The Creative Women's Association (CWA) is the originating and founding authority of the Cultural Work & Provenance Sector in Australia — the first organisation in the country to name this sector, define its boundaries, and build the frameworks required for it to be formally recognised.

CWA operates across five interconnected streams: the Southern Cross® Certification Mark for Australian-milled cloth, the Heritage Skills Registry, the Institute for Contemporary Culture, the Women in Culture Awards, and Australian Cloth. Our research programme includes published white papers, independent policy audits, and proof of concept documents across women's health, economic participation, sovereign manufacturing, and cultural labour. We are building the national infrastructure for a sector that underpins large areas of Australian public and economic life — and we are doing it from the ground up.

We are now seeking an experienced** Women in Culture Project Lead to join us as a volunteer and take ownership of the development, campaign, and delivery of the Women in Culture Awards.

What you will do

You will lead the end-to-end development and delivery of the Women in Culture Awards — CWA's national recognition platform for women whose cultural leadership and practice has shaped communities, industries, and generations. Working directly with CWA's founder, you will progress the awards from their current development stage through to full public launch, nomination process, judging, and presentation on October 17 — the International Day of Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Your responsibilities span three interconnected workstreams. In campaign and publicity, you will develop the public-facing campaign for the awards, build media and outreach strategies to generate nominations and visibility, and work alongside the Marketing & Communications Lead to ensure the awards land with the reach and gravity they deserve. In awards development, you will assist in finalising the awards structure — categories, criteria, nomination and judging processes — translating the intellectual foundation already established into a working, public-ready framework. In events management, you will begin the planning and coordination groundwork for the October 17 presentation, managing logistics, stakeholder communications, and the operational detail required to deliver a flagship national event.

What you will bring You have demonstrated experience in project management, campaign development, and events coordination — ideally across all three, though strength in any two combined with genuine capability in the third is welcome. You understand how to build toward a fixed public moment and how to manage the multiple workstreams that converge on it. You are a strong communicator who can work within an established brand framework and contribute to campaign copy without needing to rebuild the foundations. You bring genuine respect for the purpose of the Women in Culture Awards and the women it exists to honour.

Why this role matters The Women in Culture Awards is the first national recognition platform for women's cultural leadership and practice in Australia. Its flagship honour — the Women in Culture Laureate — recognises the woman without whom the room would not exist. These are not conventional achievement awards. They exist to make visible the women whose contributions have sustained cultural life across generations, often without recognition, often without record. The person who leads this campaign is not organising an event. They are building the infrastructure through which that recognition finally happens.

What you will gain You will work directly with CWA's founder on one of the organisation's most publicly significant initiatives. You will have creative and strategic input into an awards program being built from the ground up, full visibility of the organisation's direction, and the opportunity to deliver something that will matter to the women it reaches. The Women in Culture Awards will grow. The people who shaped its first year will have shaped everything that follows.

To apply Express your interest through Seek Volunteer. Please include a brief note on your experience in project management, campaigns, or events — and what draws you specifically to the Women in Culture Awards.