Marketing and Communications Officer

Location: Melbourne | CBD

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Museum Victoria

**Salary**: $74,580 - $82,571

Occupation: Communications, Marketing and Media

Reference: VG/MV/9722

Australia's largest public museum organisation is seeking an enthusiastic and passionate communications professional to join the Venue & Events team in this newly created role.

**MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER - VENUE AND EVENTS**
- Work for one of Melbourne's iconic cultural brands in an exciting new role
- Full time contract
- Salary $74,580 (base of grade) + 11% Super

Australia's largest public museum organisation is seeking an enthusiastic and passionate communications professional to join the Venue & Events team in this newly created role.

**ABOUT MUSEUMS VICTORIA**:
Museums Victoria cares for the State scientific and cultural collections, providing visitor access, activities and events at five distinct venues: Melbourne Museum, Immigration Museum, Scienceworks, IMAX and world heritage listed Royal Exhibition Building.

To learn more about Museums Victoria, please visit About us - Museums Victoria

**ABOUT THE POSITION**:
Museums Victoria is looking for a motivated communications professional to develop and execute dynamic marketing and communications activities for the Museums Victoria Venue & Events department.

Working in a fast-paced environment you will implement engaging, targeted and cost-effective marketing initiatives to generate awareness for Museums Victoria B2C and B2B events and activations, leveraging key dates and exhibition opportunities. This includes the positioning of all Museums Victoria event venues (including the World Heritage-listed Royal Exhibition Building) as sought-after event destinations.

Helping to drive ROI, the successful applicant will:

- Developing and executing innovative and cost-effective activities through a dynamic calendar of events that reaches and builds both B2B and B2C audiences.
- Lead communications across a variety of channels including web, print, social media, brought media and more
- Content creation and direction for digital and print media
- Create unique PR opportunities and activations for consumer events
- Asset creation and management and more

**NOTABLE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE**:
We are seeking an organised, deadline-driven applicant with proven ability working in a fast-moving communications and events setting. The successful applicant will have:

- Demonstrated experience in successfully implementing commercial B2B and/or B2C marketing and communications campaigns
- Strong understanding of the events, visitor attraction or arts and cultural industries.
- Superior written and visual communication skills
- Proven ability to generate positive PR coverage
- Strong experience in managing events and suppliers, including developing design briefs and managing creative outputs in an environment with competing deadlines
- Excellent organisational and time management skills
- Delivery of campaigns on budget and an understanding of the fundamentals of ROI on decision making

Please see the attached position description for the full selection criteria.

**OTHER INFORMATION**:
This is a full-time, ongoing position. The salary on offer is $74,580 (pro rata) + 11% superannuation.

**HOW TO APPLY?**

To view the position description, visit Careers - Museums Victoria; for more information about this position, please contact please contact Museums Victoria Senior Manager, Commercial Marketing & Communications Meg Bell on 0407 872 658.

To apply, please send your Covering Letter, Resume, a statement addressing each of the Key Selection Criteria by visiting Careers - Museums Victoria

**APPLICATIONS CLOSE**

Monday June 3 at 11.59pm