Director of Communications

Summary:

Location: Washington, DC

Duration: 6 Months

Work Mode: Part-time - Ideal schedule would be 4 days a week, 5 hours per day.

Responsibilities:

• Develop strategic plans and oversee their implementation to promote thought leadership dissemination initiatives (10-12 annually).
• Create integrated communication strategies that increase awareness, engagement, and influence among key audiences.
• Develop messaging architecture, narrative frameworks, and storytelling strategies that translate complex research, policy issues, and programmatic work into clear, compelling, and audience-specific communications.
• Build alignment across the Foundation and enterprise stakeholders, convening cross-functional teams to improve communications processes and drive successful execution of strategic initiatives.
• Create communications playbooks, frameworks, and measurement approaches that improve consistency, scalability, and effectiveness across research dissemination, thought leadership marketing, and reputation-building efforts.

Requirements:

• Minimum 8 years of experience in strategic communications, thought leadership, public affairs, research communications, content strategy, or a related field.
• Demonstrated success translating complex research, data, public policy, or social impact issues into compelling communications and narratives.
• Exceptional writing, messaging, storytelling, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working with nonprofit, philanthropy, advocacy, public affairs, research, or mission-driven organizations preferred.
• Bachelor's degree required.

Preferred Skills:

• Familiarity with audience engagement, reputation management, media relations, executive communications, and content strategy.
• Experience with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.) and Project Management software (e.g., Asana).