About the Role

Cristosal is looking for a communications professional who can turn investigations, legal casework, advocacy, and regional analysis into content that reaches donors, journalists, policymakers, influencers, and the public — taking complicated, substantive work and making it clear and shareable, then using that to grow our audience and support fundraising. This person will own both the storytelling and the brand: shaping narratives, producing content across platforms, and keeping Cristosal’s voice consistent.

Responsibilities

Storytelling & Content Translation

• Turn investigations, legal casework, advocacy campaigns, and regional analysis into accessible, compelling stories.
• Develop hooks, narratives, and angles tailored to different audiences — donors, media, influencers, policymakers, and academics.
• Create and oversee content across social media, newsletters, the website, blogs, and donor communications.

 

Audience Growth & Public Engagement

• Proactively generate attention rather than simply produce content on request.
• Craft headline and story pitches for journalists and prominent publications
• Identify opportunities for earned media and build relationships that support it.
• Develop creator and influencer engagement opportunities.
• Connect communications strategy directly to fundraising goals.
• Grow and deepen audience engagement over time.

 

Brand & Editorial Quality Control

• Maintain a consistent voice, positioning, and message discipline across all channels.
• Oversee visual and brand consistency.
• Serve as an editor and quality steward for all outgoing communications.

 

Content Production

• Produce high-quality content directly, including social posts, newsletters, website updates, blogs, reels, basic video, and briefing materials.
• Guide and support other staff or contractors on routine content execution.

Core Requirements

• Proven ability to translate complex human rights, legal, or policy material into clear, compelling public-facing content.
• A strategic communications mindset — audience growth and impact, not just deliverables.
• Initiative and creativity; generating ideas rather than waiting for direction.
• Understanding of how communications connects to fundraising.
• Strong editorial judgment and quality control.

 

Important

• Experience managing brand consistency across multiple channels.
• Comfort producing content across platforms: social, newsletter, web, video/reels.
• Ability to segment messaging for different audience types.
• Strong written and spoken English and Spanish

 

Helpful, Not Required

• Media relations experience and press contacts.
• CRM or contact database management.
• Experience with website information architecture, dashboards, or data repositories.

Position Details

Location	Remote (work from anywhere)
Employment Type	Full-time
Work Hours	Must be available during US business hours
Salary Range	$70,000–$80,000, commensurate with experience

This role is based out of Cristosal’s US office. Compensation and employment terms above reflect a US-based hire. Candidates residing outside the US are welcome to apply — compensation and structure will be adjusted based on local market conditions and employment requirements

How to Apply

Please submit a resume, a cover letter, and two or three writing or content samples that show your ability to turn complex subject matter into engaging public-facing material to Tarrah Palm, Director of Resource Development – tarrah.palm@cristosal.org. Accepting applications until August 10, 2026.

Cristosal is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds who share our commitment to human rights.

Contract: Fixed term, consultancy contract – 45 days
Focus and Target Regions: This role has a dual focus:

1. Project manage delivery and support implementation of digital
   and design needs in collaboration with the Digital and Design
   Coordinator.
2. Produce marketing copy (email invitations, flyers, landing pages
   etc) to support delivery of technical projects.

Place of work: Work from own premises with potential travel
Supervisor: Reporting to Manager, Creative Solutions
Direct Reports: N/A
Anticipated start of work: Immediate start
Duration: Until 31 Dec, 2026, with potential to extend

BACKGROUND

We only have 8 years to half buildings sector GHG emissions and be on a zero-emissions path. GBPN is tackling this challenge by decarbonising the building sector through policy reform. This requires a collective effort.

GBPN is a system-wide network NGO working to reform building sector policy to limit global warming. Formerly a think tank, GBPN now works on innovative projects in key regions of the world where it can have the most impact.

GBPN works using a unique coalition model that connects local policymakers and building professionals with industry-leading experts to reform building policies to achieve zero-emissions goals. We combine global insights with local action changing building policy through education, support and collaboration.

We’re changing the conversation, highlighting the climate, health, economic and environmental benefits of policy reform.

Our primary audiences are government policy and decision makers, industry practitioners and experts working within the building sector to assist in limiting climate change (e.g academics, researchers, developers, designers, renewable energy experts etc).

