Director of Strategic Communications

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Girls for Gender Equity (GGE)

Hybrid
  • Career category: Comms/ Digital/ Media
  • Job type: Job
  • Experience level: 5-10 years
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: Hybrid
  • Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
  • Remuneration: $85,000 USD-$100,000 USD / yearly
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 19/09/2025
  • Location: United States 
Child protection/ Children’s rights Movement building
The Organization

Girls for Gender Equity (GGE) is an intergenerational advocacy organization that works through a Black feminist lens to achieve gender and racial justice by centering the leadership of Black girls and gender-expansive young people of color to reshape culture and policy through advocacy, youth-centered programming, and shifting dominant narratives.

Your Day-to-Day
60% - Strategy Design + Brand Management + Messaging

  • Design strategic communications goals that will be updated annually and aligned to overall organizational strategic priorities
  • Alongside the Senior Director Team (representing Programs, Impact Policy & Advocacy, and Development), gather and develop stories that reflect and represent the impact of GGE’s youth work;
  • Create and craft social media and newsletter content that engages audiences, grows followers, inspires action and conversation, and aligns with the organization’s mission, values and point of view;
  • Liaise with all departments – Programs, Policy, Impact Hub, Healing Justice, and Development – to gain a comprehensive understanding of what’s happening across the organization and identify necessary communication assets.
  • Create messaging that challenges disempowering and stereotypical narratives of Black and Brown girls and gender expansive youth, and instead uplifts powerful + positive expressions of who our young people are in their own words.  


25% - Development

  • Gather stories that holistically capture and communicate our impact to donors;
  • Write content to support Development in reporting and seeking out new grant applications;
  • Establish & maintain inter- and cross-team processes to ensure awareness and inclusion of various organizational activities to highlight on social and in the newsletter;
  • Reporting annual impact measures - and creation of new assets to represent GGE’s work and impact 
 

15% - External Relations and Events

  • Attend major youth or other partnership events to help capture audio, video, and stories for external communications content;
  • Attend occasional lobbying activities to liaise with press and other stakeholders;
  • Work closely with the Senior Director of Development and the Executive Team to craft and execute a comprehensive strategy around GGE’s 25th anniversary.
 

The Skills You’ll Need

Success in the Director of Communications role will require a deep commitment to anti-racist, feminist/womanist/queer, and youth development work. The ideal candidate will also bring the following skills, attributes and experiences:

  • Passion for GGE’s mission, vision, and work;
  •  7+ years’ of broad and progressively responsible experience in the nonprofit development sector, Understanding of strategic communications – ability to weave GGE’s mission, vision, brand and Theory of Transformative Change (TOTC) into all aspects of external communications 
  • Exceptional writing skills with the ability to convey the organization’s voice and point of view to a variety of audiences. Can write newsletters, press releases, talking points, op-eds, etc. 
  • A demonstrated track record of managing a digital strategy (social media and website) and organizational digital media accounts.
  • Passion for storytelling and ability to parse out compelling stories from the organization’s work and research data.
  • Understanding of narrative strategy and how to integrate that into external communications.

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