We are hiring: Digital Campaigner

12 May 2025

WA Forest Alliance (WAFA) is seeking a Digital Campaigner to join our team. Ideally, the position is 0.8FTE but we are open to considering options with the right candidate(s).

WAFA is a small but highly effective organisation made up of passionate, hard-working and dynamic people who care deeply about the protection of Southwest native forests.

$77,333 – $84,463 per annum (pro rata) plus super

Applications close: 9:00 AM AWST, 26th May 2025

To apply please provide a CV and cover letter that addresses the selection criteria.

Please address applications and queries to Jess Boyce, Director – forests@wafa.org.au

Responsibility

The Digital Campaigner will work collaboratively with the Director and WAFA staff team, but have these specific responsibilities

Generate, post and maintain content and engagement on social media, including videos and simple graphics
Communicate and engage supporters via digital communications platforms
Manage the supporter database
Produce a monthly e-newsletter
Maintain WAFA’s websites, publish blogs and ensure content is up to date
Manage advertising traditional and social media advertising
Utilise analytical tools to measure, evaluate and report performance of digital platforms
Capture high-quality photo and video content of major events and activities, and maintain a library of content
Develop and maintain a consistent approach to language and branding for use across communications, and assist the team with copy-editing
Keep up to date with new and emerging platforms, tools and trends which may help improve WAFA’s digital presence.
Ensure that activities are managed within budget

Essential criteria

Excellent written and oral communication skills
Proficiency in social media
Efficiency and the ability to shift between tasks
Capacity to work independently and collaboratively
Photography and film experience – ideally with skills in telling a campaign’s story through the framing and selection of images and video content.
Experiencing using design programs such as Canva
Proficiency in CRM systems such as Action Network or similar
Proficiency in website management on WordPress or similar

Desirable criteria

Experience working in the community and/or environment sector
Experience in producing content for and engaging traditional media
Knowledge of Zapier or similar platforms

Conditions

Located in Boorloo/Perth or in the Southwest. The Digital Campaigner may work from WAFA’s West Perth or Denmark offices or from home, using a provided computer and their own mobile phone.
Expected to travel to different locations across Perth and the Southwest as required.
$77,333 – $84,463 per annum (pro rata) plus super
0.8FTE but we are open to considering options with the right candidate(s).
6 weeks (pro rata) annual leave per annum
Reimbursed for all reasonable expenses, including but not limited to any travel and accommodation expenses
Initial 12-month contract with a 4-month probation period

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Protect the tingles from prescribed burning, for good

Tingles are a large, ancient tree species that are only found in a small area in WA’s Southwest, close to Walpole. They can live for more than 400 years, reach heights over 55 metres and have the largest base of any eucalypt, and provide critical habitat to many threatened plants and animals. They are vulnerable to frequent fire.

In December 2024, Giants East, a tingle forest block in the famed Valley of the Giants, was torched as part of the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA)’s prescribed burning program.

More than 100 giant trees collapsed in the intense burn, with flames reaching the tops of many trees in one of the worst outcomes seen by WA’s prescribed burning program.

After persistent community action, three tingle-karri blocks, Nornalup, Coalmine and Mount Clare received a reprieve at the end of 2025 and were removed from the burn plan until July 2026.

But these blocks, and other tingle forests, aren’t safe forever. They could be on the burn plan for 2026-27. There must be a commitment from the WA Government to permanently protect tingles from prescribed burning and revise how fire is managed in these areas.

Over time, tingle forests self-thin and become naturally less flammable. Left unburnt, they are less of a fire risk than forests burnt in the last 30 years.

In a drying climate that is increasingly prone to bushfires, it’s important to be bushfire ready, but prescribed burning shouldn’t be the only tool in our bushfire prevention kit. It is vital that the Southwest’s prescribed burning practices reflect current science and a changed climate, and funding is directed towards rapid detection and suppression of bushfires.

Smoking collapsed Tingle after the giants east burn

It is of the highest priority that the tingles are protected from fire not just in this burn plan, but for good.

Please contact the Premier and relevant Ministers using our template to urge them to permanently protect tingle forests from prescribed burning. Enter your details to start writing your email.

Read more about the Giants East burn or about rapid suppression technology.