Application details

▪ Part-time: 2-4 Days Per Week. Flexible for the right candidate
▪ $30.21 – $33.98 an hour, depending on experience.
▪ Melbourne – Preston
▪ Applications Close: 27 April 2025

Position

We are looking for a Digital Content Creator focused on social media. This person could be you!

You have just completed a Marketing or Communications degree or have relevant work experience in the field, including social media and content creation. You are creative and enthusiastic, enjoy developing ideas into engaging and innovative outcomes, and value authentic connection with an audience.

Essential

• You love fresh fruit and veggies and consider yourself an enthusiastic foodie.
• Adept at navigating and creating content for Instagram and Facebook.
• You’re handy with a camera or phone and able to turn ideas into engaging content.
• Solid copywriting skills with the ability to make a caption or a paragraph highly readable.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively.
• You have excellent attention to detail.

Desirable

• Experience managing social media communities.
• Experience editing digital and web content (Adobe, Canva, WordPress, Elementor ideal) and troubleshooting when required.

Personal

• A genuine interest in CERES Fair Food areas of impact: supporting farmers, healthy ecosystems, resilient communities, regenerative food systems and local wellbeing economies.
• A creative thinker and efficient, enthusiastic, friendly doer.
• Able to work autonomously and manage workload priorities.
• Understands the importance of accessibility and inclusion when talking to a broad audience.
  Qualifications
• Recently completed a Marketing or Communications degree, or
• Relevant work experience in the field, including social media and content creation.

CERES is no ordinary not-for-profit

CERES EARTH is a registered charity with the principal purpose of protecting and enhancing the natural environment. Starting as a rubbish tip, CERES has grown into a thriving green hub: a model for urban farms around Australia, a living education centre for environmental best practice, and an incubator for better business and ideas that might just change the world.

More than half a million people visit the site each year, and its social enterprises – which include cafes, market gardens, an organic grocery and bakery, sustainable timber, home delivered groceries (CERES Fair Food), a retail nursery, workshops, school education and regular events and festivals – reach many more.

Where you come in

As the Digital Content Creator you’ll work with the Marketing Manager to create content (organic and paid) across our social platforms to help drive business outcomes for CFF.

Key areas of accountability

1. Create authentic and engaging social content to drive brand awareness, website track and engagement:

• Manage and maintain CFF social channels (mostly Meta).
• Create quality content for our audience (photos, videos, explainers, stories, reels, carousels) approximately 3 to 4 posts per week.
• Focus on local, organic fruit veg including growers and makers.
• Focus on sustainability including low waste and returnable, reusable packaging.
• Focus on food and cooking tips including recipes and content from our existing database.
• Identify trends or opportunities on socials, reach out to influencers.
• Connect with the wider CERES team to share and execute ideas.

2. Develop and implement advertising campaigns on socials:

• Develop new campaigns working closely from a brief with the
  Marketing Manager.

3. Support creative and copywriting needs for BAU marketing activities.

• Work with the Fair Food teams to support marketing campaigns and assets where necessary.

Health, safety, security and risk management

• Be a role model for safety and security including complying with all safety instructions and training given at the workplace.
• Act in a safe manner at all times and participate with keeping all employees, contractors and volunteers safe whilst on and o the premises.
• Report all incidents, potential hazards and injuries in a timely manner.
• Be aware of the risks associated with your team’s every day work and ensure appropriate mitigation measures are applied.

Does this sound like you?

We’d love to hear from you! Please submit a cover letter, a resume with a phone number, and three examples of some of your most engaging posts (photos / videos) on social media (Fb / Insta). Please include these as one document.

Please see the full Position Description below.

Working at CERES and CERES FAIR FOOD is more than just a job

It’s the feeling of knowing that your work is contributing to making the world a better place and working with others who feel the same.
In addition to a connection to social causes you will have access to:
● Agile working environment including working from home
● Collaborative, values-centred and highly supportive team environment
● Access to all CERES’ unique environments including the park with strong links to the environment and community
● Generous staff discounts across many CERES enterprises and products including educational programs and café purchases at Merri Café.

At CERES we seek a workforce that is as diverse as our society – in ethnicity, gender, age, sexuality, disability, culture and beliefs – and reflects the communities we work in. We believe diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our culture and core values and we demonstrate this commitment through all our employment practices. Our inclusive workplace culture contributes to making CERES a great place to work. We actively encourage people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds, people from CALD backgrounds, LGBTIQA+ people, people with a disability and others to apply.

CERES Child Safe standards

● In line with the Child Wellbeing and Safety Amendment (Child Safety Standards) Act 2015, CERES is committed to upholding the Victorian Child Safe Standards, to the best of its abilities and resources.
● CERES Upholds itself as an organisation committed to the right to survival, protection, development, participation and empowerment of all children and young people.
● Is committed to the cultural safety of Aboriginal children, young people and children and young people from culturally diverse and/or linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds and to providing a safe environment for children and young people with a disability.