Global Director – Strategic, Political Communications

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🌐 Belgium, United Kingdom, +3 more countries – Remote

🇧🇪 Belgium – Remote 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote 🇳🇱 Netherlands – Remote 🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇭 Switzerland – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🗣️ Communications

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our common home

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2022

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

Non-profit • Social Impact

our common home is a non-profit organization that strengthens support for environmental protection by empowering local communities and civic institutions. It supports local initiatives, develops durable solutions aligned with citizens' priorities, builds leadership, and provides rigorous research, monitoring, and capacity-building to enable inclusive environmental action across countries. The organization partners with like-minded groups, emphasizes community-led solutions, and engages decision-makers to advance policies consistent with shared values.

📋 Description

• Build and lead OCH's central strategic communications and public-influence function • Shape the team, external support and operating model required for the build phase • Define shared media-engagement language, standards, frameworks and practical tools for country teams • Work directly with country teams to develop strategies, then move into coaching and advisory support • Develop a network-wide spokesperson methodology • Build a rapid-response capability for breaking stories • Create shared infrastructure for narrative testing, media monitoring, intelligence gathering and cross-network learning • Position OCH's voices, stories and data for an AI-shaped media environment • Help country teams build relationships with outlets, validators, think tanks, creators and platforms • Lead crisis-response protocols • Manage a budget focused on developing capacity and skills across the network • Plan the handover from central support to a lighter-touch model • Report to the Chief Strategy Officer and work closely with the CEO • Shape the team, external support and budget in discussion with the CEO and Chief Strategy Officer

🎯 Requirements

• Senior strategic communications judgement • Recent, hands-on experience of placing stories, developing spokespeople, managing narratives and working with journalists, editors, creators or platforms at pace • Ability to create infrastructure from scratch without an established playbook • Commitment to developing others' capability rather than defaulting to doing the work personally • Strong understanding of centre-right and conservative landscapes • Ability to work across many country contexts with cultural judgement to adapt without losing coherence • Current, practical interest in how AI is reshaping information production, discovery and trust • Ability to set clear standards, challenge when needed, and let country teams own their work • Professional proficiency in English (CEFR C2 or equivalent) • Desirable: experience of building, spinning out or scaling a new entity, function or practice • Desirable: experience of multi-country civil-society networks, international NGOs or politically diverse coalitions • Desirable: experience in climate, environment, energy, land, rural affairs or adjacent public-policy debates • Desirable: experience working with philanthropic funders, boards or senior political stakeholders

🏖️ Benefits

• A competitive remuneration package • Health insurance • Pension contributions • Other benefits appropriate to the successful candidate's location