Senior Communications Officer – North America (Digital Strategy & Campaigns)

Responsibilities

• Work across communications, federal government relations, and program teams to align digital efforts with broader advocacy, policy, and narrative goals.
• Monitor emerging digital trends, platforms, and audience behaviors to identify new partners and opportunities, translating insights into recommendations that strengthen the foundation's digital communications strategy in the U.S. and Canada.
• Work with key stakeholders to define measurable campaign objectives, target audiences, and digital strategies, including new partnerships, to reach them.
• Pilot creative approaches to digital storytelling, including partnerships with new organizations, content creators, and nontraditional media platforms.
• Identify, evaluate, and manage agencies, consultants, creators, and digital vendors supporting campaign development and execution.
• Develop campaign concepts that partners, grantees, and validators can adopt and amplify across their networks.
• Partner with insights teams and vendors to apply audience research and performance data to targeting, messaging, and channel strategy, using a test-and-learn approach to refine strategies, improve effectiveness, and share key learnings.
• Support partners and grantees in understanding and applying the latest digital trends to strengthen their own communications efforts.
• Model behaviors that support an inclusive culture, escalating issues promptly to appropriate stakeholders

Requirements

• Deep understanding of the U.S. digital, media, and cultural landscape, with the ability to anticipate trends and translate them into forward-looking communications strategies.
• Extensive experience leading digital communications strategy for advocacy organizations or political campaigns in the United States, with a track record of shaping high-impact, national or multi-state efforts.
• Experience developing and managing partnerships with influencers, creators, and external organizations to extend reach and drive coordinated campaign impact.
• Demonstrated expertise in designing and executing integrated, audience-first digital campaigns that influence perception, mobilize stakeholders, and drive measurable results.
• Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives involving multiple internal and external stakeholders, including vendors, with strong project management and execution discipline.
• Comfort with complexity and ambiguity, paired with strong judgment and strategic decision-making.
• Experience operating in nonprofit, advocacy, political, or other mission-driven environments, with a strong understanding of how communications drives policy and public engagement outcomes.
• Ability to travel up to 20% domestic and international
• Must have unrestricted work authorization in the country where this position is located.

Benefits

• comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums
• generous paid time off
• paid family leave
• foundation-paid retirement contribution
• regional holidays
• opportunities to engage in several employee communities
• As a workplace, we’re committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally