Knowledge and Communications Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Africa.

📋 Description

• Lead the storytelling for a significant multi-year collaboration with an international foundation.

• Participate in partner calls, capture key insights, and generate content without needing additional briefings.

• Transform live ideas into presentations, briefs, blogs, and reports within tight timelines.

• Draft, revise, and finalize research presentations, leadership summary reports, quarterly and annual reports, and toolkit materials.

• Take ownership of the partnership’s fundamental narrative across various countries and workstreams.

• Systematize how the work is articulated for leadership and partners.

• Ensure a consistent voice throughout the portfolio and train project teams to adopt it.

• Read, review, and compose RFPs, experiment design documents, research protocols, and playbooks.

• Edit complex internal documents for clarity, organization, and audience relevance.

• Provide content structure for reports, presentations, and toolkits.

• Collaborate with the Graphic Designer to establish templates and a concise style guide.

• Create a reusable library of essential language, descriptions, and framing.

• Work closely with project leads, researchers, and designers to ensure content is accurate, timely, and aligned.

⛳️ Requirements

• At least 7 years of professional experience in strategic communications, editorial work, knowledge translation, or technical writing.

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in international development, philanthropy, or social impact.

• Proven ability to simplify complex research, program models, or technical information into clear content for senior audiences.

• A portfolio that includes reports, presentations, briefs, blogs, and at least one technical or research-focused document.

• Experience collaborating closely with researchers, designers, or program teams.

• Experience in building and sustaining a consistent voice across various products or teams.

• Exceptional written English skills, with the capacity to produce high-quality writing quickly.

• Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to adapt to shifting priorities across a dynamic portfolio.

• Advanced knowledge of strategic communication and content strategy.

• Strong editorial judgment in editing, restructuring, and positioning content.

• Technical proficiency with research protocols, experiment designs, and RFPs.

• Ability to work independently on complex assignments.

• Capability to collaborate across research, design, and program teams.

• Skill in managing input from various stakeholders.

• Ability to train and engage others in strategic communication.

• Ability to demonstrate culturally competent JEDI practices and address personal and systemic biases.

• Preferred: experience with foundation or institutional funder audiences.

• Preferred: experience in design research, human-centered design, or experimentation methodologies.

• Preferred: experience writing or reviewing RFPs and proposals.

• Preferred: experience living and working in sub-Saharan Africa.

• Must be willing to travel up to 50% of the time.

• All offers are contingent on satisfactory background checks and clearances of criminal records.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote position.

• Salary paid in the local currency of the employee’s permanent work location.

• Potential for contract extension beyond the initial 12-month term.

• Up to 50% travel for field sprints and stakeholder alignment.