Principal, Executive Communications

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Wikimedia Foundation

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2003

🤝 Non-profit

📚 Education

📱 Media

💰 $2.5M Grant on 2019-09

Non-profit • Education • Media

Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to the growth, development, and distribution of free, multilingual content. It provides the essential infrastructure for free knowledge, including hosting Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that is created, edited, and verified by a global community of volunteers. Supported primarily through donations, Wikimedia Foundation promotes collaborative projects that aim to share knowledge reflecting human diversity and strives to protect everyone's right to access free and open knowledge.

📋 Description

• Serve as the primary communications partner to the Wikimedia Foundation CEO, providing strategic counsel and direct support across internal and external communications • Build a comprehensive engagement strategy for multiple complex stakeholder groups • Develop, shape, and implement a communications strategy for the CEO in collaboration with media relations, internal communications, and the Chief of Staff • Support external communications for other executive team members and the Board of Trustees • Identify, shape, and execute thought leadership opportunities for the CEO and other executives • Secure and prepare leaders for public speaking and media engagements • Develop speeches, remarks, talking points, social media posts, internal communications, briefing documents, and blogs • Develop narratives and messaging strategies that increase awareness and understanding of Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects • Write and ghostwrite speeches, op-eds, quotes, external statements, blog posts, and staff emails from the CEO • Guide executive social media strategy across channels including LinkedIn and TikTok • Seek earned media opportunities and speaking engagements; build public presence for Foundation leadership • Leverage reporter and conference organizer relationships to identify publications and speaking venues • Collaborate across departments, teams, volunteer communities, and global communications channels

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of professional experience in communications, including several years supporting C-level executives • Excellent verbal communication and writing skills, with ability to adapt communications for different stakeholders • Ability to engage with senior leadership-level presence and communicate Wikimedia Foundation work at multiple levels • Experience navigating crisis communications and preparing executives for sensitive or rapidly evolving situations • Proven ability to pitch stories, engage press, and manage key relationships • Experience working with reporters, staffing media interviews, and shaping articles • Experience developing social media strategies customized for channels such as LinkedIn and TikTok • Strong project management skills and ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines • Experience maintaining systems and documentation for projects with multiple stakeholders • Willingness to travel as needed, potentially 3–5 trips per year, and work across time zones • Ability to work with colleagues who do not have English as their primary language • Preference for candidates based in the Eastern Time zone • Preference for candidates with Wikimedia community involvement or Wikimedia project editing experience • Non-US employees must have current work authorization in their location

🏖️ Benefits

• Salary adjusted to the country of hire for applicants outside the US • Remote-first work arrangement • Flexible work across time zones as needed to support global stakeholders and executive communications • Potential for 3–5 trips per year • Equal opportunity, inclusive, and equitable workplace • Employer of Record (EOR) hiring for non-US employees • Accommodation assistance during the application process for qualified applicants with disabilities