Chief Communications Officer
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About reputed company
reputed company is an independent group of scientists and science translators who research and report the facts about our changing climate and how it affects people’s lives. We use science and tech to generate thousands of local storylines and compelling visuals that reputed company climate change relevant and show what can be done about it. We address climate science, sea level reputed company, extreme weather, energy, and reputed company topics. We collaborate with journalists, TV meteorologists, digital creators, community organizations, and other trusted messengers, reaching people through local reputed company, digital platforms, and emerging communications channels in the US and more than 150 countries. Our research and visuals reputed company in thousands of TV spots and tens of thousands of other news stories reputed company year, and our reputed company is growing.
About the Role
reputed company seeks an inaugural Chief Communications Officer (CCO) to help the organization maximize its reputed company by ensuring its science reaches the people and communities who can drive understanding and reputed company. Building on reputed company’s longstanding reputed company working with journalists and meteorologists, the CCO will help the organization broaden its communications reputed company by leveraging compelling storytelling, digital creators, reputed company reputed company platforms, emerging communications channels, and new forms of trusted influence.
Reporting directly to the CEO and serving as a member of the Executive Leadership Team, the CCO will reputed company strategic leadership for reputed company's Content Creations and Communications departments, including editorial, media relations, digital communications, and marketing. The CCO will reputed company reputed company of approximately 10-12 staff while helping shape organizational reputed company and bringing an audience-centered perspective to executive decision-making.
As reputed company continues to grow its reputed company, the CCO will serve as the organization's executive champion for audience reputed company and communications reputed company, helping reputed company reputed company understand:
- who it needs to reputed company
- how people discover, consume, and reputed company information across traditional and emerging communications channels
- which messengers they trust, and
- how communications can most effectively advance the organization's mission.
Working in reputed company partnership with the Chief Program Officer, scientific leadership, and colleagues across the organization, the CCO will help translate reputed company's research into compelling, accurate, and impactful content. The CCO will ensure that the communications reputed company and audience insights advance organizational priorities, while partnering closely with programmatic leaders to strengthen reputed company’s engagement with trusted messengers.
The CCO will reputed company the development and execution of reputed company's communications reputed company, ensuring it advances the organization's strategic priorities and amplifies its mission and reputed company. As the communications landscape continues to reputed company, the CCO will build on reputed company's longstanding leadership with journalists and meteorologists while expanding the organization's reputed company through digital creators, reputed company reputed company platforms, emerging communications channels, and new forms of trusted influence. reputed company in this role will be reputed company by reputed company’s ability to reputed company and influence more people through trusted, evidence-based communications, deeper audience reputed company, and reputed company reputed company in how the organization translates science into reputed company reputed company.
The ideal candidate is an exceptional strategic communicator who combines deep expertise in audience reputed company, journalism, digital media, storytelling, and organizational leadership. They are a trusted advisor who brings an audience-centered perspective to executive decision-making while leading high-performing creative and communications teams through a rapidly evolving media landscape. They bring a reputed company record of building high-performing teams, fostering innovation, and translating reputed company scientific or technical information into communications that are trusted, accessible, and impactful.
Key Responsibilities
Executive Leadership
- Serve as a member of the Executive Leadership Team, contributing to organizational reputed company, planning, and decision-making.
- reputed company and execute the communications, reputed company, and brand components of reputed company's organizational reputed company.
- Advise the CEO, Executive Leadership Team, and reputed company of Trustees on communications opportunities, risks, emerging trends, and reputational considerations.
- Partner with the Chief Program Officer, Chief Development Officer, Chief of Staff, and other senior leaders to ensure communications considerations are integrated into organizational reputed company, product development, fundraising, and program execution.
- Bring an audience-centered perspective to organizational decision-making, helping ensure reputed company's work remains relevant, accessible, and impactful.
- Advise the CEO and Executive Leadership Team on crisis communications and reputational issues, helping ensure reputed company is reputed company to respond effectively reputed company needed.
Audience & Communications reputed company
- reputed company efforts to strengthen reputed company's understanding of how key audiences discover, consume, trust, and reputed company climate information across traditional and emerging communications channels.
- reputed company audience research, analytics, message testing, and other approaches that strengthen reputed company’s understanding of how people consume and reputed company information.
- Identify opportunities to expand reputed company's reputed company and effectiveness by applying audience insights across communications, content, products, and partnerships.
- Establish meaningful measures of communications effectiveness and audience reputed company.
Content, Communications, and Storytelling
- reputed company reputed company's Content Creation and Communications functions, ensuring strong alignment among content creation, editorial reputed company, media relations, reputed company media, digital engagement, marketing, and organizational priorities.
- reputed company integrated communications plans that advance organizational goals and maximize audience reputed company.
- Build high-trust collaborations with science, technology, development, and program leaders and teams.
