[Hiring] Senior Communications Officer, Strategic Communications @GiveWell

Role Description

We’re hiring a Senior Communications Officer, Strategic Communications to lead GiveWell’s development of messaging and narratives that explain its work across different audiences and contexts. You will translate the organization’s increasingly diverse and complex work into clear, accurate communications and lead major initiatives that require close coordination across GiveWell.

This role reports to Steven Profaizer, our Vice President of Communications, and will lead a small and growing team. This is one of three new communications leadership roles, alongside a Senior Communications Officer, Media & Public Affairs and a Senior Communications Officer, Editorial & Production.

In this hands-on leadership position, you’ll own how GiveWell explains its work across different audiences and contexts, with end-to-end responsibility for this emerging function. You’ll set its strategy, hire and develop its people, build its systems, and personally own its hardest and most consequential work. This is an opportunity to build, not just inherit, an important function at a critical point in GiveWell’s development. You’ll start with a small team and grow it over time.

While this role is set at the Senior Communications Officer level, we may consider hiring an exceptional candidate as a Communications Director—with greater expectations, responsibilities, and compensation.

As Senior Communications Officer, Strategic Communications, you will be responsible for translating GiveWell’s research, grantmaking, and ideas into messages, frameworks, and products across a variety of channels and contexts. You will also lead major communications initiatives, advise senior leaders and teams, and help GiveWell assess and respond to emerging communications opportunities and risks.

• Own how GiveWell’s brand positioning and guidelines are applied across teams, channels, and partnership communications.
• Own the messaging and narrative that make GiveWell’s work accessible and relevant without sacrificing rigor, precision, or clarity about uncertainty.
• Translate GiveWell’s research, grantmaking, and ideas into messages and frameworks tailored to the audiences we most need to reach.
• Partner with Philanthropy on GiveWell’s donor communications strategy and lead donor-facing communications that require new or tailored messaging.
• Lead complex, cross-functional communications initiatives, including major partnership campaigns and other high-priority communications involving grantees and external partners.
• Serve as a strategic communications advisor to senior leaders and teams across GiveWell.
• Lead GiveWell’s internal assessment of emerging issues that may affect the organization and develop our position and messaging.
• Own the strategic direction and institutional messaging for GiveWell’s website.
• Own GiveWell’s internal communications strategy and major internal communications.
• Manage and develop one or two team members initially, and help determine how the function’s team, systems, and capabilities should grow over time.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience developing institutional narratives and messaging.
• Experience advising senior leaders and communicating complex or technical material.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives.
• Exceptional communications judgment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• A track record of building and leading teams.
• Recent, hands-on excellence at your craft.
• Experience producing direct and factual communications.
• Intellectual curiosity and the ability to engage deeply with GiveWell’s research.
• Experience advising executives or other senior decision-makers directly.
• Strong alignment with GiveWell’s mission and values.

Requirements

• Skilled at using communications to help people understand complex ideas.
• Comfortable being accountable for outcomes and making consequential decisions.
• Ability to engage deeply with GiveWell’s research.
• Experience with organizational positioning, brand strategy, donor communications, web strategy, and internal communications is desired.

Benefits

• Fully funded health, dental, vision, and life insurance (100% of premiums covered within the US for you and any dependents).
• Four weeks of paid time off per year.
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
• Ergonomic home workstations or coworking space memberships.
• 403(b) retirement plan.
• Travel for three week-long retreats each year.