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Senior Account Director

Purpose of Position

• Award winning social change creative agency
• Full time roles
• Work from home options
• Bowen Hills, Brisbane and Surry Hills, Sydney based
• B Corp certified

Carbon Creative is an Australian leading social change creative agency, whose remit is to help tackle complex social and environmental issues through, innovative strategy, clever creative and impact measurement. To help make good.

As a Senior Account Director, you will have responsibility for managing significant accounts in both scope and value, working on addressing complex and sensitive communications challenges for mainstream to marginalised audiences. Always an advocate and champion of positive change for the target audience, in your capacity as a communications specialist and consultant, you will be tasked with finding strength based strategic and creative solutions for Above, Below and Through the Line campaigns. Never a lone wolf, you will work closely and collaboratively with clients together with Carbon’s highly talented and experienced accounts and creative teams to produce maximum impact.

Now in our 18^th year, Carbon’s client portfolio is proudly diverse and inclusive, bringing a highly rich and rewarding opportunity to work in mainstream and specialised communications with First Nations peoples, LGBTQIA+, culturally and linguistically diverse populations and other socially marginalised audiences.

We’re nice to work for too. We offer above market rate salaries. We work smarter not harder (burnout is not a badge of honour). We offer work from home options and flexibility with life commitments. We encourage lifelong learning with professional development at conferences and industry related events. We offer nice office digs in Brisbane and Sydney close to all the fun stuff and get competitive over trivia, karaoke and who can find the best gourmet sandwich for Friday lunch. And, we come complete with two emotional support dogs, George and Winnie, the Groodles and our furever friends.

Key Responsibilities

No two days will be the same, working on briefs of various sizes and depth, with your responsibility to work glove in hand with client and creative to find the best solution possible to the challenge at hand. Your day to day will span both the creative and administrative ends of the brief. From the hum drum to the exciting and everywhere in between this will involve all the norm – informing and shaping strategy, briefing creatives, managing and reconciling budgets, raising cost estimates, running timelines to meet timely deliveries, helping inform and guide the creative process, meeting with clients and wrangling their expectations, crafting and presenting campaign evaluation reports. Successfully contributing your bit to a growing creative portfolio and importantly, driving impact.

Qualifications and Experience

• Must be experienced 7 + years in an agency or deemed comparable equivalent
• Have a strong overall grasp of current social and environmental issues and marginalised audiences
• Be an excellent communicator with strong written and verbal skills
• Have a strong understanding of advertising, public relations and stakeholder engagement processes
• Be skilled and experienced at preparing budgets and cost estimates, writing reports and crafting presentations
• Have great time management skills, be able to work autonomously and juggle conflicting priorities
• Have an excellent eye for detail
• Be an energetic, willing, collaborative team player
• Be degree qualified in marketing and communications and/or equivalent

Personal Qualities and Behaviour Traits

• Respect and maintain confidentiality with the ability to exercise good judgement and personal and professional discretion
• Is self-motivated with the ability to work autonomously, with a can do attitude
• Have a strong social remit with a natural motivation to contribute towards positive social change
• Be a team player
• Have a sense of humour, with the ability to leave your ego at the door!

Reports to

Group Account Director

Hours

Full time

Location

Onsite plus interstate travel as required from time to time

To Apply

Please send your CV to michele@carbon-creative.com.au and put ‘Senior Account Director Wanted: <your name>’ in the subject line.

We promote an inclusive workplace for all and believe everyone should have a workplace where they can thrive. With that in mind, we would also strongly encourage people from underrepresented communities to apply.