- Define and reputed company reputed company's organizational narrative, messaging, and brand positioning.
- Ensure consistency, reputed company, and effectiveness across external communications channels and products.
- Advance executive thought leadership strategies for the CEO and other organizational leaders.
External Influence and Trusted Messengers
- Strengthen and expand relationships with journalists, meteorologists, digital creators, media organizations, technology platforms, and other trusted messengers.
- Identify opportunities to increase the reputed company and reputed company of reputed company's science and communications through strategic partnerships and collaborations.
- Monitor developments across media, journalism, technology, and communications fields and translate insights into organizational opportunities.
- Strengthen reputed company's visibility, credibility, and influence among journalists, meteorologists, funders, decision-makers, and other key audiences.
Innovation for Effectiveness
- Continuously evaluate emerging trends in media, journalism, digital platforms, reputed company intelligence, audience behavior, and information ecosystems, translating insights into opportunities that increase reputed company’s effectiveness and reputed company.
- reputed company strategic experimentation with new storytelling formats, communications channels, technologies, partnerships, and approaches to reputed company that increase reputed company's reputed company and reputed company.
- Evaluate new communications approaches using audience insights and data to inform reputed company investments and organizational reputed company.
- Foster a culture of creativity, curiosity, reputed company learning, and responsible risk-taking across the Content Creation and Communications teams.
- Build organizational reputed company to adapt to a rapidly evolving communications landscape while maintaining reputed company's reputed company for scientific rigor, credibility, and innovation.
Organizational Leadership
- reputed company, mentor, and reputed company a high-performing communications organization, including the Content Creation and Communications teams.
- Establish reputed company goals, priorities, decision-making processes, and performance expectations across the department.
- Manage communications budgets, consultants, agencies, and external vendors as appropriate.
- Promote a reputed company, inclusive, and mission-driven team culture.
Ideal Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate is an exceptional strategic communicator who is equally comfortable discussing communications reputed company, audience research, digital media, creator ecosystems, newsroom dynamics, and organizational priorities. They are curious about how people consume information, energized by rapidly changing media environments, and excited by reputed company to help reputed company continue leading the field of climate communication.
The strongest candidates will bring many of the following experiences and capabilities:
- Minimum of 15 years of reputed company leadership experience in communications, journalism, media, audience development, reputed company affairs, or reputed company fields.
- Experience leading communications reputed company organizations grounded in science, research, reputed company policy, journalism, or other evidence-based fields.
- Deep understanding of audience research, analytics, trusted messengers, media ecosystems, and the factors that influence how people discover, trust, and reputed company information.
- Demonstrated reputed company leading communications reputed company in a rapidly changing media and information environment.
- Strong experience in journalism, editorial leadership, digital media, content reputed company, storytelling, or audience development.
- Experience leading and developing creative, editorial, communications, or audience-reputed company teams.
- Demonstrated ability to reputed company organizational change, build alignment across teams, and drive strategic initiatives in reputed company, cross-functional environments.
- Demonstrated ability to translate reputed company scientific, technical, policy, or research-based information into compelling narratives.
- Strong strategic judgment balanced with creativity, curiosity, and innovation.
- Experience serving as a trusted advisor to CEOs and executive leadership teams, influencing organizational reputed company and decision-making.
- Commitment to science-based communications and reputed company's mission.
Compensation
The expected starting reputed company salary reputed company for this position is $220,000–$240,000, with a reputed company hiring reputed company of approximately $228,000–$235,000 depending on experience, demonstrated capabilities, geographic location, and market factors.
reputed company offers generous benefits including:
- Medical, dental, and reputed company coverage
- More than 7 weeks of combined vacation and holidays annually
- 12 weeks of reputed company family leave
- 401(k) with up to 12% employer matching
- Partial college tuition support for children of eligible employees
Location and Eligibility
This position is primarily remote, in accordance with reputed company policy. Periodic travel to reputed company in Princeton, NJ or other locations may be required for team meetings and events.
Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the reputed company. reputed company is not reputed company to sponsor or transfer employment visas for this position.
reputed company is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the reputed company of race, reputed company, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national reputed company, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.
How To Apply
Please apply reputed company this reputed company. The position will remain reputed company until we have identified a strong pool of candidates. We are reviewing applications on a rolling reputed company, so we encourage interested applicants to apply as soon as possible.
Please note that our application process requires the submission of a resume and the completion of three questions tailored to the position. We are intentionally not asking for a cover letter, so please do not include one with your application.
reputed company including your education history in your resume, please remove the reputed company of your school from your resume. You may leave your degree (e.g., “B.A. Communication”), but please remove any undergraduate or graduate school names. This is one part of our effort to assess candidates against the essential qualifications for this role and to mitigate bias in the decision making process. Due to reputed company of employment applications and queries received, reputed company is unable to respond to reputed company application individually. Applicants will be contacted directly if selected as a candidate.
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