Special Projects Manager (Communications Team)

Location: Anywhere (Open Globally); remote role with required working hours between UTC-8 and UTC+1.

Company

Independent nonprofit organization working to steer transformative technology toward benefiting life and away from extreme large-scale risks through grantmaking, education, and policy engagement.

What you will do

• Translate stakeholder requirements into clear creative and technical briefs, constructively resolving unclear, conflicting, or unscoped requests.
• Define project success criteria, coordinate internal and external stakeholders, and deliver communications, design, and digital projects.
• Identify skill gaps, source agencies and freelancers, and manage external delivery partners.
• Set quality standards, review deliverables against briefs, brand guidelines, and WCAG accessibility requirements, and lead structured review rounds.
• Ideate and develop digital products and manage multi-month initiatives such as international creative contests.
• Maintain brand consistency and the design system in collaboration with the website development agency.

Requirements

• Experience coordinating complex, multi-stakeholder projects and securing alignment among senior colleagues.
• Experience building or significantly improving intake, review, quality assurance, or approval workflows.
• Project management experience across design, communications, and/or digital or web projects, ideally involving external agencies.
• Strong quality judgment, confidence in rejecting inadequate deliverables, and the ability to offer alternatives under deadline pressure.
• Genuine interest in transformative technology risks and the organization’s mission.
• Ability to work in a timezone between the US West Coast and the UK (UTC-8 to UTC+1).

Nice to have

• Experience running contests, awards, grant rounds, festivals, or other participatory projects.
• Familiarity with CMS platforms and sufficient technical literacy to triage website issues with developers.
• Working knowledge of SEO, analytics tools such as GA4 and Search Console, and digital audience growth.
• Nonprofit, policy, advocacy, or campaign experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive nonprofit environment focused on reducing catastrophic risks and advancing positive futures.
• US hires receive health insurance, 24+ days of paid time off per year, and paid parental leave.
• US hires receive 401(k) matching and a work-from-home allowance for office supplies or equipment.
• Professional development budget available to US hires.

Hiring process

• Submit a resume, a portfolio of quality-assured design products if available, and short written answers about a proud digital or communications project and interest in the organization.
• Applications must be submitted through the website by 2 October 2026; email applications are not accepted.
• Questions may be directed to the jobs administration contact.