Eea Student Recruitment Lead

The Essendon Football Club is looking for a highly motivated individual with forward-thinking sales and marketing skills to join our Essendon Education Academy Program team at the Hangar.

**About us**

Essendon FC - “The Bombers” - are a professional sporting team in the Australian Football League. As home to 5 sporting teams, we run our AFL men’s and women’s programs, VFL women’s and men’s programs, and a wheelchair football team. But we’re more than the game. Not only do we exist to win premierships, we aim to give back to our loyal membership base, and importantly, our community. We understand and take seriously the impact we have on social outcomes and work tirelessly to ensure these are positive, from our partnership with The Long Walk, to our indigenous pathway programs. To do this, we have strong commercial partnerships and innovate with non-traditional ventures, such as our Essendon Education Academy and EFC Investment Fund, so that we can deliver world class events, give back to our fans, run community programs and ultimately, strive toward our next premiership.

**About the role**

Reporting to the Essendon Education Academy Manager, the EEA Student Recruitment Lead will be responsible for leading and growing the Essendon Education Academy’s student intake through the development and delivery of a sales and marketing strategy, with a key focus on optimising the EEA’s brand and proposition to create an engaging prospect journey and attractive career pathway opportunity.

Working closely with our program partner, RMIT, and their student recruitment team, our EEA Student Recruitment Lead will establish a clear timeline of recruitment opportunities and operationalise this in conjunction with EFC’s Marketing, Consumer & Digital team, as well as a school-based career practitioner network.

Ultimately the partnership objective between Essendon Football Club and RMIT is to deliver the most relevant and respected education curriculum in the Australian sports industry. Success in achieving this is hinged on multiple areas but none more so than generating and nurturing healthy student pipelines and delivering a premium student experience.

**About you**

You will be an enthusiastic individual who possesses strong networking and communication skills. Having a proven sales record, you will be a driven self-starter who thrives off building strong relationships with key program staff and external stakeholders. With proven experience in developing and delivering sales and marketing campaigns, you will be confident using digital and social media channels and have the ability to meet sales targets.***

**The Perks**
- ** Our work doesn’t always fit the 9 to 5.** Your life doesn’t always fit the hours around it. We offer flexibility with hybrid office / home working arrangements and hours.
- **More annual leave? **Sure EFC People* will be gifted additional leave per year taken to coincide with Footy Department mini breaks or at the discretion of the CEO. EFC People may also choose to purchase up to 10 days per annum additional leave during the year for extra time off*.
- ** Parent friendly - **We put family at the centre of our work. We know they are the centre of yours. We offer paid parental leave to both the primary and secondary carer of a biological or adopted child*.
- Access to **our Wellbeing Partner - Converge **which supports a Healthy Mind, Healthy Body and Healthy Workplace.
- ** Continuous professional development**:

- to compete at our best we have to keep learning. It’s an expectation and a commitment we make to everyone at EFC. All EFC people will have access to the Essendon Leadership Academy which consists of formal learning, coaching and mentoring, to support you in achieving your career goals.
- ** But wait there’s more - **You will have access to great benefits and discounts through our Commercial Partners. Along with two x Flexi Home & Away memberships* giving you access to our Home & Away games at Marvel Stadium and the MCG. Free onsite parking at our premium workspace, The Hangar, and more.

**Please keep reading...**

We pride ourselves on creating an environment of shared spirit of passion, innovation, and inclusivity. As an Equal Opportunity employer, we firmly believe that diversity and inclusion is an important part of how we do business. We are united in upholding our Club-wide values and are consistently setting the benchmark both on and off the field as we strive to win our next premiership. And we wouldn’t be an elite footy club if we didn’t celebrate. All of our wins matter, on and off the field, we love to reward and recognise our people from monthly barbecues to tickets to the Crichton Medal and Brownlow.

**To Apply**

With our commitment to promoting and protecting the safety and wellbeing of children and young people in our care, we undertake several screening processes to ensure this commitment is upheld. This includes ensuring all of our peo