Job Description
Summary
Lead high-impact digital content strategy and production for a global nonprofit, advancing advocacy and brand goals.
Join the world's largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity. We are seeking a **Senior Communications Officer – Content** for a **12-month limited-term position** within our Brand, Editorial, and Content (BEC) team. This role focuses on shaping and delivering high-impact digital content and live activations to advance the foundation’s advocacy, brand, and storytelling goals globally.
- *Your Role:**
- *Key Responsibilities:**
- Lead end-to-end content development for digital campaigns, executive voice, and storytelling moments, aligning with brand and advocacy priorities.
- Serve as a hands-on producer: travel internationally (up to 25%) to capture stories, conduct interviews, and lead on-site production teams.
- Commission and create high-performing content for diverse digital and social platforms.
- Translate complex strategies (e.g., maternal, newborn, child health) into compelling creative briefs and narratives for diverse audiences.
- Guide content through the full production process from ideation to publication, ensuring quality and consistency.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure content is grounded in audience insights and measurement.
- Support live storytelling activations (panel events, screenings, campaign launches).
- Manage creative vendor relationships, project budgets, and production timelines efficiently.
- *What You'll Bring:**
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Communications, Multimedia, Journalism, Marketing, or a related field.
- 7+ years of professional experience in communications, with a strong emphasis on content production and digital media.
- Proven portfolio of visual or written work and high-impact social content.
- Demonstrated experience leading end-to-end content production, including creative direction, on-location fieldwork, and post-production.
- Proficiency in developing cross-channel content strategies and creative briefs, particularly for global health or development topics.
- Strong understanding of digital and social platforms (Instagram, TikTok, X, LinkedIn, YouTube) and what drives reach, engagement, and performance.
- Experience working with creative vendors, agencies, or production teams to deliver high-quality content on time and within budget.
- Knowledge of global health and development issues (e.g., maternal, newborn, and child health) with the ability to convey them accessibly.
- Excellent verbal and written communication, deep listening, and interpersonal skills, especially when working with sensitive stories.
- Background in nonprofit, public health, government, or advocacy communications preferred; global or cross-cultural experience highly valued.
- Ability to travel up to 25% domestically and internationally.
- *Salary Range:** $169,700 - $254,500 USD Annual. (Seattle/Washington D.C. range: $185,000 - $277,400 USD). Actual placement depends on skills, experience, and expertise.
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is an American private foundation founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates. It is one of the largest private foundations in the world, with a mission to reduce inequity around the world. The foundation works to improve health, reduce poverty, and expand access to opportunity in the developing world, and to improve education and economic opportunity in the United States.