Content and Ecosystem Communications Lead

What you’ll do

• Own the narrative and communications framework for ARIA’s Activation Partners, and for ARIA’s wider set of partnership-led initiatives (e.g. Innovator Circles), articulating their role, surfacing progress and learning, and integrating partner activity into ARIA’s wider brand and ecosystem story.
• Design and deliver communications approaches that support partnership-building, convening, and long-term ecosystem trust, aligned with ARIA’s mission and values.
• Work closely with internal teams and external partners to ensure consistent, high-quality representation of ARIA and its mission across partnership activity, while allowing space for partner voice and experimentation. 

• Support the Director of Communications and Engagement on executive communications, helping to identify and shape strategic opportunities for executive engagement, and overseeing their translation into high-impact external outputs, including speeches, thought leadership, public appearances, and opinion pieces.
• Work with ARIA’s executive team to develop clear, confident messaging for external engagements.
• Help ensure coherence and consistency across senior leaders’ external communications.
  
  

• Act as the primary translator of ARIA’s operating model, strategy, and evolving priorities – ensuring these narratives evolve coherently and are translated and applied consistently across communications so they resonate with scientists, policymakers, partners, and the public.
• Oversee the development of ARIA’s key organisational materials, including the Corporate Plan, to reinforce ARIA’s public value, accountability, and long-term mission.
• Shape content for ARIA’s flagship moments and convenings, including the ARIA Summit, sourcing and curating impactful stories, liaising across ARIA’s ecosystem and partnerships, and ensuring narrative coherence and a distinctive, high-quality experience.

• Manage the Brand & Content Manager, setting priorities, providing strategic direction, and supporting high-quality execution.
• Design and maintain an effective resourcing model for brand and content delivery, including the commissioning and management of freelance and contractor support where needed.
• Oversee ARIA’s content strategy across owned channels, ensuring content is distinctive, purposeful and aligned with strategic objectives.
• Work closely with the Programme Communications & Engagement Lead to identify, curate, and elevate programme stories and progress that strengthen ARIA’s brand, ecosystem narrative, and executive communications.
• Input into press, media, and stakeholder engagement where organisational brand, ecosystem activity, or executive positioning are central.
• Contribute to the ongoing evolution of ARIA’s communications ways of working as the organisation scales, sharing insight, refining processes, and strengthening standards across the team.

Who you are

• Extensive experience leading brand, communications, or engagement work in complex, fast-moving, and high-growth or early-stage organisations.
• You have a strong track record of driving communications and engagement initiatives from inception to delivery, including multi-channel campaigns and high-impact content.
• You have an exceptionally sharp editorial eye, with the judgement to decide what matters, what doesn’t, and how to communicate with clarity, originality, and restraint.
• You have experience managing and developing teams to deliver high-quality content and run effective communications channels at pace.
• You are confident working across cross-functional teams, aligning diverse stakeholders to deliver end products to a high standard.
• You have experience building and managing senior stakeholder and partner networks, and understand how communications supports long-term trust and collaboration.
• You are politically astute and news-savvy, with a strong instinct for how narratives land with both specialist and general audiences.
• You are excited by an environment that feels like a fast-paced, early-stage organisation, and comfortable operating with ambiguity and evolving priorities.
• You are passionate about improving the world through science and innovation, and motivated by the opportunity to help build a distinctive, credible brand and world-changing community.

How to apply