Senior Donor Communications Officer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Argentina, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Create regional communication strategies, priorities, messaging frameworks, and content plans that align with fundraising and conservation goals.

• Provide guidance to Development colleagues, conservation teams, and regional leaders regarding donor positioning, narrative strategies, audience needs, and communication opportunities.

• Address complex messaging challenges and reconcile differing stakeholder inputs.

• Represent Donor Communications in regional, global, and cross-functional initiatives, meetings, and planning processes.

• Lead communication efforts for donor cultivation, solicitation, stewardship, campaigns, and major or principal gift opportunities.

• Develop or oversee funding proposals, concept notes, regional and country overviews, materials for donor visits, stewardship reports, campaign collateral, presentations, impact reports, and leadership messages.

• Convert complex conservation, financial, and programmatic information into accurate, engaging narratives centered on donors.

• Tailor messaging to fit donor interests, cultural contexts, audience needs, and stages of fundraising relationships.

• Manage intricate communication initiatives from briefing and strategy development to stakeholder alignment, execution, review, delivery, and evaluation.

• Establish objectives, target audiences, deliverables, timelines, responsibilities, risks, and trade-offs.

• Coordinate contributions across different countries, functions, and levels of seniority in a matrixed environment.

• Facilitate decision-making and sustain momentum when competing priorities arise.

• Enhance editorial standards, ensure regional messaging consistency, improve multilingual content practices, and streamline donor communication workflows.

• Provide mentorship, constructive feedback, and subject-matter expertise.

• Refine content production, tools, systems, and processes.

• Oversee relevant vendor relationships and support training and knowledge sharing.

• Encourage effective use of digital collaboration tools and AI-assisted content solutions while ensuring accuracy and adherence to institutional standards.

• Develop and review content in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

• Collaborate with colleagues in Brazil and other Latin American markets.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Communications, Journalism, Marketing, Philanthropy, International Affairs, Conservation, or a related field.

• An equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience may be considered.

• A minimum of 5 to 7 years of relevant experience in donor communications, fundraising communications, strategic communications, or a related field.

• Proven experience in developing audience-focused communications that support fundraising, persuasive engagement, campaigns, or other organizational objectives.

• Experience in leading complex cross-functional, regional, or multi-country projects from planning through to delivery.

• Demonstrated ability to advise senior stakeholders, influence without direct authority, and align competing priorities.

• Experience in producing proposals, presentations, reports, campaign materials, and strategic narratives.

• Proficient in strategic communications planning and narrative development.

• Skilled in fundraising communications, donor engagement, and persuasive writing.

• Strong writing, editing, synthesis, and storytelling abilities.

• Capable of interpreting scientific, conservation, financial, and programmatic information.

• Proficient in project management, prioritization, and delivery across multiple workstreams.

• Effective stakeholder management and facilitation skills in matrixed organizations.

• Experience in editorial quality assurance and multilingual content coordination.

• Familiarity with content management systems, project management platforms, digital storytelling, and AI-assisted content tools is preferred.

• Professional fluency in English with exceptional writing, editing, and verbal communication skills.

• Professional fluency in Spanish with strong writing, editing, and verbal communication skills.

• Advanced working proficiency in Portuguese, sufficient for understanding discussions, participating in meetings, and collaborating directly with Portuguese-speaking colleagues, particularly in Brazil.

🏝️ Benefits

• Engaging, mission-driven work with a global organization focused on conserving nature and tackling interconnected environmental challenges.

• Regional impact across various Latin American countries and cultural contexts.

• Strategic influence in major and principal gift fundraising communications.

• Professional independence in a senior individual contributor role.

• Opportunities for multidisciplinary collaboration with Development, conservation, communications, and regional leadership teams.

• Option for remote work from an approved location in Argentina or Mexico.

• Equal Opportunity Employer.

• Accommodations available in the application process for qualified individuals with disabilities.