THE OPPORTUNITY

The Creative Solutions Unit serves as an internal creative services function offering professional communications, design and digital services to our regional project teams. Its goal is to streamline delivery and costs while ensuring high quality and brand adherence in our project outputs that have a communications focus. This also frees up technical teams to focus on what they do best – technical project delivery.

The Creative Solutions PM role is responsible for managing implementation of project communications requests, alongside the Digital and Design Coordinator. Activities include:

• Coordinate effective delivery of ticketed requests.
• Provide advice on best practice for project communications deliverables. Project Communications is distinct from brand/corporate communications in that it includes activity that directly supports project implementation and project deliverables in the regions.
• Provide project management of a global calendar of activity on behalf of multiple project regions (Indonesia, India, Africa, China).
• Provide copywriting and simple graphic design services across a broad range of marketing products in support of project deliverables, including flyers, web pages, email invitations, pitch decks and other presentations, stakeholder engagement tools etc.
• Provide referral of brand content opportunities to the Global Communications team.
• Assist with quality control of content created by the Creative Solutions team.
• Manage the overall calendar of the Creative Solutions team; briefing the Digital and Design Coordinator and booking external resources as needed to ensure the internal team is not overloaded.
• Liaise with regional teams.
• Attend meetings as required to obtain briefs, manage workload and update Global team members.
• Contributing to quarterly reporting.
• Other tasks as required.

Qualifications

We are looking for a strong project manager with excellent copywriting and basic graphic design skills and qualifications, including a degree in Marketing or other relevant discipline, or extensive agency experience. They should ideally have experience in preparing project level comms in the fields of climate change and built environment and an interest in GBPN’s core business (climate change, disaster risk reduction, international or community development, international relations, urban planning, placemaking or similar fields).

SELECTION CRITERIA 

Essential:

• Strong project management and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Able to manage quality control of deliverables across a diverse range of disciplines, including digital development, graphic design, and project communications.
• Fluency in English with excellent copywriting skills, especially for marketing outputs. Able to convert complex technical ideas into engaging, straightforward language, including editing copy and developing and briefing infographics from technical material.
• Basic graphic design skills – e.g. Canva.
• Able to follow an established strategy, as well as think outside the box to come up with innovative ways to deliver the strategy or pivot when circumstances evolve.
• Able to work from home, to work independently with minimal supervision and high levels of proactivity.
• Confident using digital collaboration tools such as Zoom, Google Suite (or willing to learn).

Desirable:
We are seeking an individual with:

• Experience in preparing project level comms in the fields of climate change and built environment.
• Experience briefing and managing external production agencies (e.g. copywriting, graphic design).
• Experience working across multiple projects with tight and often competing deadlines.
• Experience with NGO/INGOs.
• Awareness of climate change mitigation and related issues (renewable energy, urban planning, sustainable buildings etc).
• Knowledge of CRMs, especially Zoho, a bonus.

DELIVERABLES

• Management of the Creative Solutions calendar, deadlines and workload.
• Effective liaison with the project teams and other key stakeholders.
• Effective quality control of content produced by agencies and other consultants.
• Excellent copywriting.
• Basic graphic design using templates.
• Manage reporting process.

HOW TO APPLY

Please provide an application/proposal including:

1. Cover Letter (no more than 2 pages)
   • Availability: Proposed start date and availability.
   • Capability and experience: A short overview of how you meet the selection criteria and short description of relevant previous consulting assignments similar to the proposed assignment.
   • Examples: Link to portfolio showing examples of your written and design work.
2. CV
3. Financial proposal (in USD): Detailing your services and work described. Daily fees (USD rate per 8h-day) should be inclusive of all fringe benefits, applicable taxes and other costs.

Applications should be sent to heather.potter@gbpn.org cc: careers@gbpn.org with the subject line “Creative Solutions Project Manager ”
Deadline: 31/08/2026 – 12:00 CET
1 – Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted
2 – The position will be filled as soon as a suitable final candidate is selected

CONTRACT TYPE AND SCHEDULE OF PAYMENT

Assignment through a consulting contract of 45 days over a period to Dec 31 2026 with possibility for extension upon review. The consultant will work from home/their normal place of work.

