🏏Join Cricket Victoria for our upcoming 2025/26 season – We’re Hiring a seasonal, part-time Digital Content Specialist!
Are you passionate about cricket (in particular Premier Cricket), content creation and connecting fans to the game they love? Then this may be the position for you…
Cricket Victoria is looking for a passionate and highly creative Digital Content Specialist to support our Premier Cricket department to maximise our audience engagement for the upcoming Premier Cricket season through the creation of digital content across all our social media channels and website.
This is a fixed term part-time 2 days a week position from late September 2025 through to mid-April 2026.
💪What You’ll Be Doing:
- Lead the content creation for the Premier Cricket website, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts.
- Create content that highlights and increases awareness of Cricket Victoria’s Talent Pathway Programs, both male and female.
- Attend Premier Cricket matches, events, training sessions and commercial sponsor activities to produce content.
- Assist Cricket Victoria’s Digital team in drafting stakeholder eDMs
- Create social media reports and manage social media analytics tools
- Drive the creation and distribution of media releases
- Support generating PR and media opportunities throughout the season
- Monitor media coverage and recommending relevant responses
🎯What You’ll Bring:
- A passion for creating innovative, eye-catching content
- Established knowledge and proficiency in social media management and content production, with an emphasis on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter
- Strong understanding of cricket in general and Premier Cricket in particular
- Proficient in Adobe Photoshop and eDMs
- Strong communication skills and a positive, proactive attitude
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work under pressure and outside standard hours, including weekends and public holidays throughout the festive season
- Experience working within a similar position within a sporting environment or alike
🎁The Benefits:
- State of the Art location at our CitiPower Centre, St Kilda
- Great Work life balance through flexible working
- Tickets to a range of sporting events (yes, this includes cricket)
- Free onsite gym access
- Corporate Health Insurance Offers
- Corporate Partner Discounts
- Casual, friendly and inclusive work environment and team culture (our top priority)
🏆Why Join Cricket Victoria?
You’ll be part of a fast-paced, high-energy environment where your work truly connects people to the excitement of cricket. Whether it’s capturing content on a match day, creating content for socials between the weekends or working on exclusive eDMs for our stakeholders, you’ll play a key role in shaping the summer of cricket for our Premier Cricket community.
If you have the credentials, demonstrated experience and qualifications for this role, please apply by clicking on the “Apply Now” button and ensure you include a cover letter and resume.
The successful candidates must be available to work out of hours, weekends and public holidays from September 2025 through to April 2026.
Applications close date Monday 22 September 2025 at 9:00am.
Note as applications come through, shortlisted applicants will be contacted so it is strongly encouraged to submit your application at your earliest convenience. If the right candidate is identified prior to the above close date, applications may be closed earlier than advertised.
At Cricket Victoria, we embrace diversity in gender, age, ethnicity, disability, religion and sexual orientation. We are committed to providing a safe environment for children across Australian Cricket and we also offer a flexible work environment for all employees.
We measure ourselves on our ideals – “Leading the Game”; our shared ideals have the power to create positive change and deliver excellence for our customers, colleagues, and communities. Our people value integrity, connection, accountability, respect and excellence.
We require all applicants to undergo background checks and screening prior to or during any appointment. Australian Cricket’s Commitment Statement to Safeguarding Children and Young People can be found at www.cricketaustralia.com.au/safeguarding
