Deputy Director – Strategic Communications

Role Overview

• Develop coordinated communication strategies across iAlumbra's impact themes, integrated initiatives, and critical issues to influence policy, practice, and investment decisions.
• Craft key messages, narratives, and executive positioning in alignment with iAlumbra's theory of change and priorities.
• Oversee media strategy and press relations, ensuring disciplined and consistent messaging.
• Guide development of pitches, op-eds, and media outreach through external firms.
• Monitor media coverage and public perception metrics, ensuring insights inform daily strategy and execution.
• Lead long-horizon issue framing strategies — for example, a year-long agenda-setting effort on desertification, water scarcity, and watershed restoration — building public understanding before introducing initiatives and solutions.
• Partner closely with public affairs and policy leadership to align narrative and advocacy strategy, including engagement with federal stakeholders.
• Lead crisis communications planning and response in close coordination with leadership.
• Support proactive reputation protection by ensuring disciplined narrative practices, role clarity, and risk awareness across initiatives.
• Coordinate communication alignment with regional teams and engage communications and marketing staff across the ecosystem.
• Oversee content strategy across formats — press releases, speeches, opinion pieces, digital content, events, and knowledge products.
• Ensure seamless integration between Mexico City / national communications and Baja California Sur / regional execution.

Requirements

• Preferred academic backgrounds: Communications, Journalism, Political Science, Public Policy, International Relations, Environmental Policy / Sustainability, or Economics and Social Sciences with a strong communications specialization.
• A postgraduate degree (Master's level) in Public Policy, Strategic Communications, Environmental Policy, Sustainability, International Affairs, or a related field is considered a strong advantage, though not mandatory.
• 8–10+ years of professional experience in strategic communications, public affairs, or policy-adjacent communications roles.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing high-level communications strategies in complex and fast-moving environments.
• Proven experience working in Mexico, with familiarity with the country's policy, media, and stakeholder landscape.
• Strong experience managing or collaborating with cross-sector stakeholders, including government institutions, private sector leaders, civil society organizations, and community actors.
• Experience in policy advocacy, issue management, and narrative framing processes, particularly around complex public-interest topics.
• Experience guiding and managing external communications firms, PR agencies, or consultants to ensure quality control and strategic alignment.
• Exposure to environmental sustainability, natural resources, climate, regenerative development, or related impact sectors is highly desirable.
• Full bilingual proficiency in Spanish and English — written and spoken — for executive-level positioning and global ecosystem coordination.
• Strong understanding of media monitoring, sentiment analysis, reach, share of voice, and how to translate insights into strategy.
• Ability to adapt tone and narrative depending on the audience: policymakers, investors, media, community leaders, and international partners.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, aligned to market
• Permanent, full-time contract
• Individual performance-based annual bonus
• Medical insurance and benefits in accordance with Mexican labor laws
• Leadership opportunities in policy-adjacent communications and sustainability
• A space for innovation and high-impact strategy
• Collaboration with a global team and exposure to senior leaders across the iAlumbra ecosystem