Global Director of Strategic & Political Communications

Our Common Home, Global Director of Strategic & Political Communications. Fully remote, full-time, 5 days a week. Reports to the Chief Strategy Officer, working closely with the CEO. Competitive remuneration including health insurance and pension contributions appropriate to location. The opportunity: This is a rare opportunity to build the public-influence infrastructure for one of the most important gaps in the climate and environmental movement: how to make care for the environment credible, visible and mainstream among conservative and traditional audiences globally. Our Common Home (OCH) works through independent local organisations in around 19 countries. These partners engage people with a strong attachment to the land, traditions and communities, audiences who have often felt alienated by the tone and politics of mainstream climate advocacy. The role of the Global Director of Strategic Communications is to help credible local voices be heard, trusted and repeated in the places where public and political opinion is formed. The postholder will build OCH's central public-influence capability, known internally as media engagement, from the ground up. They will establish the standards, systems, methods and shared infrastructure that allow national teams to strengthen their own media and public-influence work. In the early phase, the role will be hands-on with priority countries. Over time, the work will shift deliberately from delivery to coaching, with the capability embedded in the network rather than held at the centre. Purpose: The Global Director of Strategic Communications will build and lead OCH's central strategic communications and public-influence function. The role will define what good media engagement work looks like across the network, support countries to develop their own capacity, and create shared systems that allow learning, intelligence and media opportunities to travel quickly. The consistent priority is to amplify partners and credible local voices rather than to raise OCH's own profile. The role works across three levels: partner and spokesperson amplification; country entity communications; and OCH central communications. Key responsibilities: Build OCH's central strategic communications and public-influence capability, including shaping the team, external support and operating model required for the build phase. Define what good media engagement work looks like across the network: the shared language, standards, frameworks and practical tools that country teams can adapt to their contexts. Work directly with country teams in the early phase to develop their strategies, then move progressively into a coaching and advisory role as country capacity grows. Develop a network-wide spokesperson methodology: how country teams identify, prepare, support and sustain credible voices over time. Build a rapid-response capability so credible local voices can become part of relevant breaking stories in a timely way. Create shared infrastructure for narrative testing, media monitoring, intelligence gathering and cross-network learning, so that good practice travels quickly. Position OCH's voices, stories and data for an AI-shaped media environment, including how information is found, summarised, trusted and reused. Help country teams map and build relationships with the outlets, validators, think tanks, creators and platforms that reach their audiences. Lead on developing crisis response protocols. Manage a budget focused mainly on developing capacity and skills across the network. Plan the handover from the start: define the milestones at which central support reduces, what country teams need to demonstrate before taking fuller ownership, and how the function moves to a lighter-touch model. Person specification (essential): Senior strategic communications judgement. Media-operator credibility, with recent hands-on experience of placing stories, developing spokespeople, managing narratives and working with journalists, editors, creators or platforms at pace. Builder instinct, the appetite and ability to create infrastructure from scratch. Coaching orientation, a genuine commitment to developing others' capability. Political fluency, with a strong understanding of centre-right and conservative landscapes. Network orchestration, the ability to work across many country contexts. Current, practical interest in how AI is reshaping the way information is produced, found and trusted. Professional proficiency in English (CEFR C2 or equivalent). Desirable: experience of building, spinning out or scaling a new entity, function or practice; experience of multi-country civil-society networks, international NGOs or politically diverse coalitions; experience in climate, environment, energy, land, rural affairs or adjacent public-policy debates; experience working with philanthropic funders, boards or senior political stakeholders. This is not a conventional head of communications role. It is not a content-production function, not a press office, not a brand role for OCH, and not a command-and-control role directing what country teams say.