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The Atlantic Council is seeking a director of strategic communications to lead the organization’s media outreach and communications strategy and to serve as a member of the broader Engagement team’s leadership.
The director will manage the Atlantic Council’s media profile, which has risen rapidly in recent years—ranking among those of the world’s top think tanks. With a growing body of innovative editorial work and high-profile newsmaker events, the Council is cited daily by the world’s leading news outlets. The director is responsible for advancing the Council’s mission by amplifying its expertise, events, and publications through earned US and international media coverage and by coordinating external communications efforts and campaigns across the institution.
The director will oversee a creative, hard-working, and collegial team that has helped make the Atlantic Council a go-to source of expertise and groundbreaking research for policymakers, the media, and global stakeholders.
The director of strategic communications will bring to the role experience working with domestic and international media in a fluid environment. The director will report to the Atlantic Council’s senior editorial director and will work collaboratively with the Council’s digital, editorial, and event production teams, along with the Council’s executive office and its sixteen programs and centers.
This position is based in our Washington, DC headquarters on a hybrid schedule. Pay is commensurate with experience, education, and organizational equity, with offers starting at $130,000.
Job Responsibilities
Strategic Communications
Lead the Atlantic Council’s overall approach to external media, as spokesperson, strategist, and advocate
Define and create for the Council a prominent role in its target communities and markets, and with its primary media channels, to deliver on the organization’s mission of “shaping the global future together”
Serve as a lead communications representative at the outset of major new Council initiatives to define a holistic communications framework and develop strategy and tactics
Lead drafting of comprehensive communications plans for programs at the outset of significant new efforts
Oversee long-term communications planning for the Council’s programs and centers
Work closely with each program and center to define programmatic goals and define a corresponding strategy
Manage Council-wide communications calendar—including Atlantic Council and external global events—to enhance the organization’s public profile around key moments
Create and develop the Council’s strategy toward paid media, working with others
Lead and expand the Council’s evolving portfolio of media partnerships
Media Relations
Manage the Atlantic Council’s media relations operation, staff, partners, and vendors
Manage and build relationships with reporters, producers, and editors at key domestic and international media outlets
Establish Council experts as go-to media sources
Lead efforts to rapidly respond to breaking developments around the world by inserting Council expert views in the news cycle when they’re most relevant, working closely with colleagues across the Engagement team and the organization as a whole
Serve as the primary point of contact for crisis communications and rapid response scenarios
Generate media partnerships to enhance the visibility of Council events and initiatives, and coordinate the organization’s strategy toward media moderators and panelists
Edit and place opinion columns in leading media outlets
Train staff on best practices for engaging with print, digital, and broadcast media
Full Time
$151k-194k (estimate)
01/22/2024
05/15/2024
atlanticcouncil.org
Washington, DC
500 - 1,000
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