Special Projects Manager (Communications Team)
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Future of Life InstituteAI policy
Listing locations: USA, UK; Location base: USA,UK, Based in a timezone between West Coast, USA and the UK (UTC-8 to UTC+1).Full-TimeManager
Salary100,000 - 190,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- Project ManagementSEOQuality Assurance
Requirements
- Be based in a timezone between the West Coast of the USA and the UK (UTC-8 to UTC+1).
- Demonstrate the ability to coordinate complex, multi-stakeholder projects, navigate competing priorities, secure alignment from senior colleagues, and turn unclear input into direction.
- Have a track record of building or significantly improving delivery processes, such as intake, review, quality assurance, or approval workflows.
- Have project management experience across design, communications, and/or digital or web projects; experience managing external agencies is preferred.
- Show a genuine interest in FLI's mission and be able to represent its work credibly to agencies, judges, contest entrants, and partners.
- Demonstrate strong quality judgment and confidence in sending back work that does not meet the required standard; a portfolio of quality-assured shipped work is desirable.
- Remain calm under deadline pressure and be comfortable saying no and offering alternatives.
- Experience running participatory or multi-stakeholder projects, such as contests, awards, grant rounds, or festivals, is preferred.
- Familiarity with website delivery, CMS platforms, and enough technical literacy to triage issues and communicate with developers is preferred.
- Working knowledge of SEO and digital audience growth, including technical and on-page fundamentals, analytics tools such as GA4 and Search Console, and the effects of content and campaign decisions on reach, is preferred.
- Nonprofit, policy, advocacy, or campaign experience is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Translate stakeholder requirements into clear, actionable creative and technical briefs, and clarify or scope conflicting asks.
- Define project success with internal and external stakeholders and incorporate goals into design and content strategies.
- Develop and execute communications projects.
- Identify project skill gaps and source, onboard, and manage agencies, contractors, and freelancers.
- Review deliverables against briefs, brand guidelines, and WCAG accessibility standards; run structured review rounds and approve final work.
- Ideate and develop digital products that support FLI's mission and organizational objectives.
- Deliver multi-month initiatives, including international creative contests, end to end.
- Work with the website development agency to maintain the design system and visual consistency across high-volume output.
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