Job Overview
We are hiring a Communications & Engagement Coordinator to put Airbel’s best case in front of its most important audiences. Everything in this role orbits around one through-line: Airbel’s narrative and value proposition — from preparing the CRIO for high-stakes internal and external meetings, to managing the Advisory Board’s biannual convenings, to maintaining Airbel’s public-facing digital presence, to coordinating donor-specific pitch materials. In short, the Coordinator ensures that how Airbel tells its story is consistent, compelling, and current across every channel and audience.
The
ideal candidate combines editorial judgment with operational reliability. They
are a strong communicator and storyteller, with a particular talent for
translating highly technical, specialized work for audiences with no grounding
in our content — moving fluidly between a donor pitch deck, a leadership
briefing, a LinkedIn post, and a media brief, calibrating tone and framing for
each. They can also own the practical logistics that make high-stakes
engagement work: coordinating inputs across teams, managing timelines, and
ensuring nothing falls through the cracks. If this person is great at their
job, Airbel’s work will be understood, valued, and supported by the audiences
that matter most. It is expected that the candidate will expertly use AI tools
in this work.
Major Responsibilities
CRIO
Meeting Support
- Provide comprehensive support to ensure the CRIO’s high-stakes
meetings — both internal (e.g., CEO, Executive Board) and external — are
well-prepared, including development of agendas, pre-reads, briefings,
talking points, and presentations.
- Solicit and coordinate inputs from collaborators across the
department to ensure meeting materials are accurate, current, and
strategically aligned.
- Track action items and follow-through from key meetings, ensuring
commitments are documented and progress is monitored.
Advisory
Board Support
- Own holistic management of Airbel’s biannual Advisory Board
meetings: agenda-setting and planning, preparation of briefing materials,
coordination of logistics, and post-meeting follow-through.
- Develop clear, decision-ready materials that enable productive Board
engagement with Airbel’s strategy and portfolio.
- Manage ongoing Board communications and ensure timely follow-up on
Board-generated action items and commitments.
Fundraising
Engagement Support
- Create and maintain a portfolio of pitch materials that showcase
Airbel’s topline value proposition to funders, ensuring they compellingly
represent current work, impact, and strategic direction.
- Coordinate donor-specific preparation — tailoring pitch materials,
developing briefing documents, and aligning content to donor interests —
primarily for the CRIO, with capacity to support other senior leaders and
teams as available.
- Work closely with fundraising counterparts to ensure pitch and
reporting materials are aligned and of consistently high quality.
Communications
& Digital Presence
- Own Airbel’s public-facing digital presence, ensuring the website
and LinkedIn compellingly and accurately represent current work, team, and
impact — in line with established brand guidelines.
- Lead a reboot of Airbel’s website as an early priority, ensuring it
compellingly reflects current portfolio, impact, and strategic direction.
- Manage Airbel’s LinkedIn presence: develop a lightweight content
calendar, draft and publish posts, and work with subject-matter experts to
develop content for specialized areas.
- Ensure streamlined execution of Airbel’s earned media efforts by
managing specialist resources (consultants and internal roles), providing
the content and context needed to develop and pitch stories for media
placement and speaking engagements.
Job Requirements
- 4–6 years of experience in communications, strategic engagement, or
a related role — ideally in close partnership with senior leaders in a
research, policy, innovation, or humanitarian context.
- Exceptional communication and storytelling skills, with a
demonstrated ability to translate complex, technical content into clear,
compelling narratives for non-specialist audiences.
- Strong writing and editing skills across formats: executive
briefings, pitch decks, web copy, social media, and media briefs.
- Excellent organizational and coordination skills, with the ability
to manage multiple concurrent workstreams, track deliverables across
teams, and keep complex processes on schedule.
- Experience coordinating earned media efforts, including sufficient
understanding of how stories are developed, pitched, and placed to
effectively manage specialist resources.
- Experience managing a brand’s digital presence across web and social
channels, with comfort using content management systems (e.g., WordPress,
Drupal, or similar).
- Demonstrated use of AI tools in professional communications
workflows (e.g., drafting, research, content production), with openness to
continued experimentation and adoption.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively
with senior leaders, subject-matter experts, and cross-functional
colleagues across cultures and time zones.
How to Apply
