Senior Communications Specialist

We are hiring a Senior Communications Specialist! Razom We Stand offers a fantastic opportunity to join our team and stand against fossil-fuel-funded aggression.

We are seeking a professional to play a key role in our international communications team, planning and delivering communications around our key campaigns.

This is a full-time, remote position. Please follow the instructions in the link to submit your application.

*Please apply through the contact listed on our website, and the hiring team will review your application. Unfortunately, I am unable to respond to personal messages regarding hiring inquiries.

Posted by: Svitlana Romanko

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About the Role

As Senior Communications Specialist, you will be a core contributor in our international communications team, bringing a higher level of strategic autonomy and communications expertise to our campaign work.

You will take significant ownership over how we shape and deliver our narratives across media, content, digital, and partner channels. You will work independently on complex communications workstreams, exercise editorial judgement on messaging, and play an active role in shaping communications strategy alongside the Head of Communications.

This is not a management role — you will not oversee direct reports — but you are expected to operate with a high degree of initiative, bring fresh thinking to how we communicate, and contribute to raising the overall quality, coherence, and impact of our communications outputs. You will be a trusted and experienced practitioner who sets a strong example through the quality of your work.

What You’ll Do

1. Campaign Communications Strategy

• Support development of integrated communications plans for major campaigns, translating campaign goals into detailed narrative arcs, audience segmentation, message hierarchies, and channel strategies.
• Drive the creation of compelling, audience-specific messaging frameworks for EU policymakers, journalists, civil society, and the general public — with a high degree of independent editorial judgement.
• Contribute to political and media moment planning, anticipating upcoming events (votes, summits, reports, anniversaries) well in advance and building out proactive communications plans accordingly.
• Identify and flag strategic communications opportunities that the wider team may not have seen, bringing a more experienced perspective to how we position our work.
• Conduct research and analyse developments in geopolitics, energy markets, and climate policy, producing research-driven content and insights to inform communications strategy, media engagement, and campaigns.

2. Media Relations & Outreach

• Support in building high-value media relationships, acting as a supporting point of contact for senior journalists, editors, and correspondents covering energy, climate, Ukraine, and European politics.
• Draft and independently own the delivery of press releases, media advisories, op-eds, and pitch correspondence to a high standard, requiring minimal revision.
• Develop and regularly update strategic media engagement plans, identifying priority outlets and reporters for key campaigns and ensuring consistent, informed outreach.
• Design and run press briefings, journalist roundtables, and media calls for major launches — from logistics through to content and follow-up.
• Monitor media coverage trends and reputational signals, providing regular insights and recommendations to the Head of Communications on how to adjust our media approach.

3. Content, Editorial & Narrative

• Take ownership of complex editorial outputs: in-depth op-eds, long-form campaign copy, talking-point frameworks, Q&As for spokespeople, and strategic messaging guides.
• Act as an editorial quality control point for key external communications, reviewing and sharpening content produced across the team before publication.
• Maintain and update Razom We Stand’s core narrative and messaging library — ensuring it is accurate, consistent, and regularly refreshed with input from the latest messaging research to reflect the political and media context.
• Work with designers, translators, and policy colleagues to produce high-quality, accessible materials that communicate complex research and policy in ways that resonate with non-specialist audiences.

4. Digital Communications & Campaigns

• Contribute high-quality copy and strategic support to the digital team for campaign content across social media, email newsletters, and web channels.
• Bring creative and strategic ideas on how to tell our campaign stories in digital formats, including innovative content formats, campaign stunts, or digital moments.
• Collaborate with the Digital Communications Manager to ensure that digital content and press strategy are fully aligned and mutually reinforcing.
• Provide surge support and strategic input during major campaign moments, including during peak periods or colleague absences.
• Support digital work during holidays or absences, with drafting content and posting on all social media channels

5. Partner & Coalition Communications

• Serve as a point of contact for communications leads in partner organisations and coalitions, building trusted, peer-level relationships.
• Take a leading role in designing and coordinating joint communications moments — shared media pushes, coalition statements, co-branded campaigns — ensuring coherence and impact across organisations.
• Develop high-quality partner communications toolkits and resources: sample messages, spokesperson guidance, media templates, and strategic framing briefs.
• Represent Razom We Stand in multi-organisation communications planning meetings and working groups, bringing a strategic perspective and strong editorial input.

