Senior Communications Officer, Media & Public Affairs

GiveWellGlobal health

Location: United States (Remote), A work schedule with some overlap with American working hours and the schedules of key coworkers.Full-TimeSenior

Salary225,000 USD per year

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Experience: 10+ years of experience in media relations, thought leadership, and public engagement.

Have 10+ years of experience in media relations, thought leadership, and public engagement.
Bring significant communications leadership experience in complex, high-stakes environments, with end-to-end ownership of the work.
Demonstrate experience building meaningful external relationships and identifying public engagement opportunities.
Show experience personally representing an organization and navigating public-facing situations with limited context and short timelines.
Demonstrate exceptional communications judgment, including evaluating audience, context, risk, timing, and message substance.
Communicate complex ideas clearly and compellingly without sacrificing rigor or nuance.
Have created or substantially rebuilt a team or function and hired, developed, and managed people.
Show recent hands-on communications work personally produced or substantially shaped.
Have experience producing direct, factual communications that engage their target audiences.
Be able to engage deeply with research and data and communicate what is known and unknown accurately.
Have experience advising executives or other senior decision-makers directly.
Show strong alignment with GiveWell’s mission and values, including truth-seeking, transparency, and accurate communication.

Set strategy for media, thought-leader engagement, online communities, public forums and events, and other earned communications opportunities.
Build and maintain relationships with journalists, editors, podcast hosts, event organizers, thought leaders, subject-matter experts, and other influential stakeholders.
Identify, develop, and pitch substantive stories, event opportunities, and thought-leadership ideas.
Own inbound media engagement, coordinating rapid responses with subject-matter experts and escalating when needed.
Monitor emerging issues and lead GiveWell’s external response in sensitive or fast-moving situations.
Advise leadership on external opportunities and relationships, and prepare senior leaders and subject-matter experts for public appearances.
Evaluate public-facing communications partnerships and advise on which opportunities to pursue.
Represent GiveWell in selected media interviews, events, and public forums.
Work with grantees and partners on press releases and other media-facing communications.
Manage and develop team members and build the systems and capacity the function needs.

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