• As Director of Strategic Communications, you will lead a strong, values-driven team to drive high-quality execution across all types of content including written, visual, and multimedia. You will be responsible for elevating Namati’s voice in public conversations on climate and democracy, generating meaningful relationships with media and global changemakers, and guiding public-facing strategy for campaigns, thought leadership, and product launches. This role requires balancing decentralized program communications with cohesive organizational storytelling that reflects our collective voice and values. The ideal candidate will bring vision, strategic clarity, and disciplined execution, anchored by direct engagement (and regular travel) with our teams and allies globally.

Who You Are

• A driver of cohesion and alignment. You see connections others miss–across programs, regions, and issues–and can turn them into a cohesive strategy and story that drives collective impact.
• A collaborator and coach. You lead with humility, confidence, and empathy. You bring out the best in others, and foster a culture of accountability, curiosity, and joy.
• A storyteller with moral conviction. You bring heart and clarity to complex issues and translate grassroots realities for global audiences without losing nuance.
• Media savvy and digitally fluent. You understand what drives media coverage and how to sustain engagement across digital platforms.
• A grounded strategist. You value travel for what it enables: trust building with teams, deeper insight into local realities and external opportunities, and for crafting strategy that is informed by and responsive to frontline work. You balance this with care for climate impact, making thoughtful choices about when and how to travel.

Responsibilities

Lead a global strategy grounded in local realities

• Refine and advance a global communications strategy that aligns with Namati’s 2024-2028 goals, grounded in program realities and responsive to global opportunities.
• Set and drive bold visibility goals that position Namati and the Grassroots Justice Network as leading voices in the global democracy and climate space, including tailored strategies for key audiences such as policy makers, funders, businesses, and global institutions. 
• Develop and lead strategic initiatives to grow the movement of grassroots justice advocates and its supporters, such as launching a multimedia magazine or a signature global event for grassroots justice. 
• Collaborate closely with cross-cutting and country program teams to shape the storyline, framing, and presentation of new learning and research about legal empowerment and grassroots justice, ensuring it resonates with diverse audiences and supports the Grassroots Justice Network Academy’s goals.

Manage a high-performing team with a strong editorial culture

• Lead and inspire a globally distributed communications team, fostering a culture of excellence, creativity, and accountability.
• Set the standard for high-impact writing, personally authoring high-stakes content such as organizational statements, while guiding teams to craft effective written work that reflects Namati’s values and advances strategic goals.
• Provide high-level content leadership that elevates quality and clarity, while empowering team members to own and deliver consistently excellent work.
• Ensure that systems for collaboration, learning, and performance tracking are aligned with strategic goals–even when you are not in the weeds day-to-day.

Expand media relations and global visibility

• Cultivate and manage high-value relationships with journalists, influencers, high-profile advocates, and narrative leaders to amplify Namati’s work and mission.
• Serve as a senior spokesperson for the organization, as well as coaching other colleagues – including community paralegals, program leads, and executive leadership – to speak and write publicly with confidence and clarity.
• Lead media strategy and crisis communications, including reputational risk anticipation and response planning.
• Guide the public positioning of Namati’s CEO and executive team, including promotion of the CEO’s forthcoming book.

Drive campaigns, marketing, and strategic engagement

• Shape strategy and public narrative for time-bound campaigns and advocacy surges that command public attention, in collaboration with Namati teams and external partners.
• Partner with our Resource Mobilization team to develop content and messaging that resonates with institutional funders and individual donors, and to secure dedicated funding for strategic communications work.
• Lead audience-specific marketing strategy for the Grassroots Justice Network Academy, including marketing for income-generating products.
• Build public engagement efforts that go beyond visibility, inviting action, solidarity, and participation in the movement for grassroots justice from diverse audiences–including small donors and everyday people using the law to solve problems.