Communications Manager, Americas & Global

The Ideal Candidate CLASP seeks an experienced, creative communications professional to manage communications and advocacy for our program portfolios across the Americas and global initiatives, with a particular focus on Brazil, Canada, Mexico, the US, and our global portfolio that focuses on high-emitting appliances like air conditioning, heat pumps, and motor systems.
The Communications Manager will be responsible for designing, implementing and measuring communications strategies that elevate CLASP’s work and impact in these areas. The successful candidate will be a strategic thinker and skilled storyteller, with a strong understanding of how communications advance CLASP’s mission and theory of change. We are seeking an agile communications professional with well-honed listening skills, a flexible interpersonal approach, adept at distilling complex information into clear messages, and who can adapt to evolving contexts and priorities.
This inaugural role will report to the Communications Director and will work closely with CLASP’s regional program leads, global communications team, and external partners.
Key Responsibilities Lead CLASP’s Communications in the Americas and for global initiatives: Oversee a dedicated communications workstream for CLASP’s work in the Americas and major global initiatives. Build strategic communications work plans in support of CLASP’s programmatic objectives and research and oversee execution thereof. Supervise one or more direct reports.
Digital Content Creation: Design, develop, and maintain an editorial calendar of high-quality, impact-focused articles, video scripts, newsletter posts, presentations, and social media posts to effectively communicate climate and sustainable development topics to diverse global audiences. Oversee and review supervisee content for clarity, meaning, organization, and impact; engage in feedback and iteration.
Design Communication Campaigns: Design, develop, and implement innovative communications strategies and campaigns for projects.
Stakeholder Engagement: Work closely with colleagues across CLASP and our partner organizations to deliver ongoing communication tasks and global communications campaigns. Interface with partner NGOs, government representatives and others. Design, craft and deliver compelling presentations to further CLASP’s work for external stakeholders. Prepare partner toolkits.
Event Communications: Prepare and deliver CLASP communications at leading international events; plan webinars and events.
Communicate Cutting Edge Research: Support our teams in improving, packaging and promoting reports for maximum impact, through press engagement, newsletters, website stories, and social media.
Oversee Subcontractors: Secure and collaborate with consultants (e.g. media consultants, writers, graphic designers, etc) to complement CLASP’s expertise and expand bandwidth. Ensure CLASP communications subcontractors working in the Americas and Europe are appropriately oriented and/or engaged; provide quality assurance to confirm the work produced is in line with the CLASP brand and objectives.
Track Progress: Monitor and evaluate the performance of external communications products and identify opportunities for improvement.
Business Development: Contribute to the expansion and continuity of CLASP’s work through donor proposal development and reporting, in collaboration with colleagues in CLASP’s regional offices.
Plan and Budget: Work with research, program, and communications teams to develop communication budgets and schedules. Provide communications expertise – when / where is the right time/place to launch for maximal impact. Drive innovation.
Required Qualifications 6–8 years of previous communications experience in an international context.
Bachelor’s degree in communications, media, international relations, public relations, digital design, or a related field.
Excellent written and digital communication skills, with demonstrated experience producing content across a variety of formats.
Proven ability to take complex, technical ideas and turn them into compelling stories for web, print publications, briefing papers, digital media, and social media.
Demonstrated experience supervising and developing team members.
Confident and polished verbal communication skills, with the ability to connect with and influence people in a diverse, international work environment.
Effective project and team coordination skills, with strong time management and organizational abilities and the capacity to manage multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously.
Strong interpersonal skills and an orientation toward working in a collaborative environment. Ability to maintain composure and flexibility under tight deadlines.
Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud applications and Microsoft Office Suite.
Preferred Qualifications Previous communications experience within Latin America strongly preferred.
Experience communicating on climate mitigation, adaptation, sustainable development, public policy, public health, or related environmental fields.
Professional experience in journalism, media production, advertising, or publishing.
Experience writing funding proposals and donor communications.
Portuguese, Spanish, and/or French language fluency highly preferred.
Strong visual eye and experience maintaining organizational branding and visual identity standards
Compensation and Location CLASP provides its employees with a highly competitive salary that is benchmarked annually with other non-profit organizations in the DC metropolitan area. CLASP also provides a comprehensive benefits package, including fully paid health insurance for individuals and competitive rates for families/dependents, unlimited leave and all federal holidays, an impressive match of employee contributions to the 403b retirement plan and a collegial office environment that supports professional development, wellness and flexible telecommuting options.
The Communications Manager will be based in CLASP’s Washington, DC office. Candidates must have legal authorization to work in their country of residence. Travel (domestic and international) is required, approximately quarterly. Evening or weekend hours may be required. The salary range for this position is $85,500.00 - $128,250.00.

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