Help connect and catalyse the extraordinary entrepreneurial community of Bondi region
Location:
Applicants should live or work in Bondi Beach or be part of the community.
Scope:
Estimated initially 4-8 hours per week to suit candidate’s schedule.
Role:
Bondi Innovation’s vision is to make Bondi a global innovation hub, building a world-class hyperlocal community for collaboration, well-being, growth and positive impact.
For background see our website.
To help support the potential of innovation in Bondi we are looking for a talented and enthusiastic events/community manager. There is the potential for more work for the right person on other projects.
Depending on experience and skill sets, responsibilities may include:
- Organise and coordinate regular community and larger innovation events
- Uncover and connect the most inspiring people in the local community
- Help run our social media presence across channels
- Build membership for our Premium member program, including through partner offers
- Set and manage efficient processes to enable the community
- Create or supervise production of quality relevant content
- Drive and supervise initiatives such as mentor programs, interest groups etc.
- Potentially, partner and sponsor outreach
- Potentially, government liaison and submitting grants
Capabilities:
We are ideally looking for someone who has many of the following attributes:
- Embedded in the Bondi region creative and innovation communities, and extremely excited about the potential of Bondi region as an innovation hub
- Substantial exposure to innovation, startups, technology and/or creative industries, connected into the broader Sydney startup community
- Solid experience in organising successful events, preferably in startups/tech/creative
- Experience in a community management role
- A social media native experienced in running social media accounts
- Strong content creation skills
Pay:
Hourly pay – limited initially but can increase as we build a sustainable business model. Bondi Innovation is run entirely for the community with everything going back into supporting innovation in Bondi.
This role will suit someone working on other projects with some spare time, who can benefit from being central to the local innovation community.