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Communications Director
Climate 200
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Love the idea of leading hard‑hitting, research‑driven communications that shape elections, drive climate action and grow the community independents movement?
Why us?
Help us drive impact in:
The opportunity:
Why you might love this opp:
The Communications Director will lead Climate 200’s external communications, earned media strategy, and voter persuasion efforts through to the next federal election and beyond. This is an executive leadership role responsible for delivering high-impact communications campaigns that will help grow the community independents movement.
The role combines strategic leadership with operational excellence. It will drive sophisticated multi-channel persuasion campaigns, and maintain strong relationships across media, political, advocacy, and movement stakeholders.
The successful candidate will bring deep experience in political or advocacy campaigning, earned media, and leadership. They will be highly strategic, politically astute, and capable of operating effectively in fast-moving and high-pressure environments.
This role is Flexible and can be done from anywhere in Australia. If you are located in Melbourne, Sydney or the Gold Coast, we have offices you can work from.
What's involved:
Key responsibilities
- Develop and lead Climate 200’s overarching communications and media strategy, aligned with organisational and electoral objectives.
- Lead a sophisticated earned media strategy that increases Climate 200’s reach, influence, and impact, and supports electoral goals.
- Identify and respond to political and media opportunities.
- Provide strategic communications advice to the Executive Team and senior stakeholders.
- Lead the development and execution of highly persuasive, research-informed communications campaigns.
- Ensure campaigns are disciplined, data-informed, and continuously optimised to maximise impact across priority electorates.
- Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing communications and media team.
- Build organisational capability in persuasion communications, media engagement, rapid response, and campaign execution.
- Oversee communications planning, resourcing, and budget management to ensure effective delivery against organisational priorities.
- Support cross-functional collaboration across campaigns, research, fundraising, and operations teams.
Key criteria:
About You
- Extensive experience designing and running multi-channel persuasion advertising campaigns, ideally in political, advocacy, electoral, or movement contexts.
- Strong strategic judgement and political acumen, with the ability to navigate complex and fast-moving environments.
- Demonstrated experience building, managing, and leading high-performing teams, with at least 5 to 10 years of people management experience.
- Experience using research, polling, and audience insights to inform communications and persuasion strategies.
- Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building capabilities.
- Ability to operate at both strategic and operational levels, balancing long-term planning with rapid execution.
- Commitment to Climate 200’s mission and values.
How to apply:
Please apply with your CV and a cover letter. Your cover letter is an opportunity to tell us something we can’t learn from your CV alone. Rather than repeating your experience, we’d love to hear why you’re interested in working with Climate 200, what motivates you, and what you would bring to the role.
Applications for this role are being assessed by the Climate 200 team directly.
Interested?
1. Create a profile (or complete yours if you already have one) on Ripple Opportunities.
2. Submit an application by clicking on the job listing and ‘Apply’.
3. Please submit your resume and a cover letter (ideally PDF) that briefly outlines what is motivating you to apply for the role and how your experience could be applied in this context.
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