Marketing Specialist

Posted: 13/06/2025

Closing Date: 13/07/2025

Job Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Macquarie

Job Category: Marketing & Communications

**Our Purpose and Ambition**

NextSense is a not-for-profit organisation supporting people with vision or hearing loss across Australia. We work with children, adults, and their families, providing a holistic approach to hearing services for newborns through to people over 90 years old, and helping children who are blind or have low vision to develop the right skills, mobility, and independence to confidently explore their world.

NextSense has been breaking boundaries since 1860, and we’ve been expanding our services ever since. Today, we deliver world-class education (both to children with sensory loss and to professionals in the field), cochlear implants, allied health services, therapy, research, and clinical services to children and adults. We’re a registered NDIS provider, working with our clients to achieve their own goals and potential.

We’re committed to research and innovation; harnessing the latest technologies and new ways of thinking and educating the next generation to lead the way in hearing and vision services.

We are currently creating a world-leading centre for innovation on-site at Macquarie University that represents a new era for hearing and vision loss. This nationally significant social infrastructure project will be a place to nurture, trial and share new ideas and form new partnerships that will drive better outcomes for people who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind or have low vision.

**The Role**

NextSense has an exciting opportunity for a Marketing Specialist to join our team based on campus, in a brand new building, at Macquarie University. The Marketing Specialist calls for an organised, detail focused professional who can confidently deliver end to end projects both independently and as part of the marketing and communications team.

The role requires a proactive marketer, with the confidence and ability to develop and implement effective marketing activities and work with key internal and external stakeholders across the varied services of NextSense. These may include colleagues, clinical service partners, referral networks, clients, and families.

Reporting directly to the Marketing Manager, we're offering this role on a permanent full-time basis, 38 hours per week, Monday to Friday. You'll work primarily on-site, ensuring close collaboration with colleagues and full integration into our workplace culture to support our services. While the position requires a regular presence in the office, we offer flexibility around on-site hours and occasional remote work, depending on team needs and individual circumstances.

**About you**:

- Experience in marketing planning and scheduling
- Creative briefing, design and print production delivery
- Social media and digital marketing campaign development including fundraising EDM campaigns, delivery and analysis.
- Input into website and social media content development and management
- Responsibility for digital content package creation owning particular streams of services content
- A strong digital competency to develop, implement and evaluate campaigns to deliver business initiatives
- Copywriting and editing (including writing for brochures, publications, the web, social media channels, e-communications)
- End to end management of services events across the organisation as required.

**What we can offer you**
- Competitive remuneration
- 100% salary packaging allowing you to increase your take home pay
- Extensive personal/carer’s leave
- 2 weeks paid leave over Christmas in addition to 4 weeks annual leave
- Paid parental leave of 14 weeks for primary carers and 6 weeks for secondary carers
- Access to industry leading education and professional development
- Collaborative work environment
- Wellbeing program including Employee Assistance Program

**Desired Skills and Experience**:
To be successful in this role you'll need to demonstrate you meet the following selection criteria.
- Undergraduate and/or tertiary qualifications in Marketing, Communications, or a related discipline
- Four years’ experience in a similar role
- Track record implementing successful marketing strategies to drive acquisition, retention, and awareness
- Demonstrated experience using and optimising digital channels and backend platforms, such as Mailchimp, Craft, Monday,com and Fundraisin.
- Proficient in briefing and managing graphic designers/creative agencies
- Demonstrated experience in project and events management, and the ability to work in a high-volume, high-output team environment
- Confident to work autonomously and as part of a collaborative team
- Proven track record working effectively across cross functional teams and influencing stakeholders at various levels of the organisation
- A verified NSW Working With Children Check and criminal record check
- A passion, patience, and responsiveness are essenti