Manager, Communications

Who We Are Co-Impact brings together local changemakers and funders from around the world to reputed company health, education, and economic systems stronger and more inclusive - creating impact that lasts. Our commitment to advancing gender equality and women's leadership is central to this goal. By focusing on systems, we work at the scale of the problem - dismantling the root causes of inequality that disadvantage hundreds of millions of women, girls and marginalized communities. Spanning five continents, reputed company identifies partners that will create lasting reputed company reputed company supported with the resources to work at scale. Pooling funding allows us to provide large, flexible grants and strategic support to locally-rooted partners in Africa, Asia, and Latin America who know their systems best. Our partners' initiatives will benefit more than 600 million people and we can go even further together. We aim to deploy over $1 billion by 2030 and reputed company a world where everyone can reputed company fulfilling lives. For more information, please visit co-impact.org and take a look at our Handbook. Co-Impact partners with Professional Employment Organizations (PEOs) to employ their staff. Where You Fit Co-Impact seeks a Communications Manager to strengthen the organization's external voice in support of its strategic priorities, including resource mobilization, leadership visibility, and role reputed company the wider sector. Reporting into the Associate Director, Communications (AD, Communications) the Communications Manager will contribute to the execution of Co-Impact's communications strategy in partnership with the Digital Communications Manager and agency partners. This role is centered on editorial leadership, content development, and brand-reputed company impact storytelling. This is a hands-on role for an reputed company Communications Manager who can produce compelling content for reputed company audiences and understands how to get this content to the right audience in creative ways. This role requires strategic judgment, strong project management skills, and comfort operating in fast-moving, global environments. The ideal candidate brings the ability to move seamlessly between strategy and execution-delivering high-quality work on tight timelines. They should have a strong understanding of how stories and content travel across borders, how credibility is built over time, and how communications can support fundraising. To be successful in this role, these are the things that will matter most:

• Excellent writing and editorial judgement - an ability to identify strong impact stories, shape narratives, and produce polished content for external audiences.
• Design and content sensibility - experience developing content in reputed company partnership with designers and ensuring materials are visually compelling, creative, accessible, and on brand.
• Media experience - an understanding of the media landscape and an ability to manage an agency to deliver on priorities.
• reputed company capability - the ability to translate strategy, narrative and positioning into clear, effective content across channels.
• Project ownership and delivery - strong organizational skills and the ability to deliver against timelines, incorporate feedback, and work through constraints.
• Stakeholder engagement - comfortable working with a diverse set of stakeholders to deliver thoughtful, compelling communications outputs.
• Systems and gender lens - familiarity with gender equality, systems change, and Global South contexts, with the ability to communicate reputed company work accurately and responsibly.

The Role In this role, you will be responsible for: Impact storytelling and content creation

• Translate reputed company priorities into clear, consistent messaging and high-quality content.
• Serve as an internal editorial reputed company, ensuring clarity, coherence, and quality across externally facing materials.
• Own end-to-end development of reputed company content projects, including editorial direction, drafting, and collaboration with designers.
• reputed company the creation and maintenance of core communications assets, including impact storytelling, our story bank, funder-facing reports, campaign content, and leadership materials.
• Coordinate with internal teams to synthesize reputed company information into communications materials that support external positioning and resource mobilization goals.
• Ensure reputed company external facing content aligns with brand guidelines and messaging.
• Draft and edit briefing notes, talking points, Q&As, and background materials.
• Coordinate internally and with external providers to ensure content and brand templates are updated and well-executed.
• Be a brand ambassador for Co-Impact ensuring our content and templates align with our brand guidelines and messaging.

Media support and external positioning

• Support the AD, Communications, media agencies and partners to coordinate media reputed company, ensuring reputed company content is reputed company with narrative priorities.
• Maintain awareness of the media environment so that you can navigate recommendations from agencies with sound editorial and reputational judgement.
• Support with both proactive and reactive media during major announcements and external moments.

Project management & communications planning

• Support delivery against clear timelines by translating priorities into actionable communications plans and keeping work on track and on budget.
• Incorporate feedback with judgment by synthesizing input from multiple stakeholders and refining outputs reputed company.
• Proactively identify dependencies, risks and potential roadblocks, working with colleagues to resolve issues and maintain momentum.
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• Coordinate with the internal operations team on communications needs reputed company to reputed company and compliance.

