Beanstalk AgTech Hiring for Marketing Communications Coordinator at Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Full Time

We believe our food system needs reinvention to feed a growing global population on a healthy planet. We exist to unleash the potential of agriculture to be the leading force for good! If this excites you, we would love for you to apply!

The Beanstalk Team

We are a specialised team of strategy, agriculture, and innovation experts dedicated to the agriculture sector in the Indo-Pacific. Our role is to catalyse the adoption of new technologies and build capabilities that help to unlock our ability to produce nutritious food in a responsible, ethical, and sustainable manner.

As a business, everything we do directly drives long-term community, ecological and business resiliency. This is the main event, not an afterthought. Our 5 pillars of impact are: Building enterprise resiliency; advancing circularity: Enabling a ‘nature-positive’ food system; Promoting safe and secure livelihoods; and Ensuring food and nutrition security.

About the Role

This is a unique opportunity to lead and manage Beanstalk AgTech’s digital and communication functions. After a re-brand in 2022, we are looking for a value-driven, proactive, and strong allrounder able to turn their hand to the breadth of communications, engagement, digital and design functions needed to underpin the work of Beanstalk.

This role will be instrumental in building the reputation and profile of Beanstalk as a thought leader through a creative approach to design, authentic engagement, and tribe building. Working together with one of the directors, you will actively learn through your use of a range of digital platforms and the freedom to explore your creativity with some flair.

This is a fantastic opportunity for those with a creative spirit, looking for a way to use their technical digital and communications expertise to create real and sustained change alongside a small, passionate, and driven team in the food, agricultural, and sustainability sector.

You will be working within a passionate team to deliver agrifood innovation projects across Australia and the Indo-Pacific region. Like peas in a pod, we’re a small and tight team with necessarily big ambitions to grow and fulfill our mission to create a tangible impact across the region.

In a nutshell:

When it comes to digital marketing and communications you are a jack of all trades, with the ability to switch from writing a post to editing a short video of a recent event, designing a case study overview, editing our website to bossing around our busy directors to get them to hurry up and finish writing that thought leadership piece!

·      Website: keeping it up to date and continuously improving

·      Social media: manage our LinkedIn, Facebook, and other social media pages – tailored for audiences in Australia and the broader Indo-Pacific region

·      CRM: manage and help us leverage our recently implemented CRM

·      Internal newsletter: deliver a bi-monthly update newsletter to our network of advisors

·      External newsletter: deliver a bi-monthly update newsletter to our clients, partners, followers etc.

·      Content: create engaging copy, images and video content for all of the above channels

Key responsibilities:

·      Lead, monitor, implement and evaluate communications strategies to recruit new followers and clients and retain current supporters and clients via digital campaigns, newsletters, social media, growing networks, and connections, working in collaboration with the Beanstalk BD team.

·      Monitor food, agricultural, and sustainability social and media landscapes and proactively identify opportunities to grow brand awareness/awareness of Beanstalk’s point of difference, to help us extend our impact and make a difference for the people we support.

·      Champion the brand values and ensure guidelines are maintained, contribute to strategy to leverage brand awareness (ie. merchandise, conferences), and liaise with graphics designer to continuously develop brand collateral.

·      Create and coordinate dynamic and compelling content to engage with media, clients, prospective clients, government groups, RDCs, startups and stakeholders to increase our supporter base. This will include managing the bi-monthly newsletter, press releases, talking points, web content, social media on LinkedIn and Facebook, briefs, light touch video editing etc.

·      Manage a CRM system for all BD and communication activity.

·     Grow and nurture new relationships between Beanstalk and our Senior Advisors / Consultants, the media and both prospective and existing clients across public, private, and social sectors.

·     Refresh, maintain and update the Beanstalk website and social media presence including managing new and changing content, developing lead magnets and provide continuous improvement.

·      Contribute to strategy and assist with BD activation campaigns and events, supporting the BD leads.

