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Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL) is part of the emerging global movement of new economic thinking and doing. Our aim is to help create 21st century economies that are regenerative and distributive by design, so that they can meet the needs of all people within the means of the living planet. We call this Doughnut Economics. We work with changemakers worldwide – in communities, education, cities and places, business and government and more – who are turning the ideas of Doughnut Economics into transformative action and aiming to bring about systemic change. Our name is very intentional: we are focused on action and always learning through experiment.

DEAL’s small team is dynamic, works remotely, and is growing fast, thanks to the huge interest in our work internationally. We are currently 9 team members and are planning to create 3-5 more roles over the coming year. We work in the spirit of trust, reciprocity, integrity and experimentation and we aim to provide a collaborative and equitable working environment where every member of the team is set up to thrive. Given the strong interest in DEAL’s work, we now need a creative Communications Lead to manage and enhance DEAL’s communications activities and to help the spread and amplification of the ideas of Doughnut Economics and how they are being turned into action. In this newly-created role you will shape and manage DEAL's communications strategy, and be DEAL's public-facing voice on social media and in online communications. You will craft great content (both written and visual) for DEAL’s public communication channels, including our website and Community Platform, social media channels, and more. You will be working closely with DEAL’s directors (in their roles as Conceptual Lead and Strategic Lead), the Digital Platform Lead, and with our thematic leads (such as Communities & Art, Business & Enterprise, and Data Analysis & Research), as well as with the rest of the DEAL Team in day-to-day work. We are a distributed team, working and collaborating across several countries. We meet online two times a week for a 30 minute check-in, hold a 1 hour team meeting once a week, and collaborate in small groups as needed, throughout the day, using a mix of Zoom, Slack, Trello, Miro, collaborative documents, and other online tools.

- Be DEAL’s public-facing voice for social media and online communications - managing DEAL’s social media channels, producing DEAL's monthly newsletter and coordinating DEAL's contribution to wider storytelling such as in films, podcasts and print. - Create high-quality written content for DEAL, including writing, editing and copy editing content for social media, the DEAL Community Platform (e.g. news items and tools), and for other key documents, such as publications or funding applications. - Work with DEAL’s thematic leads and DEAL Community changemakers to write up compelling stories of action to amplify their work via the DEAL Community Platform. - Lead on DEAL’s overall communications strategy in line with DEAL’s vision and strategic plan. You will work closely with thematic leads & the Strategy Lead to create and deliver an effective and integrated communications plan. - Introduce and coordinate new communications formats and channels for the DEAL Team where relevant (such as videos, blogs, podcasts, templates for publications), working alongside external experts when needed. - Co-create, curate and champion consistent style and branding guidelines for DEAL (such as written and visual style, iconography and tone of voice), supporting other team members to use these to improve their own public communications. - Enhance DEAL’s visual communications by bringing powerful videos, photographs and graphics to DEAL's work - e.g. social media cards, gifs, event cards, website, external publications, and curating a library of digital images. - Engage with members of the DEAL Community in public forums - particularly on social media - to create safe and welcoming digital spaces, answer questions and facilitate community activity and engagement.

- You are committed to DEAL’s vision of a world in which people and the planet thrive in balance and you share DEAL’s values (page 8 of DEAL’s Strategic Plan) with a commitment to put them into practice. - You have experience crafting public-facing content on a professional basis for social media (e.g. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn) and other mediums, e.g. newsletters, videos, articles, or blogs. - You have some experience shaping, supporting or managing the overall communications strategy for an organisation. - You can write clear, compelling text for a variety of online and offline audiences, and you have experience editing and copy editing the written work of others. - You have experience in working with other creatives to create and deliver additional communications assets e.g. videos, images, graphic design assets, reports. - You have basic video editing skills (trimming, splicing, exporting). An ability to film or create videos and/or motion graphics from scratch would also be a bonus. - You have basic image editing skills (cropping, photo adjustment, bitmap and vector graphic editing). Additional image design and creation skills would be a bonus. - You have some knowledge - gained through either formal education, self-education, or practice-based learning - on topics such as new economics, political economy, sustainability, climate change, just transition, and other topics related to the socio-ecological transition. - You are a creative team player that brings with them a proactive approach. - You have the necessary skills to support the set-up and running of online webinars - including live streaming - hosted by other team members. - You have experience using content management systems for websites, newsletters, and social media, e.g. WordPress, Mailchimp, Moosend, Hootsuite, Loomly, etc.

This is a remote-working role. We welcome applications from outside the UK as part of our commitment to building a diverse team. At the same time we are still building our capacity to work as an international team and so we are offering this as a remote-working role based within -3/+3 hours of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). As we learn and evolve as a team, our intention is to expand this range further globally for future recruitments. Depending on Covid-19 restrictions and safety, there will be bi-annual travel for team gatherings. On some occasions you may be required to travel to take part in other gatherings relevant to your role. The role can be 28 or 35 hours per week, with a pro rata salary of £53,000. If you are based in the UK, we will offer an ongoing employment contract, subject to funding and strategy. If you are based outside the UK, we might only be able to offer you the job through a self-employed contract but we will explore other possible options depending on where you are based.

This job is available for international candidates.