Your RoleAs SCO for Digital Strategy and Campaigns, you will investigate, develop, and lead innovative digital communications strategies that expand how the Foundation and our partners engage U.S. audiences on global health and development priorities. You bring strong expertise in digital storytelling, audience targeting, and campaign design. You excel at translating complex issues into compelling, culturally relevant concepts that resonate beyond traditional policy audiences. You provide strategic counsel to programmatic colleagues, grantees, and partners on how to effectively reach and influence priority audiences through digital channels and integrated campaigns. You help build and activate campaign concepts that partners and validators can plug into, driving coordinated engagement across a broader ecosystem of trusted voices. You are constantly identifying and assessing emerging platforms, formats, and approaches to strengthen how the foundation builds awareness, shapes narratives, and sustains support for its advocacy priorities.
What You'll Do - Work across communications, federal government relations, and program teams to align digital efforts with broader advocacy, policy, and narrative goals.
- Monitor emerging digital trends, platforms, and audience behaviors to identify new partners and opportunities, translating insights into recommendations that strengthen the foundation's digital communications strategy in the U.S. and Canada.
- Work with key stakeholders to define measurable campaign objectives, target audiences, and digital strategies, including new partnerships, to reach them.
- Pilot creative approaches to digital storytelling, including partnerships with new organizations, content creators, and nontraditional media platforms.
- Identify, evaluate, and manage agencies, consultants, creators, and digital vendors supporting campaign development and execution.
- Develop campaign concepts that partners, grantees, and validators can adopt and amplify across their networks.
- Partner with insights teams and vendors to apply audience research and performance data to targeting, messaging, and channel strategy, using a test-and-learn approach to refine strategies, improve effectiveness, and share key learnings.
- Support partners and grantees in understanding and applying the latest digital trends to strengthen their own communications efforts.
- Model behaviors that support an inclusive culture, escalating issues promptly to appropriate stakeholders.
Your Experience - Deep understanding of the U.S. digital, media, and cultural landscape, with the ability to anticipate trends and translate them into forward-looking communications strategies.
- Extensive experience leading digital communications strategy for advocacy organizations or political campaigns in the United States, with a track record of shaping high-impact, national or multi-state efforts.
- Experience developing and managing partnerships with influencers, creators, and external organizations to extend reach and drive coordinated campaign impact.
- Demonstrated expertise in designing and executing integrated, audience-first digital campaigns that influence perception, mobilize stakeholders, and drive measurable results.
- Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives involving multiple internal and external stakeholders, including vendors, with strong project management and execution discipline.
- Comfort with complexity and ambiguity, paired with strong judgment and strategic decision-making.
- Experience operating in nonprofit, advocacy, political, or other mission-driven environments, with a strong understanding of how communications drives policy and public engagement outcomes.
- Ability to travel up to 20% domestic and international
*Must have unrestricted work authorization in the country where this position is located.
The Foundation does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. This includes direct company sponsorship and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g.: H-1B, O-1, L-1, E, OPT, STEM-OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc.).
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The salary range for this role is $173,000 - $259,600 We recognize high-wage market differences in Seattle and Washington D.C., where our offices are located. The range for this role in these locations is $190,300 - $285,500. As a mission-driven organization, we strive to balance competitive pay with our mission. New hires salaries are typically between the range minimum and the salary range midpoint. Actual placement in the range will depend on a candidate's job-related skills, experience, and expertise, as evaluated during the interview process.
Hiring RequirementsAs part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment will be contingent upon successful completion of a background check.
