Strategic Communications Officer, Europe

London, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own and orchestrate Open Society’s regional communications, shaping narratives, managing risk and crises, and driving strategic media engagement to advance institutional priorities and public discourse.

  • Coordinate cross-portfolio messaging and policy-focused thought leadership with top-tier regional and international media.
  • Lead risk assessment, crisis response, and reputational mitigation to protect the organization’s values and influence.
  • Design integrated content and media activities across digital and print platforms, aligning audiences, channels, and outputs with strategy.

Job Description

  • Develop and execute high-impact, regionally grounded communications strategies aligned with institutional priorities.
  • Shape compelling organizational narratives and positioning on issues central to Open Society’s mission;
  • Lead proactive risk assessment and reputational strategy, anticipating communications and media risks across the region and develops and executes mitigation strategies; serves as the lead during crisis situations, ensuring values-aligned response management.
  • Shape and drive strategic communications opportunities aligned with institutional priorities—leveraging both real-time news cycles and long-term advocacy opportunities to advance Open Society values, influence public discourse and shape policy relevant narratives.
  • Strategically position key Open Society leadership, experts and thought-leaders across top-tier domestic, regional and international media, cultivating relationships with influential journalist and editorial boards to expand reach, credibility and thought-leadership impact.
  • Author and oversee high-impact written communications, including Op-Eds, policy commentaries, thought-leadership pieces, and other press materials—ensuring clarity, narratives coherence and alignment.
  • Design and lead strategic media engagements, including press briefings, editorial meetings, high level media convenings and background discussions that deepen understanding of Open Society work and priorities.
  • Oversee integrated content strategy and production across digital and print platforms, ensuring strategic coherence, audience targeting and performance impact; manages and coordinates external creative and PR partners to deliver high quality outputs.
  • Co-design and delivers communications trainings for program staff, leadership, and partners to strengthen message discipling, media readiness and narrative alignment across the network.
  • Contribute to global communications leadership initiatives, partnering with communications colleagues across regions to drive cross-portfolio collaboration, institutional consistency and shared strategic objectives across the highly-matrixed global environment.
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Open Society Foundations

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The Open Society Foundations work to build vibrant and inclusive democracies whose governments are accountable to their people. To achieve this mission, we give thousands of grants every year to groups and individuals in over 120 countries that work on the issues we focus on—promoting tolerance, transparency, and open debate. We also engage in strategic human rights litigation and impact investing, while incubating new ideas and engaging directly with governments and policymakers through advocacy to advance positive change. We seek to shape public policies that assure greater fairness in political, legal, and economic systems and safeguard fundamental rights. We build alliances across borders and continents on issues such as corruption and freedom of information. We place a high priority on protecting and improving the lives of people in marginalized communities.The Open Society Foundations were founded by George Soros, one of the world’s foremost philanthropists, who since 1984 has given away $32 billion of a personal fortune made in the financial markets. Interested in learning more about our grants, scholarships and fellowships? Visit https://osf.to/grants.Interested in working for us? Visit https://osf.to/jobs for our open positions. Here on our LinkedIn page, we encourage comments and responses that add new information or value; that are clear, concise, and on-topic; and that are generous and constructive. We like questions and feedback, too! Community guidelines: http://osf.to/communityguidelines Privacy policy: http://osf.to/privacy

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