Director of Communications

Axelon

Summary:

Location: Washington, DC

Duration: 6 Months

Work Mode: Part-time - Ideal schedule would be 4 days a week, 5 hours per day.

Responsibilities:

Develop strategic plans and oversee their implementation to promote thought leadership dissemination initiatives (10-12 annually).
Create integrated communication strategies that increase awareness, engagement, and influence among key audiences.
Develop messaging architecture, narrative frameworks, and storytelling strategies that translate complex research, policy issues, and programmatic work into clear, compelling, and audience-specific communications.
Build alignment across the Foundation and enterprise stakeholders, convening cross-functional teams to improve communications processes and drive successful execution of strategic initiatives.
Create communications playbooks, frameworks, and measurement approaches that improve consistency, scalability, and effectiveness across research dissemination, thought leadership marketing, and reputation-building efforts.

Requirements:

Minimum 8 years of experience in strategic communications, thought leadership, public affairs, research communications, content strategy, or a related field.
Demonstrated success translating complex research, data, public policy, or social impact issues into compelling communications and narratives.
Exceptional writing, messaging, storytelling, and stakeholder management skills.
Experience working with nonprofit, philanthropy, advocacy, public affairs, research, or mission-driven organizations preferred.
Bachelor's degree required.

Preferred Skills:

Familiarity with audience engagement, reputation management, media relations, executive communications, and content strategy.
Experience with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.) and Project Management software (e.g., Asana).

Vacancy posted more than 2 months ago

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