Who We Are
Co-Impact brings together local changemakers and funders from around the world to make health, education, and economic systems stronger and more inclusive – creating impact that lasts. Our commitment to advancing gender equality and women’s leadership is central to this goal. By focusing on systems, we work at the scale of the problem - dismantling the root causes of inequality that disadvantage hundreds of millions of women, girls and marginalized communities. Spanning five continents, our team identifies partners that will create lasting progress when supported with the resources to work at scale. Pooling funding allows us to provide large, flexible grants and strategic support to locally-rooted partners in Africa, Asia, and Latin America who know their systems best. Our partners' initiatives will benefit more than 600 million people and we can go even further together. We aim to deploy over $1 billion by 2030 and achieve a world where everyone can lead fulfilling lives. For more information, please visit co-impact.org and take a look at our Handbook.
Co-Impact partners with Professional Employment Organizations (PEOs) to employ their staff.
Where You Fit
Co-Impact seeks a Communications Manager to strengthen the organization’s external voice in support of its strategic priorities, including resource mobilization, leadership visibility, and role within the wider sector. Reporting into the Associate Director, Communications (AD, Communications) the Communications Manager will contribute to the execution of Co-Impact’s communications strategy in partnership with the Digital Communications Manager and agency partners. This role is centered on editorial leadership, content development, and brand-aligned impact storytelling. This is a hands-on role for an experienced Communications Manager who can produce compelling content for target audiences and understands how to get this content to the right audience in creative ways.
This role requires strategic judgment, strong project management skills, and comfort operating in fast-moving, global environments. The ideal candidate brings the ability to move seamlessly between strategy and execution—delivering high-quality work on tight timelines. They should have a strong understanding of how stories and content travel across borders, how credibility is built over time, and how communications can support fundraising.
To be successful in this role, these are the things that will matter most:
- Excellent writing and editorial judgement – an ability to identify strong impact stories, shape narratives, and produce polished content for external audiences.
- Design and content sensibility - experience developing content in close partnership with designers and ensuring materials are visually compelling, creative, accessible, and on brand.
- Media experience — an understanding of the media landscape and an ability to manage an agency to deliver on priorities.
- Strategic communications capability — the ability to translate strategy, narrative and positioning into clear, effective content across channels.
- Project ownership and delivery — strong organizational skills and the ability to deliver against timelines, incorporate feedback, and work through constraints.
- Stakeholder engagement – comfortable working with a diverse set of stakeholders to deliver thoughtful, compelling communications outputs.
- Systems and gender lens — familiarity with gender equality, systems change, and Global South contexts, with the ability to communicate complex work accurately and responsibly.
The Role
In this role, you will be responsible for:
Impact storytelling and content creation
- Translate strategic communications priorities into clear, consistent messaging and high-quality content.
- Serve as an internal editorial lead, ensuring clarity, coherence, and quality across externally facing materials.
- Own end-to-end development of priority content projects, including editorial direction, drafting, and collaboration with designers.
- Lead the creation and maintenance of core communications assets, including impact storytelling, our story bank, funder-facing reports, campaign content, and leadership materials.
- Coordinate with internal teams to synthesize complex information into communications materials that support external positioning and resource mobilization goals.
- Ensure all external facing content aligns with brand guidelines and messaging.
- Draft and edit briefing notes, talking points, Q&As, and background materials.
- Coordinate internally and with external providers to ensure content and brand templates are updated and well-executed.
- Be a brand ambassador for Co-Impact ensuring our content and templates align with our brand guidelines and messaging.
Media support and external positioning
- Support the AD, Communications, media agencies and partners to coordinate media outreach, ensuring all content is aligned with narrative priorities.
- Maintain awareness of the media environment so that you can navigate recommendations from agencies with sound editorial and reputational judgement.
- Support with both proactive and reactive media during major announcements and external moments.
Project management & communications planning
- Support delivery against clear timelines by translating priorities into actionable communications plans and keeping work on track and on budget.
- Incorporate feedback with judgment by synthesizing input from multiple stakeholders and refining outputs efficiently.
- Proactively identify dependencies, risks and potential roadblocks, working with colleagues to resolve issues and maintain momentum.
- Provide concise updates on progress, decisions needed, and next steps to keep stakeholders aligned.
- Coordinate with the internal operations team on communications needs related to reputation and compliance.
Qualifications and Experience
- 5+ years of experience in communications, media relations or a related field.
- Strong impact storytelling, writing and editing skills, with experience producing high-quality materials under tight timelines.
- Experience developing content in partnership with designers or creative teams.
- Experience managing multiple workstreams simultaneously in fast-paced, evolving environments.
- Experience working in philanthropy, gender equality or development is required.
- Experience in fundraising communications and community engagement is strongly preferred.
- Experience working or living in the Global South is preferred.
- Strong written and verbal English communications skills.
