Job description

We’re looking for a communications manager to develop communication strategies for the delivery of key reports and products. The communications manager will act as a strategic partner with research colleagues, helping them position research to maximise impact. You’ll work with designers and creatives to ensure finished products are designed with a consistent and compelling brand identity. You’ll be a creative, vivid writer with strong project management skills and impressive attention to detail.

This is a full-time position and the successful candidate can work remotely from any major media hub. This is a one year contract (renewable subject to performance and funding).
 
Key activities:
Strategy and planning

• Manage the timeline of publishing products as appropriate to ensure these are tied to external news hooks where possible, and to ensure smooth workload across the team.
• Develop communications strategies for the delivery of key reports and products and act as a strategic partner with research colleagues, helping them position research to maximise impact.
• Produce project management plans where necessary, liaising closely with all relevant stakeholders.
• Assess and manage production needs for the communications team: brochures, hand-outs, online interactives, etc. that can help achieve the team’s goals.
• Maintain up-to-date communications planning calendar, working across organisation to ensure all key dates are inputted in a timely fashion, and researching externally where necessary to identify opportunities.
• Contribute to overall communications and brand strategy.

Production

• Manage designers and creatives to ensure finished products are designed with a consistent and compelling brand identity. This includes report design, infographics, brochures, pamphlets, website interactives and visuals.
• Manage translations of knowledge products.
• Input WF and A4AI products into design templates and ensure professional production.
• Copyedit and where needed copywrite for knowledge products, using external contractors to deliver this where needed.

Promotion

• Draft blogs, press releases and op-eds where appropriate for knowledge products.
• Update media lists and create new lists for press campaigns.
• Support on creating social media content to promote knowledge product launches, working with the social media channel manager on strategy, timing and ensuring organisation-wide key messages are consistent.
• Draft newsletter content for knowledge product launches,and work with the newsletter manager to agree best timing to engage our supporters.
• Assist with media relations in advance of major knowledge product publication to secure media opportunities that bolster wider communications and branding efforts.

Monitoring and measurement

• Where appropriate, compile social media, website, download and media statistics for each knowledge product launch to feed into quarterly communications reports.

Other

• Lead on production of annual reports, external-facing impact reports and/or financial reports – in close collaboration with the finance and operations director

Requirements

Qualifications:
Education

• Educated to BA level

Essential knowledge and experience

• At least four years’ experience with progressive levels of responsibility in communications, PR, publishing, writing or related field
• Strong project management skills and experience with a variety of project and budget management tools
• Impressive attention to detail a must, with a track record of flawless copy editing
• Creative and entrepreneurial, with demonstrated success in coming up with bold approaches to grab attention and engage audiences
• Vivid writer, able to present difficult concepts in clear, simple English and/or in compelling images
• Track record of working with complex, research-based material to distill key messages and extract facts, quotes and stories that will drive coverage
• Persuasive, assertive and persistent in selling in stories/interviews
• Highly motivated and organised, thriving under pressure, pursuing targets aggressively

Desirable knowledge and experience

• Experience in working with a celebrity patron or founder
• Understanding and experience of more than one global media market
• Knowledge/experience of communications work in a developing country
• Contacts in the tech/development journalism world
• Strong visual/graphic design sensibility
• French or Spanish language skills

Posted on 28 May 14:55