Director, Communications, Knowledge & Impact

🕒 December 17, 2025

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Mayors Migration Council

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1 - 10 employees

The Mayors Migration Council is a mayor-led coalition that accelerates ambitious global action on migration to create a world where urban migrants, displaced people, and receiving communities can thrive.

📋 Description

• Develop and implement the MMC’s global communications and public affairs strategy, aligned with organizational priorities and geopolitical context. • Lead narrative development, campaign design, and media engagement to position mayors as credible, pragmatic leaders on migration and displacement. • Serve as a senior advisor to mayors and MMC leadership, providing strategic messaging guidance, political risk assessments, and preparation for high-profile engagements, including speeches, talking points, op-eds, briefing notes, and media training. • Lead proactive and reactive media strategies, including press outreach, pitching, journalist relationship management, and coordination of press moments and events. • Oversee MMC’s brand, voice, and messaging architecture, ensuring consistency, quality, and credibility across platforms and products. • Lead crisis and reputational communications in close coordination with the Executive Director and Board, including rapid response and emergency communications as needed. • Oversee the MMC’s digital presence, including website, newsletters, social media, and multimedia content, ensuring regular, high-quality output. • Monitor communications performance and use insights to continuously refine strategy, tactics, and resource allocation. • Provide strategic oversight of the MMC’s knowledge, research, and impact agenda, ensuring alignment with communications, advocacy, and fundraising priorities. • Guide the production of flagship knowledge products, including reports, thematic briefs, impact stories, board materials, and donor-facing content. • Ensure the MMC’s Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) framework is implemented effectively and translated into accessible, compelling narratives. • Oversee coordination with external research partners and evaluators, ensuring findings are timely, credible, and strategically used. • Translate evidence and data into persuasive storytelling that supports MMC’s influence. • Lead, mentor, and support a small team, setting clear priorities, providing strategic direction, and maintaining high standards of quality and delivery. • Manage external consultants and vendors across PR, research, design, and multimedia production. • Oversee the communications and knowledge budget, ensuring resources are deployed effectively and efficiently. • Work closely with MMC program leads, city partners, and institutional funders to ensure communications support organizational goals and partnerships.

🎯 Requirements

• Significant senior experience in communications, public affairs, journalism, international policy, or a related field. • Proven track record advising senior leaders or elected officials on strategic communications, political risk, and reputational management; experience working with or advising city governments preferred. • Exceptional writing, editing, and analytical skills, including demonstrated experience with speeches, op-eds, executive briefs, and high-stakes communications. • Strong media experience, including pitching to and working with national and international outlets; established journalist relationships are a strong asset. • Experience leading communications or advocacy campaigns with measurable impact. • Ability to translate complex policy, research, and data into clear, compelling messages for diverse audiences. • Demonstrated experience managing teams and external consultants in fast-paced, dynamic environments. • Strong digital and multimedia literacy across web, social, and visual platforms; familiarity with design and production workflows required (hands-on skills a plus). • Excellent judgment, discretion, and ability to operate calmly and decisively under pressure. • Strong interpersonal and intercultural skills, with a collaborative, solutions-oriented working style. • Deep interest in cities, global affairs, and migration, and strong alignment with the MMC’s mission and values. • Willingness to travel internationally as required. • Fluency in languages other than English is an asset. • Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship.

🏖️ Benefits

• Pay range (New York City): USD $130,000-150,000, commensurate with experience and qualifications. • We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package including health coverage, retirement benefits, paid sick leave, vacation and holidays, and access to professional development resources.