Director of Communications

Role

We are looking for a values-aligned communications professional to join our team and help advance our vision of a world where people work under safe, fair, and legal conditions. This position will be central to the organization’s global efforts to build awareness, understanding, and action on labor rights issues across the public, private, and civil society sectors.

The Director of Communications will be a passionate team builder, eager to work with Verité’s dedicated staff and external stakeholders to cultivate and advance the organization’s public profile and influence with target audiences, including companies, governments, civil society organizations, media, and consumers. They will lead Verité’s global communications strategy and be responsible for external communications and content marketing across multiple platforms and channels.

Responsibilities

• Support Verité’s vision and work to advance labor rights in global supply chains by collaboratively developing and implementing a global communications strategy designed to increase the organization’s visibility, advance thought leadership, and support the organization’s policy and advocacy goals.
• Champion communications internally as an important and strategic way to advance the organization’s mission and goals. This includes working with the leadership team to inform organization-wide strategy and decisions and collaborating with program staff to help them appreciate the importance of effectively capturing and sharing key insights with external audiences.
• Develop and leverage thought leadership opportunities that enhance the organization’s presence and value across all audiences. This includes identifying, developing, pitching, and placing appropriate media opportunities that amplify the organization’s vision, mission, and impact.
• Manage the communications team, including staff and external technical and design resources as needed.
• Build and manage relationships, internally, with external stakeholders, and with aligned organizations and individuals who can help advance Verité’s mission.
• Manage, cultivate, and deploy the organization’s reputation and voice.
• Oversee the production of multimedia for communications and marketing campaigns.
• Work closely with Verité’s business development team to create materials and messaging to support their work.
• Other related duties as assigned.

Required qualifications

• A commitment to the changes needed to create just and equitable working conditions around the world, and to working closely and collaboratively with clients and colleagues to achieve this change.
• Minimum of seven years of relevant professional experience developing and implementing effective communications strategies for multiple audiences and across various channels, demonstrating progressively more responsibility and impact over time.
• Experience translating complex social change challenges and activities (preferably those related to labor, human rights, and/or supply chains) into accessible communications for diverse audiences.
• Advanced knowledge of strategic communications best practices, particularly in strategic messaging, global reputation management, and media relations.
• Enthusiasm, maturity, and proven ability to position communications discussions at both strategic and tactical levels within an organization and in partner and client settings.
• Strong English language writing and editing skills.
• Ability to interpret content performance data and generate actionable insights.
• Strong client service skills, with proven ability to forge effective working relationships and influence stakeholders.
• Demonstrated organizational and project management skills, and attention to detail.
• Self-driven and able to work effectively both independently and collaboratively as part of multiple teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Must have permanent authorization to work in the United States without the need for current or future employer sponsorship.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with design software including Adobe Creative Suite, Canva, and Infogram; or with eLearning software including Articulate Rise and Storyline, Adobe Captivate, and Learn.
• Bachelor’s degree in journalism, marketing, communications, or a field relevant to Verité’s work. Relevant experience may be considered a substitute for education.
• Demonstrates the ability to responsibly and effectively leverage artificial intelligence (AI) tools to enhance communications strategy.
• Experience supervising a team.
• Strong preference for fluency in written communication in Spanish. Fluency in written French or Portuguese also of value.

Qualifications for all Verité positions

• Demonstrates strong personal commitment to Verité's mission or related social justice objectives in human rights, labor issues, international law, or corporate social responsibility.
• Demonstrates professional competency and/or personal experience thinking and working effectively across boundaries. *
• Demonstrates sensitivity and competency engaging with the diverse marginalized populations impacted by Verité’s mission around the world.
• Personal reliability and commitment to organizational success.
• Maintains confidentiality in communications, as appropriate.