About the role
This position is with the Global Strategic Communications Council (GSCC), a global network of communications professionals in the field of climate, energy and nature. GSCC is a programme hosted by the Meliore Foundation.
We're looking for an innovative and experienced France Desk Lead, Strategic Communications and Campaigns. The right candidate will have a unique combination of skills and want to play a major role in tackling climate change and galvanising action, helping to speed up the energy transition in France, Europe, and beyond.
You’ll be joining our 3 person French desk within the Europe Team, leading GSCC France’s work to increase political attention and action on climate. Overall we are a 25 person Europe wide team of campaigners, media and digital experts who use strategic communications to get climate action to the top of the political agenda.
GSCC team members devise and deliver campaigns, and give strategic advice, communications and outreach support to partners. We work as part of a global network of communications experts to enhance the public debate on climate change and its solutions on a broader level. The work will involve maintaining trusted relationships with key journalists and stakeholders in France.
Reporting to the Senior Manager, Europe Countries, this role requires developing a France strategy and specific campaigns in line with the overarching Europe strategy, maintaining and building our network of partners and working with French colleagues to increase political and media attention to our key issues.
If this sounds like you, we'd love for you to apply.
How you’ll contribute
- Develop and implement the communication and campaigns strategy for France
- Lead and manage the French desk team, setting clear goals and providing mentorship to junior colleagues
- Build and maintain relationships with key partners in France, ranging from NGOs and academics to businesses, and offer strategic advice that supports campaign objectives.
- Build a progressive spokesperson network, identifying partners and leaders to highlight the need for climate action; commission research and analysis to support this.
- Develop and maintain trusted relationships with key journalists and editors across mainstream and specialist media in France.
- Deliver newsworthy, high quality communications interventions (press releases, quotes, op-eds, social media content, voices for broadcast media) in line with strategic objectives. Monitor and evaluate the impact and outcomes of work.
- Pitch stories to French media that drive climate action, using timely, targeted messaging tailored to resonate with local audiences
- Make judgement calls on how and when interventions should be made in order to influence the public or political debate and advance climate action. Be reactive to opportunities.
- Contribute to digital campaigns in collaboration with colleagues and partners
- Closely following the political and media debates in France to identify opportunities for engagement and acting as a source for intelligence for colleagues and partners.
- Any other duties to be assigned from time to time.
Our ideal candidate has
- Extensive experience in a media campaigning role, with deep knowledge of the challenges and opportunities in climate campaigns.
- Ability to craft and pitch compelling, media-worthy stories that cut through noise and resonate with French audiences
- Strong networking abilities to build and maintain relationships with key partners in the climate space.
- Project management skills to transform ideas into campaigns and communication outputs and manage their delivery, collaborating with various colleagues and experts.
- Proven experience managing teams, with a focus on fostering collaboration, mentoring junior members, and aligning the team around strategic goals
- The ability to monitor political debates across a range of climate and energy related issues, through media tracking and intel gathering.
- A self-starting attitude, capable of working independently to establish relationships and initiate projects.
- Solid understanding of campaign communications, with the ability to craft compelling media stories and advise partners on communication strategies.
- Experience working directly with journalists.
- Residency in France and fluency in French.
- Fluency in written and spoken English, our working language; additional languages are an asset.
- Genuine interest in and passion for addressing climate change.
- A generous, collaborative disposition in a high-trust global community of peers.
- Adaptable skills to thrive in a fast-paced, broad work environment, collaborating across time zones using tools like Zoom, Slack, and Google Workspace.
- A commitment to an inclusive and empowering approach to tackling climate change.
Why join us?
- Be part of a remote-first, international network of professionals working on climate, energy and nature. We offer coworking access in some locations.
- Work with a bunch of dynamic, culturally diverse individuals who combine their passion to make a difference with a rigorous and results-oriented approach to work.
- Enjoy regular opportunities to connect and collaborate with colleagues around the world.
- A full-time position with an employment contract. Only candidates with the right to work in their location will be considered.
Your future workplace
Through our work, we aim to contribute to a world with a safe and stable climate for current and future generations. We hope to build broad support for just, inclusive, and equitable solutions to the climate crisis. Our philanthropically funded work focuses on media debate and public discourse at the global level and in major economies across Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia and the Americas. We support a diverse range of partners across sectors and geographies, helping them add their voices, views and insights to the conversation.
A place to thrive!
We’re an international network that values genuine diversity. We know that tackling the climate emergency will need all of society and we want our network to be reflective of the richness of that society. We are looking for people who bring their best, most professional and effective selves to work. People who are respectful, kind and have a sense of fun. If that sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you.
Your ideas, perspectives, and lived experiences are key to how you go about your work. We encourage people from historically disadvantaged or underrepresented groups to apply.
