Traffic Manager

The Position

Plays a pivotal role in managing the flow of projects and tasks within the creative team, ensuring resources are effectively allocated, deadlines are met and projects are delivered efficiently.

Acting as the central hub for project coordination, the Traffic Manager oversees workflows, balances team capacity, and communicates with stakeholders to maintain transparency and alignment.

This role is essential for driving operational excellence, minimizing bottlenecks, and ensuring high-quality outputs across campaigns and deliverables and equally plays a pivotal part in educating the Australian Community in global development and humanitarian issues.

This is a Maximum Term contract role for 12 months – Parental Leave

Responsibilities:

• Manage the end-to-end traffic flow of projects, ensuring tasks are assigned, tracked, and completed on time
• Create and maintain project schedules, timelines, and deadlines across multiple campaigns and deliverables
• Coordinate and allocate resources based on project requirements, team capacity, and deadlines
• Act as a liaison between departments to prioritize tasks and manage competing demands
• Serve as the primary point of contact for internal teams for project updates and requests
• Ensure clear communication of project briefs, timelines, and expectations to team members
• Implement and maintain project management tools and systems to streamline operations
• Contribute to post-project evaluations to capture insights and refine processes for future improvements
• Track and report on project statuses, resource utilization, and team capacity to leadership
• Maintain accurate documentation for project briefs, schedules, and updates
• Provide regular updates to stakeholders on project progress and any potential risks or delays

Who we’re looking for:

We are looking for someone with strong organizational and multitasking skills, you will be detail oriented with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.

In addition, you will have:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, fostering collaboration and alignment across teams
• Proficiency in project management and traffic tools (e.g., Asana, Trello, Monday.com, Workfront)
• Problem-solving and decision-making skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities effectively
• Knowledge of creative production processes, including design, content creation, and media planning
• Experience working in a creative agency or in-house marketing/creative team environment
• 5+ years of experience in project management, traffic management, or a similar role
• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Project Management, Communications, or a related field

The selection process 

For your information, the interviews may start immediately, and the role may be filled before the closing date.

We embrace diversity, employing people from a variety of cultural and religious backgrounds. We take our Safeguarding responsibilities seriously and we are committed to providing an environment that is safe for children. Our stringent recruitment procedures make sure the safest and most suitable people work with the children in our programs. All successful candidates will undergo all required pre-employment checks which is inclusive of a criminal record check. We provide our staff and volunteers with ongoing supervision, support, and training in their work with vulnerable children and their families.  World Vision Australia participates in the Inter-Agency Scheme for the Disclosure of Safeguarding-related Misconduct in Recruitment Process within the Humanitarian and Development Sector. 

Who we are

World Vision is a Christian organisation that empowers everyday Australians to create meaningful change for children through relief, development and advocacy work. 

We offer great benefits such as salary packaging, birthday leave, flexible working arrangements, free on-site parking and an onsite café for our employees.

For more information on World Vision and the work we do, please visit our website: https://www.worldvision.com.au/about-us