Communications & Editorial Coordinator

We're looking for an experienced writer and editor to join Healthy Male, a national not-for-profit helping Australian men and boys better understand their health and make informed decisions about it.

You'll have substantial hands-on experience writing and substantively editing long-form content. You know how to take complex information, find the angle that matters to the audience and turn it into something accurate, engaging and genuinely useful.

You’ll also be comfortable managing the work around the words. Whether you’re following up a review or clarifying a brief, you’ll help keep content moving through to publication.

About the role

You’ll manage editorial production across Healthy Male and our other initiatives, taking agreed briefs through to final approval.

A core part of the role is managing an AI-assisted editorial workflow. You’ll submit briefs you've developed and approved evidence to our drafting tool, then take responsibility for editing the resulting drafts and preparing them for expert review and final approval.

You'll use your experience as a writer and editor to critically assess, restructure and substantially rewrite content to make it engaging, accessible and faithful to the evidence. You'll also draw on your original writing skills to research, develop and write content where required.

Alongside articles, you’ll provide editorial support for email and social content where needed and coordinate practical aspects of podcast production.

Reporting to the Communications & Marketing Manager, you’ll work closely with our Senior Content Strategist and Health Content Manager. You’ll have clear direction and specialist support, with responsibility for managing your work and keeping it moving.

Success means delivering content that meets the brief and connects with its intended audience. We’ll also look at how reliably you manage production, including working through feedback and raising issues early.

This is a four-day role, working Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, with Thursdays in our Melbourne CBD office. These workdays are fixed. The position is 0.8 FTE (30.4 hours per week), fixed-term to 30 September 2028.

What you’ll be doing

• Capturing agreed briefs from content planning sessions and following up missing information before production begins
• Substantively editing and rewriting long-form articles and resources, improving their structure, clarity, accuracy and audience engagement
• Researching, developing and writing original long-form content where required, working within agreed briefs and approved evidence
• Using audience personas and the purpose of each brief to guide editorial decisions, including how content encourages understanding or action
• Checking drafts against approved sources and referring questions about evidence or clinical meaning to the appropriate expert
• Editing contributions from colleagues and guest writers
• Coordinating feedback and revisions through to final approval, including clinical review where required
• Updating existing articles and applying agreed SEO recommendations to help people find and use our content
• Reviewing email and social copy where additional editorial support is needed
• Helping with podcast research and scripts, preparing show notes and YouTube metadata
• Managing Community Voices Group communications, from welcoming members to following up after consultations
• Keeping production records up to date so briefs, source materials and approvals are easy to find

About you

You’re interested in how good communications influence what people think and do. You enjoy working with words and finding an approach that makes someone want to keep reading, particularly when the subject might otherwise feel awkward or easy to ignore.

You bring creative judgement to editing. That might mean finding a stronger opening or changing how an explanation unfolds, while staying faithful to the evidence. You think about who the content is for and what it needs to achieve, then use the brief to guide your decisions.

You're proactive, independent and comfortable owning work from brief to publication. You manage competing priorities, make sound editorial decisions without constant direction and identify problems before they become bigger issues. You know when to make decisions yourself and when to seek specialist input.

What you’ll bring

• Significant professional experience writing and editing long-form content, such as articles, features or educational resources
• Advanced substantive editing skills, including the ability to restructure, rewrite and substantially improve content, not just proofread
• Excellent original writing skills, including experience researching subjects, developing angles and producing content through to publication
• Strong audience awareness and creative editorial judgement, with the ability to make complex information accessible, engaging and useful
• Experience working through feedback and approvals with subject matter experts
• Demonstrated ability to independently manage editorial projects, proactively resolve issues and deliver high-quality work to deadlines
• Sound judgement when communicating sensitive health topics or handling participant information
• Confidence learning digital tools and maintaining content workflows

Experience in health, science, education, public health or the social impact sector would be an advantage, particularly if you’ve worked with complex or evidence-based information. It’s not essential though, so if the rest of the role sounds like you, we’d still love to hear from you.

What you’ll get

• $80,000 annual salary for four days per week, plus superannuation ($100,000 full-time equivalent)
• Access to not-for-profit salary packaging to increase take-home pay
• Work remotely three days a week, with Thursdays together in our Melbourne CBD office
• Paid parental leave
• A consistent four-day work pattern
• Support for training and upskilling
• Close collaboration with experienced content and health specialists
• The opportunity to help men better understand their health

Who we are

Healthy Male is a national not-for-profit organisation working to improve the health and wellbeing of boys and men in Australia.

We cover subjects people often find difficult to discuss, including fertility, sex, bodies and mental health. Many of our readers arrive with a question they haven’t felt comfortable asking anyone else.

They need information they can trust and language they can understand. We take the evidence seriously and work hard to make it approachable, without lecturing people or assuming they already know the medical terminology.

Ready to apply?

Read the position description at healthymale.org.au/careers, then apply with your CV. In your attachment, include:

• Links to two examples of your work — either an original long-form article you've written or content you've substantively edited
• A cover letter telling us what interests you about the role and explain your contribution to the examples provided

Healthy Male is committed to equity, diversity and inclusion. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds, genders, identities and abilities.

Applicants must have Australian working rights that allow them to work for Healthy Male for the full duration of the contract, without employer sponsorship or restrictions on the length of employment with a single employer. Unfortunately, we're unable to offer visa sponsorship.