Global Media Director
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 18 Awst 2025 |
|---|---|
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 07 Medi 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | London, UK |
| Gweithio o bell: | Hybrid - gweithio o bell hyd at 2 ddiwrnod yr wythnos |
| Cwmni: | Human Rights Watch |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: |
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FULL-TIME JOB VACANCY
GLOBAL MEDIA DIRECTOR
Media Department
Application Deadline: September 7, 2025
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is seeking a visionary, digitally savvy, and journalistically grounded communications leader to serve as its Global Media Director. This role will oversee HRW’s global media, multimedia and audience engagement operations, lead brand strategy, reputation management, and shape how HRW communicates in a rapidly evolving digital and geopolitical landscape.
Responsibilities
External Communications
1. Develop and execute global communications strategies to maximize the reach of HRW’s research and advocacy.
2. Ensure that HRW’s international voice and perspective are present in key global debates, and that opportunities are seized for injecting a human rights perspective into global public-policy conversations.
3. Identify and target diverse global audiences across traditional, digital, and emerging platforms, grounded in audience research, trends, and analytics.
4. Translate complex human rights research into clear, powerful storytelling that resonates with news media, policy makers, donors, and the public.
5. Ensure editorial excellence and journalistic rigor in all public-facing content.
6. Refine HRW’s approach to audience engagement by guiding how we develop engaging and educational digital content as well as advocacy materials help advance policy goals and promote human rights values.
7. Advance digital transformation by building out best-in-class practices for social media, search engine optimization, web, multimedia storytelling, email marketing and performance analytics.
Brand Building and Reputation Management
1. Develop a clear and strategic approach to HRW’s storytelling that helps global audiences understand HRW’s mission, methods, and impact.
2. Strengthen and steward HRW’s brand to maximize both short and long-term social impact while reinforcing brand identity and cohesion.
3. Build strategies to achieve HRW’s fundraising goals and deepen stakeholder engagement.
4. Defend the organization against threats to its reputation, proactively identifying threats, shaping narratives, and managing crisis communications in high-pressure or sensitive situations.
Organizational Management and Leadership
1. Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership and divisional directors.
2. Engage with staff across the organization to understand HRW’s strategic plan and what changes we might need to make to our brand and media strategies to achieve our goals.
3. Attract, develop, motivate and retain a high-performing, diverse global team of communications professionals through effective leadership, inclusive recruitment, and on-going mentorship.
4. Build relationships with board members and donors to keep them informed of the latest developments and successes and to help identify additional prospective donors.
5. Collaborate with other senior executives within HRW to ensure the integration of a communications perspective into all HRW projects at early stages.
6. Drive, build and nurture consensus among passionate, internal stakeholders, garnering support to synthesize insights and galvanize action.
7. Champion HRW’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion—both in internal culture and external messaging.
Candidate Profile
We are interested in candidates that demonstrate the below skills and abilities, but are also keen to hear from those with significant track records of success in our sector that might not meet every point listed below, particularly if they come from a background that is traditionally underrepresented in the human rights sector.
How to Apply: Please apply by September 7, 2025, by visiting our online job portal at careers.hrw.org and attaching a cover letter and resume, preferably in PDF format.
GLOBAL MEDIA DIRECTOR
Media Department
Application Deadline: September 7, 2025
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is seeking a visionary, digitally savvy, and journalistically grounded communications leader to serve as its Global Media Director. This role will oversee HRW’s global media, multimedia and audience engagement operations, lead brand strategy, reputation management, and shape how HRW communicates in a rapidly evolving digital and geopolitical landscape.
Responsibilities
External Communications
1. Develop and execute global communications strategies to maximize the reach of HRW’s research and advocacy.
2. Ensure that HRW’s international voice and perspective are present in key global debates, and that opportunities are seized for injecting a human rights perspective into global public-policy conversations.
3. Identify and target diverse global audiences across traditional, digital, and emerging platforms, grounded in audience research, trends, and analytics.
4. Translate complex human rights research into clear, powerful storytelling that resonates with news media, policy makers, donors, and the public.
5. Ensure editorial excellence and journalistic rigor in all public-facing content.
6. Refine HRW’s approach to audience engagement by guiding how we develop engaging and educational digital content as well as advocacy materials help advance policy goals and promote human rights values.
7. Advance digital transformation by building out best-in-class practices for social media, search engine optimization, web, multimedia storytelling, email marketing and performance analytics.
Brand Building and Reputation Management
1. Develop a clear and strategic approach to HRW’s storytelling that helps global audiences understand HRW’s mission, methods, and impact.
2. Strengthen and steward HRW’s brand to maximize both short and long-term social impact while reinforcing brand identity and cohesion.
3. Build strategies to achieve HRW’s fundraising goals and deepen stakeholder engagement.
4. Defend the organization against threats to its reputation, proactively identifying threats, shaping narratives, and managing crisis communications in high-pressure or sensitive situations.
Organizational Management and Leadership
1. Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership and divisional directors.
2. Engage with staff across the organization to understand HRW’s strategic plan and what changes we might need to make to our brand and media strategies to achieve our goals.
3. Attract, develop, motivate and retain a high-performing, diverse global team of communications professionals through effective leadership, inclusive recruitment, and on-going mentorship.
4. Build relationships with board members and donors to keep them informed of the latest developments and successes and to help identify additional prospective donors.
5. Collaborate with other senior executives within HRW to ensure the integration of a communications perspective into all HRW projects at early stages.
6. Drive, build and nurture consensus among passionate, internal stakeholders, garnering support to synthesize insights and galvanize action.
7. Champion HRW’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion—both in internal culture and external messaging.
Candidate Profile
We are interested in candidates that demonstrate the below skills and abilities, but are also keen to hear from those with significant track records of success in our sector that might not meet every point listed below, particularly if they come from a background that is traditionally underrepresented in the human rights sector.
How to Apply: Please apply by September 7, 2025, by visiting our online job portal at careers.hrw.org and attaching a cover letter and resume, preferably in PDF format.