Schedule of Payment:
Fees in USD shall be paid to the Consultant: (inclusive of expenses or plus reimbursable expenses upon submission of invoice and supporting documents, as applicable) not to exceed the final costing agreed at negotiation and in a contractual agreement. Invoices should be submitted according to the schedule agreed in the contract, along with a timesheet, outputs and overview of activities delivered. All final outputs will be subject to internal GBPN review procedures, and will need to be cleared by the Head of Communications and Marketing.

LEEP seeks a dynamic generalist with excellent communication and coordination skills who will be responsible for supporting several of LEEP’s programs in Asia.

Position Summary

Application Deadline: 2 August 2026

Start date: As soon as possible

Hours: Full-time, 12-month fixed-term contract with potential to extend or become permanent

Location: Remote.

Time Zone: Candidates must be located between UTC +5 to UTC +8. Flexibility with working hours is essential. 

Language Requirements: Full professional proficiency in English is required. Mandarin, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Thai or Malay is a plus.

Salary: Salary is dependent upon location and experience. E.g., Rp616,452,824–Rp703,738,180 IDR for Jakarta-based roles; ฿1,339,001–฿1,528,594 THB for Bangkok-based roles; 976,624,015₫–1,114,907,062₫ VDN for Hanoi-and Ho Chi Minh City-based roles; $64,291–$73,394 SGD for Singapore-based roles. 

How to apply: Fill out this application form 

Contact: hiring@leadelimination.org 

About LEEP

LEEP is an impact-driven, evidence-based nonprofit that aims to eliminate childhood lead poisoning, which affects an estimated one in three children worldwide. We primarily focus on one important source of exposure: lead paint. Our paint programs involve generating data, supporting governments with the introduction and enforcement of regulation, and assisting manufacturers in switching to lead-free paints. Beyond our paint programs, we are piloting interventions to address  other sources of lead exposure, such as spices and cosmetics.

Since our founding in September 2020:

• We have initiated lead paint elimination programs in 40 countries; completed 33 paint studies; and agreed on goals to establish lead paint regulation with government agencies in 18 (e.g., Angola). 
• We’ve made crucial progress in engaging with manufacturers in 22 countries (e.g., Pakistan), and in reducing the lead paint market share in Ghana, Malawi and Pakistan. 
• Founders Pledge estimates that it costs $1.66 to prevent one child’s lead exposure (in expectation) through our work, making LEEP one of its most cost-effective nonprofit recommendations. Our own analysis estimates that it costs under $5 to avert one DALY equivalent through LEEP’s first 13 established programs.
• We are a partner of the WHO and UN Environment Programme’s Global Alliance to Eliminate Lead Paint and a member of the Partnership for a Lead-Free Future.

• We have received grants from major grantmaking organisations, including Founders Pledge, Coefficient Giving, Bloomberg Philanthropies, USAID, and Schmidt Futures.
• We have appeared in Nature, Vox, Time Magazine, The New Yorker, Prospect, on the 80,000 Hours Podcast, and our co-founders were named in Vox’s Future Perfect 50.

About the Role

LEEP is seeking a dynamic generalist to support with coordination and execution in our paint programs in Asia. The Program Associate will be responsible for contributing to the successful delivery of the steps of our paint programs, including: collaborating with central and state governments to support prioritisation of the issue; providing technical assistance on regulatory implementation; engaging constructively with industry to encourage the removal of lead from products; conducting studies to generate country-specific data; and building partnerships with civil-society organisations.

As Program Associate, you will work with the Senior Program Manager to drive progress in several paint programs in Asian countries, deploying your capacity and executing across various contexts based on variable program needs and escalation points. We are looking for candidates who are high-agency, extremely versatile, have strong interpersonal skills, and who share LEEP’s values. By helping to drive LEEP’s program work, with support from the team, you will be able to make a huge difference, positively impacting the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.

