Head of Communications

About the Head of Communications Opportunity

The Center for Humane Technology is looking for a Head of Communications to develop and implement a comprehensive, innovative vision for leveraging CHT’s unique voice and platform to drive a cultural awakening and create mass public pressure on tech companies to shift toward Humane Technology. This role will lead a growing Communications team of staff and contractors, will collaborate closely with each of our team leads across Policy, Technologist Mobilization, Product Outcomes, and Operations, and will report to our Executive Director.

CHT maintains a vibrant, mindful, intellectually rigorous, values-driven culture. Ideal candidates will be curious, care deeply about human potential, and be highly motivated to drive large-scale culture change.

Responsibilities

Leadership & Strategy

• Develop and implement a comprehensive, innovative vision for leveraging CHT’s unique voice and platform to drive a cultural awakening and create mass public pressure on tech companies to shift toward Humane Technology
• Create and execute on annual strategic cross-channel communication plans that deliver large scale global culture change
• Serve as a guide/mentor to key personnel to develop their communications and media skills
• Provide guidelines, tools, templates, and other collateral for CHT’s internal team
• Regularly test and iterate on various communication strategies; track and measure various approaches to awareness-raising, momentum-building, and brand-building
• Identify key audiences and segmentation strategies and key messages and strategies for each; reporting findings and continually refine our approach
• Ensure CHT messaging is consistent, understandable, and repeatable across the team

Opportunities

• Be creative and innovative; Seek out new ways to drive our message, introduce fresh perspective and people to our communications work
• Get ahead of potentially powerful stories and areas of interest so we can make the most of big public moments
• Use major industry and world events (e.g., privacy blow-ups, new software bugs, new harmful research, presidential elections, and even new product improvements) to introduce our framing to the world 

Collaborations & Relationships

• Develop powerful relationships internally and externally:
  • Support CHT’s leadership team
  • Identify for key program areas (Technologist Mobilization, Product Inspiration, and Policy, and Comms):
    • The audience(s) we need to influence
    • The message(s) those people need to understand
    • The best ways to get those messages to those audiences (press interviews, conferences, op-eds, hosted events, workshops, social media, etc.)
  • Support CHT’s fundraising messaging through various digital collateral
  • Track the field of ethical tech, understand CHT’s place within it, how to support it, and where our unique voice is most effective

Additional Activities

• As appropriate, use a combination of the following tactics to execute on our strategy:
  • Interviews with media (TV, podcast, radio, written)
  • Writing Op-Eds in specific press outlets
  • Conference presentations
  • Films (documentary or other)
  • Books 
  • Podcasts
  • Videos
  • Website (humanetech.com)
  • Newsletters to our 70K+ mailing list
  • Writing on our own platform (blog / Medium)
  • Hosting special press/influencer events (like Project Paradigm)
  • Press releases
  • “Product” sheets (one-pagers or other easily digested form factors)
  • Influencer campaigns
  • Guerilla campaigns (e.g., targeted ads to reach specific influences, buying billboards on highways, etc.)
  • Mass-audience campaigns
  • Infographics (images or videos)
  • Social media
• Direct and manage communications calendar
• Direct and manage relationships with press and media outlets (proactively and reactively)
• Direct and manage relationships with key influencers
• Oversee our website, social media, newsletters
• Oversee occasional special events

Qualifications

• Veteran leader in social impact media relations, branding, marketing, and communications who has been in the space for 10+ years 
• Demonstrated track record of building successful mass scale social impact campaigns that advance and lift up thought leaders, big ideas, and new ways of thinking
• Demonstrated track record of shifting conversation among highly leveraged stakeholders in social impact, specifically tech and policy
• Strong network and knowledge of ecosystem, partners and key players in the ethical tech / social impact space
• Experience upleveling an organizational brand and identity from grassroots to culturally recognized
• Experience running highly creative, guerrilla campaigns grounded in paradigm-shifting thinking
• Outside the box thinker with a disregard for status quo
• Exceptional people skills, including strong empathy, exemplary ethics
• Strong oral and written communication skills