Manager, Communications

Who We Are

Co-Impact brings together local changemakers and funders from around the world to make health, education, and economic systems stronger and more inclusive – creating impact that lasts. Our commitment to advancing gender equality and women’s leadership is central to this goal. By focusing on systems, we work at the scale of the problem - dismantling the root causes of inequality that disadvantage hundreds of millions of women, girls and marginalized communities.

Spanning five continents, our team identifies partners that will create lasting progress when supported with the resources to work ling funding allows us to provide large, flexible grants and strategic support to locally-rooted partners in Africa, Asia, and Latin America who know their systems best. Our partners' initiatives will benefit more than 600 million people and we can go even further together.

We aim to deploy over $1 billion by 2030 and achieve a world where everyone can lead fulfilling lives. For more information, please visit co-impact.org and take a look at our Handbook.

Co-Impact partners with Professional Employment Organizations (PEOs) to employ their staff.

Co-Impact seeks a Communications Manager to strengthen the organization’s external voice in support of its strategic priorities, including resource mobilization, leadership visibility, and role within the wider sector. Reporting into the Associate Director, Communications (AD, Communications) the Communications Manager will contribute to the execution of Co-Impact’s communications strategy in partnership with the Digital Communications Manager and agency partners. This role is centered on editorial leadership, content development, and brand-aligned impact storytelling.

This is a hands‑on role for an experienced Communications Manager who can produce compelling content for target audiences and understands how to get this content to the right audience in creative ways.

This role requires strategic judgment, strong project management skills, and comfort operating in fast-moving, global environments. The ideal candidate brings the ability to move seamlessly between strategy and execution—delivering high-quality work on tight timelines. They should have a strong understanding of how stories and content travel across borders, how credibility is built over time, and how communications can support fundraising.

To be successful in this role, these are the things that will matter most:

• Excellent writing and editorial judgement – an ability to identify strong impact stories, shape narratives, and produce polished content for external audiences.
• Design and content sensibility - experience developing content in close partnership with designers and ensuring materials are visually compelling, creative, accessible, and on brand.
• Media experience — an understanding of the media landscape and an ability to manage an agency to deliver on priorities.
• Strategic communications capability — the ability to translate strategy, narrative and positioning into clear, effective content across channels.
• Project ownership and delivery — strong organizational skills and the ability to deliver against timelines, incorporate feedback, and work through constraints.
• Stakeholder engagement – comfortable working with a diverse set of stakeholders to deliver thoughtful, compelling communications outputs.
• Systems and gender lens — familiarity with gender equality, systems change, and Global South contexts, with the ability to communicate complex work accurately and responsibly.

In this role, you will be responsible for:

• Translate strategic communications priorities into clear, consistent messaging and high-quality content.
• Serve as an internal editorial lead, ensuring clarity, coherence, and quality across externally facing materials.
• Own end-to-end development of priority content projects, including editorial direction, drafting, and collaboration with designers.
• Lead the creation and maintenance of core communications assets, including impact storytelling, our story bank, funder-facing reports, campaign content, and leadership materials.
• Coordina…