Responsibilities

• Working with governments on introducing and implementing lead paint regulation
  • Engaging with policy-makers across multiple ministries and agencies, and staying in close communication
  • Preparing advocacy communications and educational resources 
  • Participating in government meetings and presenting at stakeholder workshops, with support from your Senior Program Manager
  • Conducting training and providing expert feedback  
• Industry assistance
  • Engaging with all manufacturers in a focus country, both large companies and small- and medium-sized enterprises
  • Presenting the case for lead paint phase-out and how LEEP can support 
  • Working in collaboration with LEEP’s paint technologist to find solutions to manufacturers’ requirements
  • Finding suppliers of non-lead based raw materials 
• Research and data collection
  • Conducting paint studies: finding and purchasing paints, preparing samples, and sending them to the lab, in collaboration with government partners
  • Preparing study reports and summarising existing literature

What We’re Looking For

A successful applicant will possess or be most of the following:

• Passion for LEEP’s mission and a strong commitment to achieving meaningful, scalable impact
• Strong interpersonal skills and adeptness at understanding the perspectives of various stakeholders and collaborating towards shared goals
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
• Comfort with educating and persuading a variety of stakeholders on material that may be new to them
• Extremely versatile, able to switch contexts easily and work across a broad range of tasks
• Strong organisation and planning skills; experience in project management is advantageous but not required
• Enterprising, a quick learner, and creative problem-solver
• Comfort with risk and ambiguity
• Ability to remain focused and solution-oriented in a fast-paced environment
• Capable of working in a remote environment
• Willing to travel for at least 8 to 12 weeks per year
• Full professional proficiency in English 

Other promising attributes:

• Full professional proficiency in other languages, in particular: Mandarin, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Thai or Malay.
• Experience living and/or working in low- and middle-income countries 

Work Environment

Our culture is one of genuine care for each other and passion for our work and its impact. We are a team that values collaboration, openness, and mutual support, which creates an environment where everyone can thrive while contributing to meaningful work. 

Though we are a remote team, we are supportive and close-knit. We stay connected through weekly team calls and 1:1 calls, where we have conversations about both non-work and work topics; we regularly share photos and celebrate milestones and successes in our Slack; and we come together annually for an in-person retreat to strengthen relationships and reflect on our mission.

Our team of 60+ people is based across five continents and speaks over 10 languages. We have diverse expertise, from medicine to environmental health to international law.

Our work schedule is flexible. Some of the team work 9-5:30, and some adjust their daily schedule around school pick-up. We value work-life balance and rarely contact team members outside their work hours. 

LEEP offers: 

• A chance to have a very large positive impact on the world
• 33 days of paid leave
• Generous sick leave and parental leave policies
• 4% pension contribution or equivalent
• Professional development opportunities
• Health Insurance in places where government healthcare is limited
• Annual team retreat

How to Apply

Here’s a summary of the application process for a successful candidate. We might make adjustments.

• Complete the application form by August 2nd.
• After submitting your application, you’ll receive an email inviting you to complete a short, 31-minute screening assessment. Please check your inbox (and spam folder) within 24 hours of completing your application. 
• Attend a 25-minute initial screening call
• Complete a 2-3 hour work test designed to simulate the work you would do if hired and evaluate key skills important for success in the role
• Attend one remote panel interview
• Receive an employment offer!
• Submit references

LEEP is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Candidates and employees are always evaluated based on merit, qualifications, and performance. We will never discriminate on the basis of race, colour, gender, national origin, ethnicity, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other protected characteristic.

GiveWell’s mission is to help people in need as much as we can by researching the most cost‑effective ways to save and improve lives, sharing our work openly, and directing donations to the programs we believe will do the most good. Our work, which focuses on global health and well-being, is funded by tens of thousands of donors who rely on our research to inform their giving. We’ve grown from directing $1.5 million in 2010 to directing more than $400 million in 2025—and we expect to direct more than $500 million in 2026. Through years of deliberate groundwork, we’ve been growing our research capacity and scope in order to direct substantially more funding to the most impactful opportunities we can find.

The Role

GiveWell is hiring a Senior Philanthropy Advisor to manage and advise a portfolio of our largest donors. This role will help shape our relationship strategy with donors giving seven- to ten-figure gifts and will have significant influence over how GiveWell’s philanthropy function grows and evolves. You will manage and advise a portfolio of our largest donors, serve as a leader within our philanthropy team, and be a thought partner to our senior leadership team.

