Director of Communications

  • UtrechtNetherlands

  • £77,000 to 82,000 Per Year

Job Description

Director of Communications at Changing Markets Foundation

Changing Markets is looking for an experienced Director of Communications to join our dynamic team and play a key role in our mission of running and winning market transformation campaigns. This is an exciting new position, offering the successful candidate the opportunity to create our public communications strategy and shape our media relations on a range of impactful international campaigns, whilst taking a hands-on-approach to elevate our public communications and impact. The position is full-time, and we offer a flexible working environment with at least three days a week in our London office (based in Shoreditch). 

The Changing Markets Foundation was formed to accelerate and scale up solutions to sustainability challenges by leveraging the power of markets. We create and support campaigns that expose irresponsible corporate practices and shift market share away from unsustainable products and companies towards environmentally and socially beneficial solutions. We have a successful track record of achieving media coverage in mainstream publications, which has played a critical role in winning our campaigns. We have been running successful campaigns across climate, food, fashion, and circular economy issues, as well as impactful projects, such as a cross-sectoral greenwashing observatory. 


About the role 

The Director of Communications will be responsible for lifting our public communications to the next level. We are looking for a proactive, hands-on leader, who will build relationships with journalists, as well as with other key audiences, secure media hits in top mainstream media, ensuring that communications are a strong part of our strategies to win campaigns. The successful candidate will work across all our projects and be responsible for developing and implementing communications strategies for our campaigns and organisational comms strategy. We are a small team, so this is a hands-on role, which requires managing all our communications channels and working closely with our team, external consultants and creatives. The Communications Director will report directly to the CEO. 

We are looking for an experienced communications professional with at least 10 years’ experience in leading successful communications for a non-profit organization, PR agency or similar. Ideally, you are a creative, hands-on individual with outstanding inter-personal skills, who is a team player and able to form collaborative working relationships with a variety of different stakeholders, ranging from journalists to creative agencies and our NGO partners. 


The successful candidate must have:

  • demonstrable experience in leading and implementing communications to win corporate or public policy campaigns at the national and international level, including proven track record of achieving top-tier media coverage.
  • excellent writing, editing and communication skills in English, knowledge of other languages is a plus.
  • proven track record of engaging and developing relationships with journalists and an understanding on how we can successfully leverage press work around key campaign moments.
  • an ability to lead, implement and coordinate the launch of our impactful reports (created either in-house or by external consultants). This entails working with Changing Markets campaigners, at every level, on report writing, developing press strategies for the launch, which includes liaising with our partners, and reaching out to journalists.
  • a good eye for detail, combined with a strong ability to distil and critically evaluate key information and translate it into simple media and social media materials.
  • good organisation skills with the ability to deliver to tight deadlines, multi-task and operate in a fast-paced environment with occasional heavy workloads. 
  • the ability to think out-of-the-box and introduce new and innovative ideas, as well as to adapt our communications to changing circumstances.
  • digitally-savvy with experience leading online campaigns for social engagement and mobilisation.
  • the willingness to regularly create and disseminate content, such as social media posts, op-eds, blogs, and newsletters. Familiarity with web tools such as Word Press, Mail Chimp and Canva is a plus.
  • an interest in environmental issues with a passion for creating lasting social change. 
  • Exceptional interpersonal skills, with a collaborative, creative mindset and the ability to build strong, effective working relationships at every level.


It’s a plus if a candidate has:

  • excellent knowledge of and passion to work on environmental and social issues.
  • good knowledge of the use of creative communication tactics, such as short videos.
  • passion to create narrative shifts on complex social issues and personal interest in countering misinformation and greenwashing. 


Salary and Benefits

  • an open-ended competitive UK employment contract 77,000 - 82,000 £/year 
  • benefits, such as pension contribution, life insurance, income protection benefits, private medical insurance and sports allowance. 
  • flexible working hours and possibility for hybrid work.
  • an opportunity to be part of a diverse international team based in London, Brussels, Utrecht and Madrid; possibility to travel for work.

     
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