Director, Strategic Communications Network

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Equity Statement

GFNE is committed to equity and inclusion and strongly encourages applications from candidates of all backgrounds, especially those underrepresented in communications, advocacy, and global governance spaces.

The Director, Strategic Communications Network will hold the overall strategy for GFNE’s strategic communications workstream, with a focus on our investments in national communications hubs and international coordination. The role blends strategic leadership with hands-on delivery to help our ecosystem most effectively engage in key strategic communications fights on topics as wide as Just Transition to Cost of Living and the political economy of AI.

This role guides and participates in narrative decisions across hubs rather than acting as a central gatekeeper. The Director should help the network set high standards, deliver consistently and effectively for the movement, and to share learning internationally, while respecting national context, political realities, and diverse communication cultures. The Director, Strategic Communications Network will work closely with GFNE’s campaigns, policy, and program teams to identify narrative opportunities and act on them across the short, medium and long term.

The role will also engage directly with funders, partners, and peers in the strategic communications field acting as a thought leader for the field and advocate for our current and future investments.

The Global Communications Network is not being built from scratch.

GFNE is already supporting ten active or emerging communications hubs in several countries, with established work underway in contexts such as Brazil, Germany and Kenya who collectively make over 3,000 TV and Radio bookings per year. Existing activity includes narrative testing and salience research, skills-building for communications practitioners, and experimentation with rapid, digital content. The role therefore builds on live work in dynamic political contexts, with the opportunity to shape direction, coherence, and learning across an already moving system rather than designing in abstraction.