Why We’re Hiring NowMany of our donors are analytical, quantitative thinkers, and their deep engagement with our research makes our work better. We’ve built a philanthropy team to match. We take the time to understand what our donors value, we treat their giving as a true partnership, and we invest in learning our own research deeply so we can help donors do the same. We measure our relationships in years, not quarters.

We face a historic opportunity to scale giving to high-impact causes and to save and improve lives around the world. To meet this moment, we are engaging a new generation of major philanthropists, while strengthening the partnerships model that has made our existing donor relationships so productive. We believe that deepening our philanthropic partnerships with our current and future major donors is one of the highest-leverage actions GiveWell can take to ensure significantly more funding for some of the world’s most cost-effective programs.

What You’ll Do

• Build long-term, trust-based relationships with major donors that deepen donors’ understanding of GiveWell’s work. 
• Proactively identify the insights, data points, and narratives from GiveWell’s research that are most relevant to major donor decision-making.
• Drive and lead team-wide initiatives and significant projects to make our work accessible, from learning journey design, playbooks, and systems to donor events and donor communications.
• Translate GiveWell’s research into original donor-facing content that makes our work accessible to analytically sophisticated, time-poor major donors. 
• Serve as a strategic advisor to GiveWell’s leadership.
• Drive improvements to our philanthropy culture, systems, and processes to improve how our philanthropy function operates and scales.

About You

You understand how people translate their values into action. You’re comfortable connecting with a wide range of people, from the donor who wants to deeply understand every assumption in our model to the donor who wants a high-trust, low-friction recommendation they can act on quickly, and everyone in between.

Your background includes significant experience earning trust with discerning, analytic people, where you are a partner in somebody else’s high-stakes decisions. You’ve experienced navigating this, not by telling them what to do, but by helping them think clearly and get the right information to support what they’re trying to accomplish. You know how to help people navigate doubt and complexity. You are comfortable both bringing a clear point of view (for example, by saying, “Here’s what I would do”) and helping people strengthen their own judgment over time. 

You are excited by intellectually demanding work. You are ready to engage with complex global health topics, including our cost-effectiveness models, program evaluation, and evidence quality. You are driven to get up to speed and be ready to explain them clearly to audiences who will push back on our thinking. You are excited to engage with hard follow-up questions and people who will expect rigorous answers. While you don’t need prior global health experience, you will need to demonstrate you can get up to speed quickly on complex quantitative subject matter and translate it rigorously and credibly.

You bring high emotional intelligence, curiosity, and a clear sense of mission to your day-to-day work. You’re a collaborator who connects dots and builds relationships across teams. 

You bring depth of leadership experience, and you are comfortable supporting strategic decisions and rolling up your sleeves to build and shape our work. You are ready to bring adaptive energy to this work while being comfortable deeply explaining your reasoning and taking time to reach high-quality decisions where it matters.

Strong candidates will have: 

• A track record of managing sophisticated, high-stakes relationships—whether with major donors, ultra-high-net-worth clients, foundation officers, board members, or similarly discerning stakeholders in another field entirely.
• Exceptional relationship management skills, with high emotional intelligence, an advisory mindset, and the ability to hold a large amount of context about a person and synthesize it in real time.
• Interest in global health and development, and the ability to engage in complex research and ideas even without prior experience in the sector.
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal—clear, tailored, and credible messaging for discerning stakeholders, including comfort producing original written content.
• Leadership skills to partner with senior staff and influence across teams collaboratively.
• Strong operational expertise: leading cross-team projects, building scalable processes, and translating strategy into action.
• Strong alignment with GiveWell’s mission and values, including truth-seeking, transparency, humility, and long-term trust-building.

Who Tends to do well:

• People who enjoy building relationships and understanding what motivates the people they work with
• People who can engage thoughtful, analytical audiences and handle nuanced conversations
• Fast learners who can pick up complex, unfamiliar subject matter and enjoy translating it verbally and into written content
• Self-starters who take ownership and work well in a collaborative, evolving team
• People who are proactive and anticipatory—who reach out before the other person knows they need something
• People who are comfortable sitting with complexity and helping others navigate uncertainty 
• People who are enthusiastic about GiveWell’s mission and values

Key Questions

What are some of the reasons I might not like this role?

