UNPAID VOLUNTEER - Head of Communications

The Blockchain & Climate Institute is seeking a Head of Communications to lead its global public profile, narrative authority, and messaging strategy across platforms. The ideal candidate is a strategic storyteller with a journalist's instinct, a diplomat's precision, and a leader's clarity.

Requirements

• Develop and execute BCI's global communications strategy, aligned with institutional goals
• Advise the Director-General and senior leadership on message development and positioning
• Serve as the final approver for all public-facing messaging, tone, and media framing
• Elevate BCI's influence in public discourse, policy conversations, and the climate-tech space
• Manage communications leads across PR, media, editorial, social, and design functions
• Oversee the BCI News Service and official editorial calendar
• Lead high-level publications, policy briefs, and strategic content development
• Ensure consistency and clarity across all institutional materials
• Guide high-profile media engagements, event communications, and COP-related coverage
• Frame the organisation's voice as a credible contributor to international dialogues on climate innovation
• Supervise and mentor PR officers, writers, designers, and platform coordinators
• Establish clear workflows, approval processes, and content standards
• Foster collaboration across teams and ensure timely delivery of all communications outputs
• Own the global comms strategy
• Advise senior leadership and the Director-General on messaging
• Lead high-level media engagements and flagship reports
• Manage team leads across PR, editorial, social, and design
• Approve or sets media angles for all external messaging
• Align content with global policy developments and multilateral diplomacy
• Build institutional influence and oversees public affairs alignment
• Frame the organisation's identity and thought leadership

Benefits

• Direct impact on the global climate-tech narrative
• Leadership experience in a multilateral-facing, policy-driven nonprofit
• Exposure to global climate summits, UN engagements, and international working groups
• A chance to build a dynamic communications function with global reach

Originally posted on Himalayas