·      You’ll collaborate cross-functionally with various teams to think of creative, out-of-the-box ways to bring value to our business and clients.

·      You’ll work closely with the Marketing Manager to ensure a dynamic, engaging and authentic brand experience that truly reflects the spirit of our mission and retains, delights, and grows our database.

·      Work closely with external graphic designer to deliver on internal Beanstalk work.

·      This list is not exhaustive and will be reviewed regularly to meet the changing needs of a dynamic, growing organisation.

Finer details:

Location:       Based in Australia or Singapore

to:      Cal Archibald, Director (Brisbane)

Hours:           Part-time, 3 days or 24 hours per week

Salary:           AUD $70k-$80k pro rata, depending on experience

About You

·      What drives you: You love working across a high performing team, are super driven, and have a laugh along the way. You are also personally invested in and committed to your teams’ personal and professional growth by encouraging constructive feedback and lending a helping hand. You have an insatiable thirst to learn and don’t just accept things at face-value.

·      Your professional profile: Tertiary qualifications or equivalent experience in communications, journalism, media, public relations, fundraising, marketing, humanities, social policy, or related fields.

·      Words, numbers, and people: You have exceptional written and verbal communication skills, capacity to manage complexity and attention to detail, as well as the ability to generate new ideas, solve problems and work autonomously on an agreed agenda within timeframes and budget.

·      Communications platforms: You have experience in managing emerging communications and learning platforms, systems and channels for professional content and engagement.

·      Agriculture, food and sustainability: Whilst it is not a requirement that you have a deep understanding of the food and agricultural landscape, the opportunity to work and learn in this fast moving and impactful sector should get you excited.

·      Areas you want to develop: You are self-motivated and want the opportunity to flourish in a role – to grow and make it your own. It is important to us that you are eager to grow with us, into progressively senior roles within our organisation. We have experienced consultants from organisations like McKinsey & Co and Boston Consulting Group to continue to support you on your learning journey.

Beanstalk Perks and Benefits

·      Everyone is becoming an owner. In addition to your base salary, Beanstalk is in the process of structuring the company so that everyone owns equity as we grow globally.

·      Flexible working hours. We support our people to deliver on both their business and personal responsibilities and most importantly treasure the health and safety of our people.

·      Radical transparency. We are building towards a culture of active transparency empowering everyone to contribute to building all facets of Beanstalk.

·      Unlimited Paid Personal Leave. At Beanstalk we recognise that sometimes you need time off to recuperate, look after your mental health, meet the plumber, or pick up a child from school. We put this in place to empower you to bring your best self to work every single day.

·      Global presence. Our projects and team extend across the Indo-Pacific, everyone in the Bean Team is encouraged to lead, support and be on ground in the region as required.

Our values underpin who we are & how we work

People are good​: We believe in human decency ​and we act with integrity, honesty and humility.

Impact-driven​: Everything we do directly drives long-term community, ecological and business resiliency through our work. This is the main event not an afterthought

Extended family​: We believe in magnetic communities which means we build our own family, the Beanstalk family, and ​our tribe within the ecosystem.

Ask why​: We are deeply curious about the world around us so we are constantly learning and improving through challenging and questioning.

Have a little fun: We don’t take ourselves too seriously. We are passionate about solving big challenges, but we spend too much of our lives building Beanstalk for it not to be fun!​

Build something special​: We back ourselves to be bold and ​build something that is unique and special that wouldn’t exist without us. This is our legacy which will continue our impact.​

Diversity is strength​: Diversity of backgrounds, skills, geographies, and perspectives is ​our superpower. All are welcome.

This is a great opportunity for a driven professional that is looking for an opportunity to work for a forward-thinking business that has an amazing culture built through its people.

Questions and Application Process

If you have any questions, please reach out via email to apply, please email with your CV and cover letter explaining why you are excited to be our new marketing unicorn ninja and why it should be you!

To: Cal@beanstalkagtech.com

Cc: Mariel@beanstalkagtech.com