Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will develop climate-program narratives and create clear, accurate content for public and media audiences. You will write and edit materials across digital, social, press, and multimedia channels; pitch stories; monitor performance; coordinate communications requests; and apply digital, visualization, and AI tools to strengthen communications.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in communications, journalism, climate science, environmental science, energy policy, or a related field
- 3 to 5 years of professional communications experience
- Experience pitching stories and working with the press
- Knowledge of climate modeling, carbon-cycle science, energy-transition pathways, and computational tools
- Ability to translate technical topics for non-expert audiences
- Experience collaborating with researchers, scientists, or technical subject-matter experts
- Writing and editing skills
- Experience using AI tools for workflows and productivity
- Experience managing websites, digital-content platforms, and social channels
- Familiarity with analytics tools and audience-engagement metrics
- Project management and multitasking skills
Responsibilities
- Develop unified narratives for the climate portfolio
- Advise program staff on positioning, messaging, and presentations
- Create grantee profiles, interviews, and feature stories
- Write and edit press releases, web content, reports, newsletters, op-eds, social posts, speeches, and explainers
- Translate climate and scientific research for media and public audiences
- Pitch stories to journalists, podcasters, and influencers
- Manage social-media content calendars and posts
- Maintain consistent brand tone and messaging
- Collaborate on video, audio, interactive, and short-form storytelling
- Monitor communications metrics and use findings to inform strategy
- Identify digital, data-visualization, and AI opportunities
- Monitor climate research and grantee publications for amplification
- Manage communications requests from internal teams and external partners
- Provide project support to the communications team