• You prefer research or analysis over building relationships with people
• You struggle with initiating challenging or direct conversations
• You  prefer highly structured environments with clear answers at all times
• You prefer to share information and let others draw conclusions, rather than offering their own synthesis and point of view

What does this interview process entail?

We’ll use a combination of interviews, written exercises, and work trials to assess the qualities described above. We’ll share more specific details if we invite you to move forward to any of the following stages, but our current plan is:

• Screen with our Manager, Talent Acquisition
• Compensated 4-hour work trial (written)
• Interviews with our VP, Philanthropy and Senior Manager, Philanthropy
• Additional work trial (live interview) with our VP, Philanthropy and a Senior Philanthropy Advisor
• Final Onsite in our Oakland, California headquarters, where you’ll interview with members of our executive leadership team in person (we will cover your travel expenses).
• References

Note that you don’t need to submit a cover letter. We rely heavily on your resume and answers to the application questions below when we’re making early decisions. We encourage you to spend time responding to the application questions thoroughly and carefully.

Details

• Team: You’ll report to our VP of Philanthropy. 
• Compensation:
  • NYC or the San Francisco Bay Area: $220,000
  • All other U.S. locations: $200,000
• Location: This position is eligible to work fully remotely within the US.
  • Offices: You are welcome but not required to work from our offices in Oakland, California; Brooklyn, NYC;. We’ll cover relocation expenses for candidates who wish to move to one of these physical office locations.
• Flexibility: We support and encourage flexible working, including flexible hours, working remotely, and working from the office when you choose. The majority of our staff, including senior management, work flexibly in one way or another.
• Benefits: Our benefits include:
  • Fully funded health, dental, vision, and life insurance (we cover 100% of premiums within the US for you and any dependents)
  • Four weeks of paid time off per year
  • One week all-office closure 
  • 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
  • Ergonomic home workstations or coworking space memberships
  • Automatic contribution equal to 5% of your gross salary into your 403(b) retirement plan (for U.S. based staff)
• Start date: We’d like a candidate to start as soon as possible after receiving an offer, but we’ll offer flexibility for candidates whose personal or professional circumstances require them to moderately delay their start date.

About GiveWell

GiveWell is dedicated to finding and evaluating highly cost-effective global health and development opportunities, and we publish all the work, reasoning, and uncertainties behind our funding decisions. Our giving funds enable donors to contribute to the most impactful and cost-effective programs our researchers identify. 

GiveWell is one of the world’s largest private funders of global development efforts. Trusted annually by tens of thousands of donors, GiveWell searches for highly cost-effective programs that save or improve lives the most. Since 2007, more than 150,000 donors have given over $2.6 billion through GiveWell to the most promising programs its research has identified, which we estimate will save more than 340,000 lives.

GiveWell is most well-known for recommending a small number of Top Charities, which currently support seasonal malaria chemoprevention, insecticide-treated nets, vaccine incentivization, and vitamin A supplementation. However, most of our research capacity and grantmaking is devoted to cost-effective opportunities outside of those programs.

GiveWell grants have:

• Helped governments navigate changes to the funding landscape and implement high-impact health programs, like HIV/syphilis screening and treatment for pregnant people in Zambia and Cameroon.
• Sought to scope and scale promising interventions that don’t have clear existing implementers. We are supporting the Clinton Health Access Initiative’s Incubator to identify potentially cost-effective interventions and create programs that we would be excited to support in the future. For example, we funded a program to prevent tuberculosis among young children in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, India, that we co-designed with CHAI through the Incubator program.
• Provided funding to ensure that programs that recently faced foreign aid funding cuts could continue, like healthcare support and malnutrition treatment in northern Cameroon.
• Funded program delivery alongside strengthened monitoring and evaluation, as in our grants to support treatment of clubfoot and to evaluate the program.  
• Tested our assumptions and refined our understanding through further research and data collection, including improved estimates of disease burden and studies on the effect of water chlorination on mortalityand the impact of a tree-planting program on farmers’ income.

