Head of Media

Responsibilities

• Strategy Setting: Creating and reporting against an annual media strategy.
• Strategy Setting: Providing strategic guidance that enables CEA to navigate high-stakes reputational risks or leverage positive opportunities.
• Strategy Setting: Shaping public discourse around effective altruism through targeted media and PR activities.
• Strategy Setting: Setting the strategic direction on opportunities for positive coverage, including at CEA’s flagship EA Global events.
• Strategy Setting: Evaluating activities and reporting against brand goals.
• Stakeholder Relationship Management: Building and maintaining trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across the ecosystem, including key spokespeople and major funders.
• Stakeholder Relationship Management: Identifying and cultivating promising media talent and new thought leaders within the EA community.
• Stakeholder Relationship Management: Work with EA Funds grantees and other partners on media-facing communications.
• Stakeholder Relationship Management: Establishing and maintaining media relationships through outreach, networking, meetings and regular contact.
• Reputation Management: Monitoring and mitigating against reputational risks to CEA and the broader EA community.

Requirements

• You’ve led proactive and reactive media strategies for high-profile organizations or brands, and you know how to reach and engage a wide range of audiences.
• You can build and leverage strong relationships with journalists to land placements, correct misrepresentations, and deliver effective campaigns.
• You’ve handled high-stakes media situations and led crisis communications.
• You’ve built, developed, and managed remote teams and external partners, including agencies and consultants on media and influencer campaigns. You have a clear vision for expanding CEA’s media function.
• You work well under pressure, can juggle multiple, often conflicting, priorities, and enjoy fast-paced, ambiguous environments where you set your own direction.
• You’re familiar with the principles and ideas of effective altruism, or can quickly develop a nuanced understanding of the ecosystem. You’re excited to help more people understand EA accurately and apply its principles in their own lives.
• You must already have the right to work in the US; we can't sponsor visas for this role.

Preferred

• Bonus: Are well-versed in the US political landscape and appreciate how it affects the work of CEA as a non-partisan non-profit.

Benefits

• Benefits globally include private health insurance, flexible work hours, a $6,000 annual professional development allowance, a $6,000 mental health support allowance, extended parental leave, ergonomic equipment, 25 days of paid vacation, and more.
• This role will involve travel. There are likely four trips annually to attend team retreats and other events, including several international trips.