- Fluency in a second language is helpful but not required.
- A university graduate with a degree in a relevant field.
- Sound judgment, discretion, and comfort operating with autonomy.
- Background and experience executing both project and budget management.
- Ability to work across time zones; willingness to travel as needed.
Required Skills
- Process Management and Results Orientation: Strong project management skills, deadline management, sense of responsibility and accountability, the ability to manage multiple responsibilities, adjust and adapt along the way.
- Supporting colleagues and senior leaders: History of thriving in a role where your success is highly dependent on your team’s success, where your first responsibility is to provide outstanding leverage and support to your colleagues, including successfully and smoothly “managing upwards” by helping to guide and set-up things for your manager to be efficient and effective.
- Strategic Acumen: Ability to spot high-potential opportunities and facilitate the design of strategic approaches backed by evidence informed analysis.
- Sound analysis and judgment: Ability to listen well, integrating gender analysis, evidence, and strong logical analysis, while seeing perspectives from different sides, resulting in strong recommendations and judgements based on values and principles balancing data, experience, and risk.
- Working with People: Experience contributing to and managing collaborative teams to work productively, effectively, and inclusively towards shared goals.
- Managing Action with Purpose and Values: Ability to work with colleagues and get things done in accordance with core purpose and values.
- Interpersonal Savvy: Great at making and fostering relationships inside and outside the organization, keen intercultural appreciation, inclusive style, comfortable around senior leaders, can represent Co-Impact well.
- Financial understanding: Basic familiarity with the core elements of an organization’s financial model, financial statements, strategic financial analysis/ projections, and budgeting.
- Learning Orientation: Humble and intellectually curious; seek and work with evidence, demonstrated openness to new ideas and a diversity of perspectives; unafraid to admit and learn from failure.
- Strong Moral Compass: Impeccable personal ethics and integrity, kind and caring.
- Proficiency with core business tools: Strong proficiency in Microsoft Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Excel.
- Communications: Exceptional ability to write and communicate ideas concisely and with clarity. Excellent oral communication skills, including the ability to work effectively in a multicultural environment.
- Global Flexibility: Given the global nature of organization working across time zones, a willingness to be flexible with working hours, work remotely and periodically undertake international travel .
- Perspective: Sense of humor and ability not to take oneself too seriously
Benefits
Co-Impact’s compensation philosophy is guided by the following three principles:
- Equity and Fairness: Our approach to compensation and benefits are designed to ensure that our global team is treated equitably regardless of location and without regard to gender, race, or nationality.
- Transparency: We want Co-Impact’s employees to understand our salary structure and to feel confident that they are paid equitably, and potential job applicants to have an understanding of how the role for which they are applying will be compensated.
- Accountability: As stewards of the philanthropic resources entrusted to us so that we can support our program partners, we are accountable to our donors and our board, to our staff, and to the general public.
In accordance with that philosophy, we include the salary for each position in our job postings. To ensure equity within the organization and for all candidates, we do not negotiate salary or benefits. The role is remote and flexible for candidates who are authorized to live and work in Brazil, Kenya, Mexico, the United Kingdom or the United States (East Coast). As we work across multiple regions, candidates should be comfortable collaborating across time zones, including occasional early‑morning or late‑afternoon meetings. The annual gross salary is USD 112,000, (where applicable, it may be paid in local currency equivalent) plus a generous benefits package.
Application Details
You are welcome to express your interest by submitting a tailored CV and cover letter that speak directly to this role and highlight your relevant experience. Applications that are generic, non-specific, or clearly AI-generated will be less competitive.
Please apply online by 5.00 pm Central Standard Time (GMT-6) Thursday, 23rd July. In your cover letter, please confirm that you are authorized to live and work in one of the locations listed above. Please note that Co‑Impact cannot cover relocation costs.
As we are a small team, we regret that we can only respond to applicants selected for an interview, and we are unable to participate in informational calls prior to interviews. Thank you for your understanding. We will review applications on a rolling basis. The position may close early if we receive a strong pool of candidates, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible. Shortlisted candidates can expect to hear from the recruitment team by the end of August 2026.
5+ years in communications or media relations; strong writing, editorial judgement, storytelling, project management, and fundraising communications experience; experience in philanthropy, gender equality, or development; university degree; proficiency with Microsoft Office.
Key Responsibilities
- creating content
- supporting media
- managing projects
Skills & Tools
Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel
Job Details
- Category: Communications and Public Affairs
- Seniority: Senior Level
- Commitment: Full Time
- Workplace: Remote — Brazil or Kenya or Mexico or United Kingdom or United States
- Salary: USD 112,000 – 112,000 / year
- Languages: English
About Co-Impact
A philanthropic organization that supports locally rooted partners with funding and strategic support to strengthen health, education, and economic systems. — Industry: Non-Profit Organizations and NGOs