Come work with us at Women In Sports Empowered Hong Kong Limited (“WISE”)!
We are on a mission to make the world a better place for women and girls! We believe in the power of sport and physical activity to transform lives. We are building a team who want to work with us to break down barriers to sports participation and help girls and women to thrive through sport. Sport is one of the best tools to achieve good health and wellbeing, and reduce inequality; by joining us, together we can work towards a world that is more diverse and inclusive and achieve gender equality. It’s an exciting journey ahead, and we are just getting started!
This is a full-time role suitable for someone with a minimum of two years of professional experience and is passionate about promoting sports and empowering youth and individuals through sports.
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About Us
We empower, educate and connect women and girls to thrive without limitations. We use sports as a tool for gender empowerment to drive the equality agenda in all areas such as workplace, education, and community. We champion the advancement of women and girls’ leadership in and through sport, with the aim to achieve gender equality and a diverse and inclusive culture in Hong Kong.
We’ve been passionately building and serving Hong Kong’s women and girls since 2017 and received charitable status in December 2020.
Project Manager Role (full time)
As a Project Manager, you play an integral role to support our team, including our Founder and other designated WISE representatives such as our Board members to execute tasks in any of the following areas:
- Programs and Activities
- Marketing and Communications
- Fundraising and Partnership
For Programs and Activities, you will work with our Programs and Activities Committee to organize activities for our three core focus groups (teens, young adult women and families). Your tasks can include and not be limited to:
- Design and develop sports-related programs and training for women and girls in Hong Kong, including content, structure, format, resources and workshop materials including but not limited to audio, visual and written content and presentations as well as journals and handbooks
- Oversee management of the programs and activities, ensuring high-quality output and on-time, in-budget delivery; engage external vendors or freelance help as required
- Research and test program ideas to continually adapt and improve the programs to deliver more value to participants
- Provide regular communications and updates to partners and stakeholders, including program proposals, activity rundowns, timelines and post-program reports and evaluation
- Lead and provide on-site briefings / debriefings, guidance and support to volunteers, coaches, mentors and facilitators
- Provide program updates and photos to share with our social media and communications consultant to add to the WISE website and social media
- Track and maintain data and record for annual and regular reporting
- Recruit, train and supervise others as necessary such as volunteers, mentors, coaches, facilitators and interns as needed
For Marketing and Communications you will work with our Communications Committee to produce content that drives engagement and support from various different WISE stakeholders groups. This can include but not be limited to:
- Developing a communication strategy and plan and executing it in line with the WISE vision, mission and goals and targeted at our different stakeholder groups (program participants, donors / supporters / volunteers, general public)
- Develop effective communications and marketing activities to promote WISE and engage with a wider range of stakeholders and potential supporters
- Produce regular content for our Social Media (Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn) by staying up-to-date on program activities and promoting / sharing as appropriate
- Create impactful marketing campaigns and resources to enable reach to these target stakeholders
- Produce content for our monthly email / newsletter to our email distribution
- As pertinent, update our marketing collateral
- Work with our Community Manager to ideate and execute fun and engaging campaigns through social media to build up WISE’s audience base and reach
- As pertinent, maintain and update content for the WISE website and work with volunteers or other supporters for SEO
For Fundraising and Partnerships you will work with our Fundraising and Partnerships Committee to organize events that will garner different types of support (monetary, in-kind, skills and other resources) from different stakeholder for our programs and activities. This can include but not be limited to:
- Ideate, organize and implement fundraising events and activities
- Together with the Communications Committee and Fundraising Committee, promote our fundraising events to drive up attendance and donation
- Set fundraising goals
- Liaise sponsors, partners and volunteers
- Be present at partnership or fundraising events and be tasked with responsibilities to coordinate volunteers, take photos and videos or live share our events to our audience
- Build relationships with community stakeholders to advance the mission and goals of WISE and the sports-related programs and garner their support
Desirable Skills:
- Commitment to the mission and values of WISE and its role in promoting gender equality through sport
- Passion for cause and to support WISE to grow
- Self-starter and proactive
- Adaptable
- Attention to detail
- Curious
- Positive, resilient, and supportive of others
- Commitment to the promoting equality, diversity and inclusion
Experience / Background:
- At least two years’ of professional experience ideally in programs or communications or fundraising, whether through employment or voluntary work:
- Experience in managing projects from ideation to implementation to reporting
- Experience in content creation for channels such as newsletter, website, social media, and marketing materials
- Experience in events organizing
- Experience working with schools in Hong Kong
- Experience of website content managements systems, ideally WordPress
- Experience in email distribution systems, such as MailChimp
- Experience of organizing and promoting events
- Fluency in English and Chinese
Job Details:
- Full time role
- Flexibility on working hours and location but expect there will be regular meetings either in-person or online
Questions? Email: recruitment@wisewomenhk.com