We make our reasoning public and transparent so others can challenge it (sometimes we even pay people to point out our errors). We go to unusual lengths to check our assumptions and assess our impact, including funding research to address our uncertainties and gathering independent monitoring and evaluation data about the programs we support. We change our minds when the evidence demands it. For more about GiveWell, listen to Ezra Klein’s recent interview with GiveWell’s co-founder and CEO Elie Hassenfeld.

Additional information

We don’t want to miss candidates that could do great things at GiveWell. Practically, that means a GiveWell staff member reviews every application carefully, considering the whole picture of your background and potential. If you’re on the fence about applying because you meet some but not 100% of our preferred qualifications (some studies suggest this hesitation is especially common for women and people of color), we encourage you to apply anyway.

GiveWell is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer by choice. At minimum, this means that we comply with all federal, state, and local EEO and employment laws. Beyond the requirements of those laws, we value our team’s diversity in all respects, and we desire to maintain a work environment free of harassment or discrimination—we want our team members to thrive at GiveWell. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, contact us at careers@givewell.org. We will consider employment for qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

By submitting an application, you acknowledge that you have read and consent to GiveWell’s Privacy Statement for Applicants. By completing an application exercise, you acknowledge and assent to GiveWell’s Work Trial Policy.

Position Overview 

Job Title: Communication Lead  

Location: Remote within Africa and Europe. The successful candidate will be expected to attend periodic in-person team meetings and occasional travel for organizational events and partner engagement. 

Length of Contract: Full-time. Eighteen months with possibility of extension 

Preferred Start Date: As soon as possible 

Deadline: 15th August 2026 (Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis) 

Organizational Context

 Founded by two Black women in the aftermath of the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests around the world, the African Futures Lab (AfaLab) works to advance demands for racial justice for Africans and Afro-descended people globally.  

We pursue the recognition and repair of global racial injustices through rigorous, empirically grounded knowledge exchange across Africa and Europe. Our work includes research, “Mobilization Labs” with partner organizations, and advocacy.  

Our work aims to bolster activists and policymakers in holding states and private actors accountable for the enduring effects of colonialism and slavery in Europe and Africa. Our current projects focus on the intersections of racial justice with gender rights, climate justice, and socio-economic inequalities. 

As the African Union Decade of Reparations (2026-2036) begins, AfaLab is working alongside partners across Africa and Europe to help shape evidence-informed dialogue, strengthen advocacy and contribute to advancing reparatory justice. This is a pivotal moment for the movement, and an exciting time to join our team! Learn more about AfaLab on our website  (external link)or follow us on Instagram  (external link)and LinkedIn (external link).    

About the Role

We are looking for a strategic, creative, and highly collaborative Communications Lead to lead the implementation of AfaLab’s new communications strategy. 

This is an exciting opportunity to shape how a growing organization working at the forefront of racial and reparative justice communicates its work, influences public discourse, and strengthens its profile across Africa and Europe. 

This role combines strategic communications leadership with hands-on execution. Working closely with the Executive Director, program teams and external partners, the Communications Lead will translate AfaLab’s communications strategy into action, embed it across the organization’s work, continuously refine it and ensure AfaLab’s communications advance its mission and advocacy objectives. 

What Impact You’ll Make

 As Communications Lead, you will play a central role in shaping how African Futures Lab is seen, heard and understood. 

You will bring our new communications strategy to life, ensuring our research, advocacy, campaigns and partnerships reach and influence the right audiences. By translating complex ideas into compelling narratives, you will strengthen AfaLab’s visibility, deepen our engagement with partners and policymakers, and contribute to changing the narrative on racial justice and reparations across Africa and Europe. 

Success in this role will be measured not only by the quality of communications outputs, but by their strategic impact, influence, and contribution to AfaLab’s mission.   