6. Rapid Response & Issues Management

• Support on rapid response during significant news moments, helping draft reactive statements, press lines, and internal briefings with speed and confidence.
• Monitor news and social media with a strategic eye, identifying not only tactical opportunities but also reputational risks, narrative shifts, and emerging issues that require a communications response.
• Provide high-quality written products (statements, reactive quotes, holding lines) under tight time pressure and with limited supervision.

7. Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning

• Contribute to the design and delivery of communications performance tracking, defining relevant KPIs and metrics for reach, engagement, and media impact across campaigns.
• Support production of thorough post-campaign evaluations and lessons learned reports, drawing on qualitative and quantitative data to inform future strategy.
• Maintain shared monitoring and tracking tools, ensuring they are fit-for-purpose, up to date, and useful for the wider team.
• Help to translate performance data into clear insights and recommendations — communicating findings in ways that are accessible to non-specialists across the organisation.

8. Collaboration & Team Contribution

• Work closely with the Head of Communications, Digital Communications Manager, and Ukraine Communications Specialist as a senior peer in the team.
• Collaborate with policy, campaign, and research colleagues to ensure communications output is grounded in substantive knowledge and strategically timed.
• Contribute to building a strong, high-performing team culture: sharing knowledge, providing constructive peer feedback, and modelling excellent communication practices.
• Help onboard and orient newer communications colleagues by sharing expertise, frameworks, and institutional knowledge — without formal management responsibilities.

Who You Are

Experience

• You have at least 5-9 years of experience in communications, media relations, advocacy campaigns, or journalism, with a strong track record of delivering complex, multi-channel communications work.
• You have led communications workstreams for significant campaigns, and you are comfortable taking ownership end-to-end without close supervision.
• You have a network of media contacts in energy, climate, European politics, or related fields, and you are confident in senior-level media engagement.
• You have produced or contributed to high-quality, complex editorial output — op-eds, messaging frameworks, strategy documents, campaign briefs — with minimal revision.
• You have experience in international or multi-stakeholder environments, including cross-organisational coordination or coalition communications work.

Skills

• You write and communicate in English to a professional/native standard — with sharpness, precision, and narrative instinct.
• You think and work strategically: you understand how individual communications actions connect to broader campaign goals, and you make those connections explicit in your work.
• You exercise strong editorial judgement: you can assess what a story needs, what angle will land with a given audience, and how to frame complex issues simply and powerfully.
• You are highly organised and self-directed: you manage multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment, stay on top of shifting contexts, and follow through reliably.
• You are confident with media monitoring, analytics, and reporting tools (e.g., Meltwater, Cision, Muck Rack, or equivalents), and you use data to inform strategy.
• You work well across teams and with external partners: you communicate clearly, build trust quickly, and navigate diverse working styles and cultures with ease.

Bonus Points

• You have deep substantive knowledge of climate, energy policy, Ukraine, Eastern European geopolitics, or EU political processes.
• You have experience working in international NGOs, advocacy coalitions, or think tanks operating in European or global policy spaces.
• You have a background in journalism or editorial roles that gives you a strong instinct for newsworthiness and media timing.

Languages

• Fluent/professional-level English is essential, as this role requires writing for publication on a daily basis.
• Additional languages — particularly Ukrainian, French, German, Polish, or Spanish — are an advantage but not required.

What We Offer

Meaningful work: Through your work, you will be directly contributing to achieving a just peace in Ukraine, climate justice, energy security, and a safer, fairer Europe. A small international team that values kindness, trust, and shared responsibility. Space to operate at the frontier of international advocacy communications, working with experienced colleagues across campaigns, policy, and research. This is an opportunity to do consequential work with real visibility and genuine strategic influence.

Benefits

24 days of annual vacation time, plus an extra day off on your birthday.
Eight annual sick/personal leave days.
Four extra bank holidays every year.
Staff-wide collective days off at year-end
Laptop allowance (up to €1,200).
Flexible working arrangements within a dynamic and mission-driven team.

How to Apply

If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you. Please send your CV to [click apply] with the subject line: Application — Senior Communications Specialist — International Campaigns