Melbourne, Australia Melbourne CBD (hybrid work from home and two days in the office)

Team Equality Insights

Seniority Mid-level

Job Description

Full time, permanent position

Based in Melbourne CBD (hybrid working model)

Unique opportunity to lead strategic communications for a globally recognised gender data initiative, shaping how inequality and poverty are understood and addressed

International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA) is an Australian-based organisation, resourcing diverse women’s rights organisations (WROs) primarily in the Asia and the Pacific, and contributing to global feminist movements to advance our vision of gender equality for all.

VISION Gender equality for all

PURPOSE To defend and advance the rights of diverse women and girls

Within the ecosystem of women’s rights organisations, IWDA is both for and feminist movements. We resource the work of diverse WROs, and enable them to be more effective by providing support that goes beyond money. We are committed to building a resilient and relevant feminist and decolonial organisation, and to becoming an explicitly anti-racist organisation.

Anchored by lessons from our 40-year history and guided by fiercely held feminist and decolonial values, our new Strategic Plan 2025 - 2035 lays out IWDA’s path towards realising our vision of gender equality for all.

OUR GOALS 2025-2035

- Shift resources to women’s rights and aligned organisations
- Engage in movement strengthening
- Advance feminist and decolonial knowledge for change
- Live our values by modelling a different way of being as a feminist organisation

Our 4S Framework supports our commitment to decoloniality so that we know when to:

- STEP UP and use our power to leverage resources and access for women’s rights organisations, and make our own contribution to feminist movements.
- STAND WITH feminist movements in solidarity and amplify the work of Majority World actors.
- STEP BACK when others are better placed to take the lead.
- SIT WITH uncertainty, embrace communal learning and deep listening, and accept that time is needed to collectively discern the best course of action.

IWDA’s 10-year Strategy commits to expanding our work in Australia, deepening engagement with domestic feminist movements, and responding to urgent calls for feminist climate justice. We recognise our responsibility to act on issues where our locational power can make a difference – including the climate crisis. Environmental justice and gender equality are inextricably linked – and both are undermined by the same patriarchal, colonial and capitalist systems that exploit the earth and marginalise women, girls and gender‑diverse people. Feminist movement actors, including Women’s Rights Organisations (WROs) we partner with in Asia and the Pacific, are calling on Minority World actors to step up, advocate, and take responsibility for the disproportionate damage caused by high‑emission countries.

For IWDA, responding to these calls is part of decolonising our practice. Through our 10-year strategy, we commit to leveraging our platforms, networks and analysis to champion feminist climate justice in Australia, centring First Nations leadership and deepening solidarity with aligned movements to disrupt the systems that undermine our collective rights.

Equality Insights is a flagship program of IWDA that aims to redefine how poverty is understood and measured in order to inspire change. Equality Insights deploys a gender‑sensitive, individual-level survey that asks questions about many aspects of life to better understand how poverty is experienced by men and women. The result is an evidence base (of otherwise invisible) insights to inspire targeted and transformative change.

The Communications Manager, Equality Insights is responsible for leading research communications for IWDA’s flagship program Equality Insights and driving uptake of Equality Insight’s knowledge products. The role involves working with the Equality Insights team to conceptualise and deliver on our vision for strategic communications.

This will include development of engaging, public facing messaging on the goals and mission of the Equality Insights program and building brand recognition and awareness in the development data and gender spaces through content creation (blogs, newsletter) events, and campaigns.

Beyond the communications needs of the Equality Insights Program the role will have key responsibilities in delivering communications objectives for the iCount Coalition and inclusive data at the Women Deliver Conference 2026 to be held in Narrm in April 2026.

This role sits within the Equality Insights team but will maintain strong working relationships and links with the broader IWDA communications team. Where workloads and priorities allow this role will support communications of IWDA’s knowledge products and influencing priorities in other key areas.

This role is closing on Sunday 9 November at 11:55 pm.

THE OFFER

This is a full time, permanent position. Classified at SCHADS 5 plus superannuation and salary packaging.

Some of the benefits:

- Salary packaging options
- Employee Assistance program
- Additional end of year leave for all and additional paid personal/carer’s and parental leave
- Shorter hours working

HOW TO APPLY

International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA) has an Equal Opportunity exemption (H69/2022) and requests applications from women only (including cis or trans).

All applicants must be legally entitled to live and work in Australia.

If you are looking for an opportunity to make a key contribution to a rights‑based international development agency committed to gender equality for all, click apply and submit your application.

IWDA is committed to the wellbeing and safety of our staff. IWDA works through a hybrid approach supporting all team members to work flexibly, fully equipped from home as well as from our office in Melbourne. The candidate will be expected to work from our physical office space at least two days a week.

The safety and wellbeing of children and other vulnerable persons engaged in IWDA’s programs is also a priority for IWDA. We have strong recruitment processes in place to ensure the safest and most suitable people are employed by our organisation.

IWDA welcomes people with different skills and life experiences, and encourages women from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, women with disabilities and First Nations women to apply. Preference will be given to applicants who have experience in, or strong community ties to, one of the countries in which IWDA supports partners.

Any offer of employment will require a National Police Check and endorsement of IWDA’s Safeguarding Code of Conduct.

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