Key Responsibilities

  The core responsibilities of the Communication Lead include: 

Planning & Monitoring  

• Lead the implementation of AfaLab’s communications strategy, monitoring progress, and continuously refining approaches in response to organizational learning, audience insights, and the evolving external landscape. 
• Translate the communications strategy into annual and quarterly plans. 
• Develop and implement an editorial calendar for the organization’s regular communications, including managing and updating the organization’s website and social media platforms (LinkedIn, Instagram, Newsletter). 
• Steward AfaLab’s organizational narrative and messaging across all communications.   
• Provide strategic communications support for organizational priorities, ensuring communications is integrated into program planning, events and advocacy initiatives from the outset. 
• Establish and monitor communications performance indicators, using qualitative and quantitative data and digital analytics to evaluate impact and continuously improve communications. 
• Produce regular communications performance reports and recommendations for leadership and program teams. 
• Monitor traditional and digital media to identify relevant articles, events and reports, assess their impact on the organization and propose relevant communications strategies 
• Contribute a communications perspective to our programmatic work, organizational planning and strategic discussions. 

Content creation & digital communications 

• Produce high-quality written and visual communications across multiple platforms (Linkedin, Instagram and website). 
• Create cross-platform content outputs which achieve the organization’s advocacy campaign’s goals. 
• Maintain and strengthen AfaLab’s visual identity and communications standards across all outputs.   
• Lead communications planning and delivery for advocacy campaigns, reports, publications, podcasts, events, and other major organizational initiatives 
• Lead AfaLab’s digital communications across its website, newsletters, LinkedIn, Instagram and other relevant platforms with an adapted strategy to each platform 
• Grow and engage AfaLab’s audiences through strategic storytelling and digital campaigns.    
• Ensure all digital communications remain current, accessible and aligned with AfaLab’s brand and strategic priorities. 
• Explore innovative digital approaches and emerging communications tools to strengthen impact. 

Media Engagement & Partnerships 

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with journalists to increase media coverage of AfaLab’s activities and advocacy efforts 
• Develop and maintain a media and stakeholder contact database to support proactive outreach and engagement. 
• Draft press releases, media briefings and key messaging. 
• Monitor traditional and digital media to identify emerging opportunities, trends, and reputational risks. 
• Identify proactive media opportunities for AfaLab’s research, advocacy and leadership 
• Identify and pursue opportunities for partnerships with advocacy organizations, focusing on shared messaging and strategic collaboration 
• Support media engagement around organizational events and announcements. 

Analytical Abilities 

• Review, interpret, and synthesize research reports and program outputs, distilling key insights into accessible and impactful messaging 
• Apply evidence and audience insights to strengthen communications approaches, messaging, and organizational influence. 

Required Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Ccommunications, Journalism, Political Science, International Relations or another relevant field, or equivalent professional experience. 
• At least 5 years of relevant, professional experience in communications  
• Demonstrated experience implementing communications strategies and leading integrated communications campaigns.  
• Experience communicating research, policy or advocacy work to diverse audiences.  
• Experience working within civil society, philanthropy, international organizations or think tanks is an advantage. 

Languages 

• Excellent written and spoken English 
• Ability to independently develop, edit and deliver high-quality communications in French (full professional proficiency or equivalent). 

Knowledge 

• Understanding of racial justice, reparations and broader social justice discourse. 
• Familiarity with policy, advocacy and research communications and trends in social justice discourse. 

Technical 

• Excellent writing and editing skills. 
• Ability to translate complex and technical content into accessible language and clear, engaging visual assets. 
• Strong visual communication skills using Canva and Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop & Illustrator) Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, Adobe design softwares (Indesign, Photoshop, Illustrator) and Canva.  
• Working knowledge of video editing tools. 
• Experience managing digital communications, including websites, newsletters, and social media.  
• Strong analytical, planning, and project management skills.  

Ways of Working

• Thrives in a small and dynamic team  
• Pays attention to details especially for the visuals content creation 
• Effectively manages multiple priorities and deadlines in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.  
• Committed to  AfaLab values: justice, integrity, creativity, reliability and optimism  
• Exercises sound judgement and adapt to changing priorities.  
• Works independently while taking initiative and ownership. 
• Demonstrates exceptional interpersonal skills and the ability to foster collaboration 
• Passionate about racial justice and dedicated to advancing AfaLab’s mission. 

If you’re excited by the opportunity to shape public narrative and amplify research and advocacy, we encourage you to apply by 15 August 2026. 
 
African Futures Lab is an Afro-feminist organisation committed to fostering an equitable, collaborative and inclusive workplace. We particularly encourage women to apply.