Senior Marketing & Communications Coordinator

Position: Senior Marketing & Communications Coordinator
Salary:133,481- $150,233 pending experience
Tenure: Full time, Permanent 
Commencing Date: 30 June 2025
Closing Date: Monday 26 May 2025

Townsville Catholic Education supports a diverse region extending from Townsville to the Burdekin and Whitsunday regions in the South, North to Ingham and Halifax, South-West to Winton, and West to the border with the Northern Territory, encompassing Mount Isa and several small, isolated western towns and east to Palm Island.

Townsville Catholic Education provides a supportive, flexible working environment where care for the individual is an important part of our ethos.  We employ motivated people who want to work together to produce excellent outcomes for our students. Our staff are recognised as being central to achieving our mission. 

About the role

Townsville Catholic Education is currently seeking an experienced Senior Marketing and Communications Coordinator.  This is a Full time, permanent position commencing Monday 30 June 2025.

As part of Townsville Catholic Educations' Marketing and Communication team, the Senior Marketing and Communications Coordinator provides strategic advice to school and key stakeholders on brand, marketing, and communications initiatives. This role involves coordinating the execution and refinement of campaigns, working closely with Principals, school leaders, and the Catholic Diocese of Townsville to ensure alignment with system goals and local contexts. 

Key Accountabilities include

The role of the Senior Marketing and Communication Coordinator is to:

• Provide advice and manage the development brand, marketing and communications strategies.
• Liaise proactively with key stakeholders to understand school needs and inform the development of marketing plans – ensuring alignment strategic pillars and the Catholic ethos. 
• Collaborate proactively with key stakeholders to inform development of brand, marketing and communication strategies.
• Lead the provision of creative and operational support to schools to execute marketing plans and communications on both a proactive and ad-hoc basis. Support will encompass the areas of brand development, graphic design, multimedia, copywriting and other content creation and will involve managing external vendors. 
• Lead and manage communication projects and activities, including the development of formal project plans, budgets, supporting documents, evaluating metrics, records and registers. 
• Manage and maintains effective key stakeholder relationships, including with key media, agencies and suppliers to build brand awareness and create media opportunities.
• Maintain current and relevant knowledge on best practice and regulatory requirements for electronic and non-electronic marketing, privacy, copyright, protocol and consent as they relate to Marketing, and acts as a conduit between TCE and the DOT and other relevant bodies (e.g. Qld Catholic Education Commission) in these matters. 
• Manage Marketing and Communication capacity building initiatives and provide advice and mentoring to school staff regarding the continuous development of professional skills.
• Proactively identify risks to school market share and reputation, and coordinate stakeholder engagement to inform an appropriate market led response to guide schools in mitigating critical risks.
• Provide leadership within the team to identify potential media and other public relations support for TCE and its schools and provides operational support to organisational  response to these opportunities.
• Provide leadership within the Marketing and Communications team to ensure the planning of major events and their promotional campaigns (e.g., Catholic Education Week), are delivered on-time and on-budget. 
• Lead the Marketing and Communications team on providing expert advice to the execution of school brand and campaign planning requirements
• Provide mentoring support and guidance for Marketing and Communications team members. 
• Provides mentoring and skill development of school-based marketing contacts

About you

• Considerable experience in an advisory position with a whole-of enterprise remit in a complex organisation. 
• Experience in preparing marketing plans, including budget provision, timelines, risk and stakeholder management, to achieve objectives such and enrolment increase and reputation management. 
• Experience in coaching and mentoring school staff to implement Marketing and Communication activities. 
• Experience in media management, social media management, video production, photography and digital media tracking systems. 
• Demonstrated experience in marketing, brand management and advertising including knowledge of graphic design, printing processes and resources involved.
• Demonstrated experience working on planning/steering committees. 
• Demonstrated working understanding of the Australian P-12 education market, particularly in the North Queensland region, and the role of the Catholic Education sector in this market. 
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate a combination of internal and external resources to deliver marketing support to clients and stakeholders. 
• Demonstrated ability to manage projects and campaigns on-time and on-budget. 
• Strong copywriting and multimedia content development skills, and an ability to provide effective guidance to third party content providers.
• Demonstrated customer-centric approach to service delivery, including an ability to tailor plans to clients’ specific context and challenges. Skills 
• Outstanding interpersonal skills, including an ability to build and maintain productive relationships with a broad stakeholder group.
• Demonstrated conflict resolution skills.
• High attention to detail with an ability to balance competing deadlines and manage multiple tasks.
• Resilience in managing stress situations.
• Ability to work with colleagues in a professional, informed, flexible and caring manner. 
• Well-developed capacity for creative and strategic thinking in the areas of problem-solving and future directions. 

Please see the position description for more information. 

Mandatory Criteria

• Current Working with Children Suitability Card - The successful candidate will require a paid Blue Card before commencement as per the No Card, No Start policy developed by Queensland Government
•  Relevant Tertiary Qualification – i.e. Business, Commerce, Marketing, Public Relations, Communications or similar 
• Current Driver’s Licence
• Ability to travel from time to time within the Catholic Diocese of Townsville
•  Ability to perform the physical requirements of the role in a safe manner Some employees may be subject to pre-employment medical assessments during the selection process. Depending on the nature of the position, it may be necessary for successful applicants to be immunised against certain preventable diseases in order to minimise the risk of transmission. 

What we offer

• Competitive Salary 
• 4 weeks Annual Leave with 17.5% leave loading on 4 weeks
• Salary packaging options 
• Modern facilities, equipment and resources
• Superannuation up to 12.75% employer contribution (in a co-contribution arrangement)
• Access to long service leave after 7 years of continuous service
• 14 Weeks’ paid parental leave
• Deferred Salary Scheme
• Corporate health insurance 
• Induction, professional development and learning opportunities
• Wellbeing programs and initiatives

How to apply

1. Please complete the application form below
2. Upload a current resume 
3. Upload a cover letter to support your application.

Application close: 3:00pm Monday, 26 May 2025 unless filled prior

Applications during the shortlisting phase will be kept confidential.

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