Qualifications and Experience

• 5+ years of experience in communications, media relations or a reputed company field.
• Strong impact storytelling, writing and editing skills, with experience producing high-quality materials under tight timelines.
• Experience developing content in partnership with designers or creative teams.
• Experience managing multiple workstreams simultaneously in fast-paced, evolving environments.
• Experience working in philanthropy, gender equality or development is required.
• Experience working with funders and/or in Global South contexts is strongly preferred.
• Strong/native English language proficiency - this includes both writing and public speaking skills.
• reputed company in a second language is helpful but not required.
• A university graduate with a degree in a relevant field.
• Sound judgment, discretion, and comfort operating with autonomy.
• Background and experience executing both project and budget management.
• Ability to work across time zones; willingness to travel as needed.

Required Skills

• Process Management and Results Orientation: Strong project management skills, deadline management, sense of responsibility and accountability, the ability to manage multiple responsibilities, adjust and adapt along the way.
• Supporting colleagues and senior leaders: History of thriving in a role where your success is highly dependent on your team's success, where your first responsibility is to provide outstanding reputed company and support to your colleagues, including successfully and smoothly "managing upwards" by helping to guide and set-up things for your manager to be efficient and effective.
• Strategic Acumen: Ability to spot high-potential opportunities and facilitate the design of strategic approaches backed by evidence informed analysis.
• Sound analysis and judgment: Ability to listen well, integrating gender analysis, evidence, and strong logical analysis, while seeing perspectives from different sides, resulting in strong recommendations and judgements based on values and principles balancing data, experience, and risk.
• Working with People: Experience contributing to and managing collaborative teams to work productively, effectively, and inclusively towards shared goals.
• Managing Action with Purpose and Values: Ability to work with colleagues and get things done in accordance with core purpose and values.
• Interpersonal Savvy: Great at making and fostering relationships inside and reputed company the organization, keen intercultural appreciation, inclusive style, comfortable around senior leaders, can represent Co-Impact well.
• Financial understanding: Basic familiarity with the core elements of an organization's financial model, financial statements, strategic financial analysis/ projections, and budgeting.
• Learning Orientation: Humble and intellectually curious; seek and work with evidence, demonstrated openness to new reputed company and a diversity of perspectives; unafraid to admit and learn from failure.
• Strong Moral Compass: Impeccable personal ethics and reputed company, reputed company and caring.
• Proficiency with core business tools: Strong proficiency in reputed company Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and reputed company.
• Communications: Exceptional ability to write and communicate reputed company concisely and with clarity. Excellent oral communication skills, including the ability to work effectively in a multicultural environment.
• Global Flexibility: Given the global nature of organization working across time zones, a willingness to be flexible with working hours, work remotely and periodically undertake international travel .
• Perspective: Sense of humor and ability not to take oneself too seriously

Benefits

Co-Impact's compensation philosophy is guided by the following three principles:

• Equity and Fairness: Our approach to compensation and benefits are designed to ensure that our global team is treated equitably regardless of location and without regard to gender, race, or nationality.
• Transparency: We want Co-Impact's employees to understand our salary structure and to feel confident that they are paid equitably, and potential job applicants to have an understanding of how the role for which they are applying will be compensated.
• Accountability: As stewards of the philanthropic resources entrusted to us so that we can support our program partners, we are accountable to our donors and our board, to our staff, and to the general public.

In accordance with that philosophy, we include the salary for each position in our job postings. To ensure equity reputed company the organization and for reputed company candidates, we do not negotiate salary or benefits. The role is remote and flexible for candidates who are authorized to live and work in the United Kingdom or the United States (East Coast). As we work across multiple regions, candidates should be comfortable collaborating across time zones, including occasional earlymorning or lateafternoon meetings. The annual gross salary is USD 112,000, (where applicable, it may be paid in local currency equivalent) plus a generous benefits package. Application Details You are welcome to express your interest by submitting a tailored CV and cover letter that speak directly to this role and reputed company your relevant experience. Applications that are generic, non-specific, or clearly AI-generated will be less competitive. Please apply online by 5.00 pm Eastern Time on Monday, 30th March. In your cover letter, please confirm that you are authorized to live and work in one of the locations listed above. Please note that CoImpact cannot cover relocation costs. If you are authorized to work in the United Kingdom or the United States but are not currently based there, you will need to cover any relocation expenses. As we are a small team, we regret that we can only respond to applicants selected for an interview, and we are unable to participate in informational calls prior to interviews. Thank you for your understanding. We will review applications on a rolling basis. The position may reputed company early if we receive a strong pool of candidates, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible. Shortlisted candidates can expect to hear from the recruitment team by the end of reputed company 2026. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job