[Hiring] Senior Manager, Public Relations @Kiva.org

Role Description

The Senior Manager, Public Relations is a flexible, multifaceted communications leader who carries the PR and media backbone of Kiva's Communications & Influence team. This role spans public relations and media strategy, partner campaigns, thought leadership amplification, and analytics, and requires someone equally comfortable setting direction and executing the details, activating strategy across focus impact areas rather than staying within a single lane.

The Senior Manager supports the Director with PR, media, and thought leadership efforts, drawing on borrower stories, impact stats, research, and outcome metrics to fuel Kiva's external media presence. This role also leads public-facing campaign development with Kiva's Strategic Partners, Lending Partners, hubs, and granting organizations, working closely with both Marketing and the Strategic Partnerships teams to identify, shape, and execute opportunities. The Senior Manager owns Kiva's LinkedIn channel strategy and execution as well as thought leadership amplification, ensuring PR wins, campaign results, and insights are shared broadly across Marketing, partners, and the wider Kiva team.

At this time, we can only consider applicants with authorization to work in the United States on a permanent, full-time basis; unfortunately we cannot provide visa sponsorship.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in public relations and media relations, including direct media pitching, journalist relationship management, and securing earned coverage. Agency experience preferred.
• Experience developing and executing thought leadership strategy, including narrative development, channel activation, and positioning senior leaders as industry voices.
• Experience managing multi-partner communications or marketing campaigns, coordinating execution across internal teams and external partner organizations simultaneously.
• Preferred: experience working within a PR agency, or managing a PR agency relationship client-side.
• Preferred: working knowledge of Sprout (or an equivalent social publishing and listening platform), Air (or an equivalent digital asset management system), Looker (or an equivalent data and reporting tool), Dovetail (or an equivalent research and insights repository), and Salesforce (or an equivalent CRM).

Requirements

• Skilled at pitching media, building and maintaining journalist relationships, and translating data and stories into pitch-ready narratives.
• Comfort working with or managing a PR agency relationship, including brief development and pitch review.
• Demonstrated creative writing skills, with experience in thought leadership and content creation and media pitch development.
• Ability to synthesize impact data, borrower stories, and outcome metrics into compelling, accurate PR materials.
• Experience coordinating public-facing campaigns across multiple stakeholders, including corporate partners, nonprofit or foundation partners, and internal cross-functional teams.
• Ability to manage campaign timelines, deliverables, and approvals working cross-functionally across organizations with differing priorities and processes.
• Comfort partnering with Creative and other teams to develop campaign assets without owning creative production directly.
• Experience owning and growing a brand's presence on LinkedIn or a comparable professional channel, including content strategy and performance tracking.
• Familiarity with identifying and securing speaking, panel, awards, and/or conference opportunities for organizational leadership.
• Comfort working with reporting and analytics tools to track PR, campaign, and channel performance, and translating findings into clear recommendations.
• Experience socializing insights and results across teams with varying levels of data fluency.

Benefits

• A work-from-home position; final candidate must be authorized to work in XX.
• An opportunity to improve real lives, solve hard problems, and change the world.
• Friendly, supportive, and adventurous environment with a team of engaged colleagues.
• A comprehensive, industry-leading benefits package including health, dental, and vision insurance, parental leave, professional development, 401k matching, and unlimited PTO. Some of these benefits have eligibility requirements. Many of these benefits are subsidized or fully paid for by Kiva.
• Opportunities to connect with and learn from colleagues and partners around the world.
• Salary range: $91K - $118K; a final offer will be dependent upon a candidate’s location, skills, and experience.
• Currently, we are only able to hire home employees residing in the following states: AZ, CA, CO, DE, GA, IL, KS, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, NY, OH, OR, SC, TX, UT, VA, and WA.