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About the Role

This role offers a unique opportunity to establish the public influence infrastructure for a critical gap in the climate and environmental movement, focusing on engaging conservative and traditional audiences globally. The Global Director of Strategic Communications will build and lead OCH's central strategic communications and public-influence function, defining standards and systems to empower national teams. The priority is to amplify credible local voices and partners, shifting from direct delivery to coaching over time.

Responsibilities

Build OCH's central strategic communications and public-influence capability, including shaping the team, external support, and operating model.
Define network-wide standards, frameworks, and practical tools for strategic communications work.
Work directly with country teams to develop strategies and transition to a coaching and advisory role.
Develop a network-wide spokesperson methodology for identifying, preparing, and sustaining credible voices.
Build a rapid-response capability for timely integration of local voices into breaking stories.
Create shared infrastructure for narrative testing, media monitoring, intelligence gathering, and cross-network learning.
Position OCH's voices, stories, and data for an AI-shaped media environment.
Help country teams map and build relationships with relevant outlets, validators, think tanks, creators, and platforms.
Lead on developing crisis response protocols.
Manage a budget focused on developing capacity and skills across the network.
Plan the handover process, defining milestones for reduced central support and increased country team ownership.

Requirements

Senior strategic communications judgment with an understanding of media, politics, audiences, narratives, and organizational strategy.
Recent, hands-on experience in placing stories, developing spokespeople, managing narratives, and working with journalists, editors, creators, or platforms.
Appetite and ability to create infrastructure from scratch.
Genuine commitment to developing others' capabilities.
Strong understanding of center-right and conservative landscapes and credibility to engage necessary validators and spokespeople.
Ability to work across multiple country contexts with cultural judgment.
Current, practical interest in how AI is reshaping information production, discovery, and trust.
Ability to bring authority and judgment without ego, set clear standards, challenge when needed, and allow country teams to own their work.
Experience of building, spinning out, or scaling a new entity, function, or practice (desirable).
Experience in multi-country civil-society networks, international NGOs, or politically diverse coalitions (desirable).
Experience in climate, environment, energy, land, rural affairs, or adjacent public-policy debates (desirable).
Experience working with philanthropic funders, boards, or senior political stakeholders (desirable).

Skills

Strategic Communications
Public Influence
Media Relations
Spokesperson Development
Narrative Management
AI and Media Change
Network Orchestration
Coaching
Crisis Response
Budget Management

Location

Based in the US

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior

Benefits

Health insurance
Pension contributions
Other benefits appropriate to the candidate's location

About the Company

Our Common Home (OCH) works through independent local organizations in approximately 19 countries.
OCH partners engage people with strong attachments to land, traditions, and communities, including audiences often alienated by mainstream climate advocacy.
OCH increases support for protecting the environment by empowering those left out of the conversation.
OCH supports local actors in taking environmental action rooted in more mainstream values and interests.
OCH develops better, longer-lasting solutions reflecting ordinary people's priorities.
OCH creates space for decision-makers across the political spectrum to lead on environmental issues.
OCH builds confidence, capability, and credibility in areas where environmental action has been framed as partisan.
OCH's model depends on local credibility, with country teams possessing the best understanding of their audiences, politics, language, and media environments.
The central team exists to strengthen country work, not direct it.
A small global team sets the mission and supports country teams on strategy, research, governance, and fundraising.