Director, Strategic Communications Network
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Based in the United States, flexibility across time zonesFull-TimeDirector
Salary175,000 - 190,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- Stakeholder management
Requirements
- Extensive experience leading strategic communications, advocacy communications, narrative strategy, media relations, or related fields within complex international environments.
- Proven ability to develop communications strategies that influence public conversations, policy debates, and social movements.
- Experience managing distributed teams and networks while fostering collaboration across different geographic and cultural contexts.
- Strong understanding of media ecosystems, digital communications, messaging frameworks, and communications innovation.
- Ability to translate complex ideas into accessible, persuasive, and impactful communications materials.
- Demonstrated experience working with funders, partners, coalitions, or advocacy organizations.
- Excellent leadership, relationship-building, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to operate effectively in a remote-first, fast-moving, and mission-driven environment.
- Strong judgment, adaptability, and the ability to navigate sensitive political and social contexts.
- Commitment to equity, inclusion, and building diverse teams and partnerships.
Responsibilities
- Lead and evolve the overall strategic communications approach, translating complex economic and policy concepts into compelling narratives adapted to different political, cultural, and media environments.
- Manage and develop a global communications team, building capabilities, establishing clear responsibilities, and supporting a sustainable and high-performing working environment.
- Guide communications hubs across multiple countries by providing strategic direction, capacity-building support, and frameworks that enable local teams to create meaningful impact.
- Strengthen collaboration and knowledge-sharing across national hubs by developing shared practices, experimentation processes, and learning systems.
- Support rapid-response communications efforts, media engagement, messaging development, executive communications, ghostwriting, and high-impact narrative moments.
- Partner with campaigns, policy, and program teams to identify emerging opportunities and ensure communications efforts support wider strategic objectives.
- Build and maintain relationships with funders, donors, and strategic partners while supporting fundraising efforts for the communications network and national initiatives.
- Represent the organization within the strategic communications field through events, partnerships, convenings, and sector discussions.
- Provide mentorship, training, and strategic guidance to communications professionals, partners, and network participants.
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