Home Time Campaign Manager

About the Opportunity

The Home Time Campaign Manager works with the Head of Policy, Advocacy and Government Relations to lead the national Home Time campaign to succeed in achieving the policy and system changes needed to address Australia’s youth housing crisis.

The Home Time campaign is focused on addressing the critical shortage of youth-specific housing and support services for young people aged 16–24 who are experiencing homelessness in Victoria. Home Time is built as a broad community coalition that unites over 170 supporter organisations and thousands of individual community members, all working towards long-term structural change. By harnessing the collective power of this group, the campaign aims to influence federal, state, and territory housing policies through targeted, evidence-based advocacy and community pressure.

The role will identify, develop, and implement campaign strategies that maximise the campaign’s impact on national and state housing policy agendas. These strategies will include multi-faceted policy, advocacy, communications, government and stakeholder relations strategies. The role will coordinate, engage and inspire the campaign’s organisational supporters, so they are engaged and add value to the campaign.

About you

We are looking for someone who can:

• Develop and execute campaign strategies that maximise the influence of the Home Time campaign across varies political contexts, including coordination of national, state and local campaign activities
• Engage organisational supporters in effective campaign actions (both online and in-person)
• Develop, implement and coordinate digital strategies to engage individual supporters and establish and manage new social media platforms and maintain and operate existing Home Time website
• Build positive and productive relationships with organisations including peak bodies, allied campaigns, and sector leaders to increase overall impact.
• Undertaking research that fulfils the needs of the campaign, collaborating with external organisations/institutions where appropriate and beneficial
• Develop policy submissions, position papers, and other written material to succeed in achieving the policy and system changes needed to address Australia’s youth housing crisis.
• Design, establish and coordinate Home Time’s youth advocacy and participation group

Benefits of working with MCM include:

• Diverse and inclusive organisation
• Attractive Salary Packaging benefits
• Supportive learning and development environment
• Culture of continuous improvement

Essential:

• Tertiary qualification in law, political science, public relations, journalism or a related discipline and/or professional experience in public policy relating to homelessness.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating successful advocacy campaigns
• Demonstrated understanding of the Australian political environment
• Experience in developing and executing successful media and social media strategies (including development of platforms and analytics)
• High-level written skills, including the ability to translate complex information or bureaucratic jargon into plain English and to tell stories.
• Computer literacy, including proficiency in Microsoft Office, prior experience with member management systems such as CampaignMonitor (or similar), prior experience with SquareSpace (or similar), prior experience developing content in Canva (or similar), prior experience with DoGooder campaign platform (or similar)

Screening Criteria:

• National Police check
• Working with Children check and NDIS Worker Screening check or ability to obtain
• Valid Victorian Driver's license
• Right to Work in Australia

Applications for this role will close on 2nd November 2025/or Applications may close before the deadline, so please apply early.  Please include your current resume and cover letter.
Please review the position description to understand more about the role and responsibilities.  If you have any needs throughout the recruitment process that have not already been catered for, we encourage you to contact recruitment@mcm.org.au to let us know how we can better support you to apply.

About MCM

MCM is an inclusive and equal opportunity employer with a strong commitment to safety. MCM embraces differences because we know that diversity and inclusion help us to attract, recruit, engage and retain talented people. 
We are a leading not-for profit-for-purpose organisation that offer a broad range of services in Disability, Homelessness, Palliative Care and Education.

Our commitment to Safety

MCM is committed to the safety of its clients and employees, taking a zero-tolerance approach to violence within the workplace and abuse, including child abuse and abuse of people with disability. All employees are required to comply with the Child Safe Standards.

Our commitment to Diversity, Inclusion & Equity of Access

At MCM we embrace our differences because we know that diversity helps us to innovate and make the biggest impact possible. Our DEI Strategy supports and drives an inclusive workplace culture. We embrace the learning opportunities that come with authentic commitment to equity of access for all. We particularly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates to apply.