Corporate Affairs Specialist

About Loam

At Loam, we have the earth in our hands. As a team of scientists, farmers and entrepreneurs, we are on a mission to improve the world’s farmland and address climate change. We are developing microbial technology to remove CO2 from the atmosphere and build carbon in agricultural soils. We help farming businesses prosper by boosting yield and soil health and enabling access to carbon markets.

As a start-up with ambitious founders and investors, our work is fast-paced and multidimensional. We foster a supportive and diverse workplace, where every team member is encouraged to learn and grow beyond their area of expertise.

While everyone at Loam is working in different roles, we all have one job: to remove CO2 from the atmosphere and store it stably in farmer’s soils.

About the Role

In this role, you will support the development of Loam’s brand, messaging, and engagement. You will develop and distribute Loam’s digital content, and be the gatekeeper across our digital channels to ensure the Loam brand and story are communicated to our key audiences. You will also support our corporate communications function and manage media and speaking requests, along with the corporate pages of our website.

At Loam, we have huge climate change ambitions and your role will see you helping us continue to shape what is already a compelling story, driving global awareness of both our technology and the amazing potential microbes have to address the climate crisis. As Loam's Corporate Affairs Specialist, you will become the “go-to” for Loam’s internal content development and support the team to tell not only Loam’s story but their own professional stories. You will also be working closely with the full scope of our team, from our microbiologists and soil scientists to our commercial team and executive board.

In summary, this role is integral to communicating the impact that Loam will have on agriculture and climate change, and position the agricultural industry and farmers as leaders in climate action.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and distribute high-quality digital content across our website and social media channels
• Develop and execute a digital engagement plan to support our brand recognition across a global market
• Development of Loam’s corporate copy for website and publications
• Supporting the Communications and Sales & Extensions team to develop content to engage Loam’s stakeholders, including the science, technology, and agricultural industries
• Liaising with external content developers and service providers, including photographers, videographers, graphic designers, website developers and writers
• Collaborating with your fellow Loamies to develop meaningful content (written, visual, and/or video) that informs and engages our key audiences
• Media monitoring across traditional and digital channels
• Monitoring and reporting on all Loam’s external facing channels to understand engagement and interaction trends across different communities and global audiences
• Developing writing and interviewing skills to be able to share farmer, researcher, and other stakeholder stories.
• Supporting internal teams with communications related activities to ensure the Loam brand and messaging is consistent across documents, presentations, collateral and other channels.

Requirements

This role is suited for an individual who is earlier in their Communications career but has ambitions to be a leader in agricultural and scientific storytelling, brand development, and creating global impact through innovation and agriculture. You will be passionate about developing your storytelling skills, with an eagerness to learn new communications, engagement, brand and marketing skills.

You will have:

• Tertiary qualifications in Communications/ Marketing/ PR or relevant work experience
• A sound understanding of agricultural science, with experience in agriculture or science industries a preference
• A startup mindset, with a willingness to do things differently to create impact at scale
• High level of comfort with digital tools and platforms
• A strong sense of creativity, demonstrated through your ability to craft and share interesting, valuable content
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Benefits

• A competitive package based on experience
• An opportunity to create a real and tangible impact on global Agriculture and climate change
• A collaborative and highly engaging work environment with engagement across the Loam international R&D, product and commercial team
• Ability to have significant impact and grow with the organisation

Please note, this role has the option to be based in Orange, NSW or Sydney, NSW. The location of this role will be based on the successful applicant's preference.