Work with us: Membership Coordinator and Communications & Advocacy Co-Manager
We’re looking for two self-motivated people to join the NAVA team. Applications close 11:59pm Sunday 29 March 2026.
Membership Coordinator
NAVA is seeking a Membership Coordinator to lead the day-to-day delivery and development of our Membership.
This is a hands-on, systems-focused role for someone who enjoys building clarity and consistency behind the scenes, while working directly with artists and arts workers.
Membership is central to NAVA’s work and sustainability. As we implement a new CRM system, we are looking for someone who can combine operational delivery with process improvement and data insight.
About the role
You will:
- Process Membership applications and renewals
- Respond to Member enquiries, including complex issues relating to pay and good practices under the Code of Practice
- Liaise with insurance brokers
- Maintain accurate and reliable Membership data
- Lead the implementation and optimisation of a new CRM system
- Develop clear workflows and improve internal systems
- Produce regular reports on Membership trends and renewals
- Coordinate monthly Member newsletter and social media scheduling.
You will work closely with the General Manager and Executive Director, contributing operational insight to NAVA’s advocacy and strategic work.
About you
You are:
- Highly organised and detail-oriented
- Comfortable working with databases and CRM systems
- Confident analysing data and identifying trends
- Calm and professional when responding to complex enquiries
- Motivated by improving systems and making processes clearer
- Interested in artists’ rights and equitable practice.
Experience in membership administration, CRM management or not-for-profit operations will be highly regarded.
Communications and Advocacy Co-Manager (0.6 FTE Job Share Arrangement)
NAVA is seeking a Communications & Advocacy Co-Manager to jointly lead our communications and advocacy portfolio in a structured job share arrangement.
This is a senior role for someone who combines strategic thinking with strong writing skills and political awareness. You will help shape national advocacy campaigns, grow NAVA’s Membership, and ensure our public communications are clear, credible and grounded in artists’ rights.
This role forms part of a 1.0 FTE job share model. The current role holder will continue in a 0.4 FTE capacity. You will work 0.6 FTE (3 days per week), sharing strategic and operational responsibility across the portfolio.
This is not a support position. Both Co-Managers contribute to strategy, campaign development and public positioning.
About the role
You will:
- Develop and deliver advocacy campaigns on issues affecting artists and arts workers
- Shape NAVA’s communications across website, eDMs, media releases and social channels
- Analyse Membership data and campaign performance to refine strategy
- Maintain and grow media and sector relationships
- Monitor political and sector developments to inform NAVA’s public voice
- Ensure all communications reflect copyright, moral rights and good practice standards under the Code of Practice for Visual Arts, Craft and Design.
You will work closely with the Executive Director and a small national team, operating within a job share structure with embedded handover and collaboration processes.
About you
You are:
- An experienced communications or advocacy professional
- An exceptional writer and editor
- Confident working within public policy and sector contexts
- Comfortable operating in collaborative or shared leadership environments
- Organised and capable of managing multiple campaigns at once
- Interested in artists’ rights and equitable practice.
- Experience in an arts, cultural, government or not-for-profit context will be highly regarded.
Why join the NAVA team?
The National Association of Visual Arts (NAVA) is an independent, not-for-profit, membership organisation which brings together the many voices of the contemporary arts sector to improve fundamental conditions of work and practice. We do this through advocacy, education and the Code of Practice for Visual Arts, Craft and Design (the Code).NAVA is a small, committed team working nationally to improve pay, conditions and professional standards in the visual arts sector. This is an opportunity to help shape the public voice of an organisation with real impact.
We are committed to creating a welcoming, respectful and culturally safe workplace. We strongly encourage applications from First Nations peoples, people from culturally diverse communities, d/Deaf and Disabled people, and parents and carers.
These roles may particularly suit experienced professionals seeking a flexible senior position, including practiscing artists, portfolio workers and those returning to the workforce.
Image credit
NAVA General Manager Janel Yau and First Nations Outreach Coordinator Georgia Mokak at the Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair (DAAF) 2025 NAVA Industry Booth. Photo by Dylan Buckee.
ID: Two NAVA staff members smile and engage with a visitor at the NAVA industry booth at DAAF 2025, surrounded by flyers and resources for artists.
The NAVA community is based across hundreds of sovereign nations and unceded lands throughout the continent that has become colonially known as Australia. We pay our deepest respects to all First Nations communities' ancestors and Elders.
Sovereignty was never ceded.
Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.
