GSCC | Strategic Communications Associate, Climate Litigation

How you'll contribute

To succeed in the role, you will:

• Develop and deliver core communications outputs: Deliver the global climate litigation communications strategy by drafting and distributing a wide range of high-impact communications materials, including press releases, media backgrounders/briefings, social media content, campaign toolkits, and event communications support.
• Craft targeted messaging: Develop audience-specific messaging to support short- and long-term campaign goals and ensure consistent, impactful messaging across platforms and regions.
• Support media relations: Foster strong relationships with journalists covering climate, energy, and litigation. Help brief reporters, pitch story angles, and boost understanding of the implications of climate-related litigation.
• Lead on digital strategy: Work with digital experts and partner colleagues to develop and ensure successful implementation of digital strategies.
• Partner and desk support: Work closely with partner organisations and GSCC national teams worldwide, building high-trust relationships to coordinate joint communications and align strategy.
• Impact monitoring and reporting: Keep track of media hits and campaign outcomes. Collect, evaluate, and contribute to tracking data to help assess impact, refine cross-border strategies, and improve future campaign activities.

Our ideal candidate has

• Experience in media relations tactics, including pitching, messaging coordination, briefing journalists, and identifying or preparing spokespeople.
• Experience working across digital platforms and channels to achieve communications goals.
• Outstanding partnership skills, with the ability to support, influence and coordinate a range of partners towards common objectives.
• Experience identifying, briefing, and supporting diverse spokespeople, including experts, community representatives, and campaign partners.
• Experience crafting clear, compelling written content targeted to specific audiences and platforms.
• Highly organised with strong project management skills; able to bring clarity to complex multi-stakeholder environments, work independently, and meet tight deadlines.
• Has a baseline understanding of key climate and energy issues, and has experience of translating technical issues into accessible, effective communications outputs.
• High levels of self-motivation, with the ability to work quickly as part of dispersed international teams and to pivot quickly to reactive communications in response to events.
• Versatile and adaptable, with the necessary skills to flourish in a fast-paced work environment and work across time zones using tools including the Google Workspace suite and Slack.
• Fluency in written and spoken English, our working language; additional languages are an asset.
• The disposition to work generously with colleagues in a high-trust global community of peers.
• Committed to an inclusive and empowering approach to addressing climate change.

Why join us?

• Be part of a remote-first, international network of professionals working on climate, energy and nature and work with a bunch of dynamic, culturally diverse individuals who combine their passion to make a difference with a rigorous and results-oriented approach to work.
• 6 offline days (with no calls or meetings) per year to focus on your work.
• Reduced working time on Fridays during the Dry Season (summer).
• Access to our employee assistance program to support your mental health and personal development.
• Supplementary paid business closure for end-of-year holidays.
• Maternity leave matched to 20 weeks for countries where regulation allows less than that.
• Enjoy regular opportunities to connect and collaborate with colleagues around the world.
• A full-time position with an employment or consultant contract, subject to location, for 12 months, with possible renewal after one year.

Location: flexibly remote, ideally within +/- 3 hours CET. Europe: France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland, The Netherlands, UK. Africa: Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa. Some international travel will be required. We may be able to provide co-working spaces in some locations. Only candidates with the right to work in their location will be considered.

Salary / Fee: Meliore sets compensation levels through a systematic alignment with local market data, taking into account the responsibility level of each role or the expected level of services and the skills and experience of the selected candidate. We apply a consistent, equitable, compensation policy, and provide data on our calculations and pay or fee ranges, in all locations where we operate. Our compensation practices reflect our commitment to fairness, inclusion, and accountability, and are regularly reviewed to ensure alignment with evolving market standards and organisational values.