Senior Digital Communications Manager
Description
- Reports to: Head of Communications
- Preferred location: Europe or Asia (GMT +/- 7 hours)
- Annual Salary: Compensation for this role is benchmarked at EUR 73,000 and adjusted based on the employee’s location and aligned local salary bands.
- Working Hours: Full time role at 5 days/week
About Climate Catalyst
Climate Catalyst is a non-profit dedicated to galvanizing the collective power of business, investors, and civil society to influence and accelerate policy change in Asia and Europe. Our vision is a just, prosperous world in which global warming is limited to 1.5°C.
Climate Catalyst works to strengthen collaboration and mobilise new actors on pivotal climate challenges in heavy emitting industries. We build power and compel political leaders to act at the speed and scale needed to tackle the climate crisis. We do this by:
- Working behind the scenes with stakeholders in Europe and Asia to identify critical climate issues where action to date has been limited, and the potential for collaboration is high.
- Bringing together renowned experts and new entrants to share ideas, and design and deliver creative campaigns that secure decisive changes in national and regional policy to deliver sectoral tipping points and secure significant emissions reductions.
- Advising on strategy, offering grants and bringing creative communications, advocacy and business expertise to build power across the climate community and catalyse action.
To date, we’ve used this model successfully to mobilise the business community in support of the EU Nature Restoration Law, the first legislation for peatlands protection across Europe, and spark collective action in India that led to a commitment from the Ministry of Steel to develop a green steel roadmap.
About the role
Communications and narrative building is a core part of Climate Catalyst’s model for impact. This role will be instrumental in delivering impactful and exciting digital communications that support our programmes delivery impact – by informing, influencing and inspiring action. It will also contribute to building Climate Catalyst’s reputation with our key stakeholders across Europe, Asia and globally.
You will build our presence and impact by developing digital communication strategies to support our programmes in Europe, India and Indonesia, managing our digital channels and supporting colleagues to grow their online presence. It will support our already established programmes of work on aviation and chemicals in Europe and steel in Asia and support the team with digital expertise as we grow new programmes of work.
Climate Catalyst commits to deliver our communications for and through partners. Therefore this role will not only support our internal teams, but with partners across our networks and coalitions to co-build strategies for collective impact. You will also support the Head of Communications in building and protecting the Climate Catalyst brand.
What you will do
Strategy:
- Contribute to Climate Catalyst’s overall communications strategy.
- Lead the development of impactful digital strategies to support programme teams to deliver impact across Europe and Asia, including reporting and evaluation.
- Advise colleagues on social media best practice, supporting them to grow their professional profiles.
- Work with partners and Climate Catalyst coalitions to co-build shared digital strategies and to share and drive digital best practice across the wider ecosystems in which we work.
- Manage and monitor Climate Catalyst’s own digital channels – including website and social media – and regularly suggest ways to improve and enhance our digital presence.
- Lead the development of thought leadership and reputation building content to help establish Climate Catalyst and its staff as trusted experts in energising collective action on pivotal climate challenges.
- Lead and implement SEO strategy, working with the wider team to improve the visibility and performance of our learning hub.
Content development:
- Lead the content creation for Climate Catalyst’s digital channels, including imagery, graphics, simple reports and briefings and videos, using tools like Canva.
- Write and edit copy for Climate Catalyst’s digital channels, including the website, email, newsletters, social media and other digital products.
- Lead on scheduling and posting of social media content, and interact with responses.
- Keep all templates up-to-date and develop new ones where needed.
- Maintain Climate Catalyst’ brand assets, including our image library, icon and graphic library etc.
Administration:
- Help ensure all digital and communication outputs are on brand, and support teams to meet best practice for brand consistency.
- Help ensure Climate Catalyst is meeting best practice standards for digital communications.
- Support budget management of digital activities.
- Support team with monitoring and reporting requests, and keep our internal dashboard up to day to showcase digital impact.
- Support the team to ensure compliance with data protection regulations, and ensure use of tools – i.e. HubSpot, in line with these regulations.
- Manage relationships with external consultants and agencies where needed.
Innovation and learning:
- Keep on top of trends and identify opportunities for experimentation in digital output.
- Run internal and partner learning sessions to support broader growth of digital expertise and best practice.
Requirements
What you will bring
- Substantial experience in digital and social communications. Knowledge of or an interest in climate change is a bonus.
- Strong knowledge of digital and social campaigning tools and techniques.
- Demonstrable experience managing WordPress websites, including content creation and editing using the Gutenberg block editor.
- Experience managing digital marketing or engagement campaigns or the digital side of advocacy campaigns.
- Experience of using digital channels to reach target audiences – including potentially public or corporate engagement or policy advocacy.
- Experience running paid-digital campaigns is desirable, as is any experience working with digital influencers.
- Extensive experience in measuring, monitoring, reporting and improving digital impact for an organisation.
- Experience of advising colleagues on best practice on digital communications and or branding.
- Excellent written and visual content creation skills.
- Strong storytelling skills and the ability to support others tell great stories.
- Proven experience of working in partnership, particularly in the civil society space.
- Excellent organisational and project management skills, with the ability to balance competing demands for your time and attention.
- Fluent English is required for this role.
- Commitment to Climate Catalyst’s values: Be courageously open-minded, collaborate to accelerate, always be inclusive, listen and learn.
How you will work
- Objective focused and detail oriented.
- Eager to collaborate and solve challenges.
- Team player and true champion of your colleagues.
- Active listener who elevates the thinking of teams.
- Humble, with low ego and ready to roll up your sleeves.
- Committed to our values of courage, collaboration, diversity and learning.
Benefits
Additional information
- This role is a global role, working across our teams in Europe and Asia.
- Currently, our main working language is English. Fluency in another language is highly valued.
- This position requires some international travel.
- If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment tasks or otherwise participating in the interview process, please inform us of that in the relevant application section.
Compensation + Benefits
- Pay is competitive in all hiring regions.
- Benefits include: wellness stipend, professional development, co-working space coverage, generous pension contribution and more.
For more information about working with us at Climate Catalyst, including compensation and benefits, visit our website at .
Diversity at Climate Catalyst
Climate Catalyst aims to design inclusive strategies to meet our objectives. We recognise that the only way to deliver on this is to build a diverse team composed of individuals with varying backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We encourage applicants from historically marginalised and currently underrepresented groups in the climate movement to apply.
Equal Employment Opportunities
Climate Catalyst is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable employment opportunity laws prohibiting discrimination. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
How to apply
To apply, please upload a cover letter of no more than one page outlining interest in the role and your CV to this application page.



