Knowledge and Communications Lead

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🕒 4 days ago

🦁 Africa – Remote

💵 $45k - $61.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🗣️ Communications

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YLabs

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11 - 50 employees

💼 Consulting

🍽️ Food & Beverage

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Food & Beverage • Marketing

YLabs is a leading global design and research organization focused on amplifying youth power, agency, and opportunity. Founded in 2016 at the Harvard Innovation Lab, YLabs operates in Sub Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Central America, crafting solutions to address critical challenges related to young people's health and wellbeing, climate resilience, and economic opportunities. The team comprises physicians, designers, economists, developers, public health professionals, and educators, leveraging a human-centered design approach combined with adolescent health expertise to tackle global issues affecting youth.

📋 Description

• Drive the narrative for a major multi-year partnership with a global foundation • Attend partner calls, capture the substance, and produce content without re-briefing • Turn live thinking into decks, briefs, blogs, and reports on quick timelines • Draft, edit, and finalize research decks, leadership summary reports, quarterly and annual reports, and toolkit content • Own and evolve the partnership’s core narrative across countries and workstreams • Codify how the work is described for leadership and partners • Maintain a consistent voice across the portfolio and train project teams to use it • Read, review, and write RFPs, experiment design documents, research protocols, and playbooks • Edit dense internal documents for clarity, structure, and audience relevance • Provide content architecture for reports, decks, and toolkits • Work with the Graphic Designer to define templates and a short style guide • Build a reusable library of core language, descriptions, and framing • Collaborate with project leads, researchers, and designers to ensure content is accurate, timely, and aligned

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of 7 years of professional experience in strategic communications, editorial, knowledge translation, or technical writing • At least 3 years of experience in international development, philanthropy, or social impact • Demonstrated experience distilling complex research, program models, or technical material into clear content for senior audiences • Portfolio showing reports, decks, briefs, blogs, and at least one technical or research-based document • Experience working hand in hand with researchers, designers, or program teams • Experience building and maintaining a consistent voice across multiple products or teams • Exceptional written English, with the ability to write fast without losing quality • Comfort with ambiguity and shifting priorities across a live portfolio • Advanced understanding of strategic communication and content strategy • Editorial judgment in cutting, restructuring, and positioning content • Technical fluency with research protocols, experiment designs, and RFPs • Ability to operate independently on complex assignments • Ability to collaborate across research, design, and program teams • Ability to manage input from multiple stakeholders • Ability to train and involve others in strategic communication • Ability to model culturally competent JEDI practices and address personal and structural biases • Nice to have: experience with foundation or institutional funder audiences • Nice to have: experience with design research, human-centered design, or experimentation methodologies • Nice to have: experience writing or reviewing RFPs and proposals • Nice to have: experience living and working in sub-Saharan Africa • Must be willing to travel up to 50% of the time • All offers are conditional on satisfactory background check and criminal record clearances

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote role • Salary paid in the local currency of the staff member’s permanent work location • Possibility of contract extension beyond the initial 12-month term • Up to 50% travel for field sprints and stakeholder alignment