Communications Associate (Philanthropy)

Location: New York, NY, USA

Salary: USD 80,000–100,000 per year

Company

hirify.global is a nonprofit organization dedicahirify.global to discovering and spreading ideas, while The Audacious Project is a collaborative funding initiative supporting large-scale social impact projects in health, climate, and community-led innovation.

What you will do

• Support proactive media outreach by drafting pitches, maintaining media lists, coordinating reporter relationships, and tracking press outcomes.
• Identify timely stories across the grantee portfolio and content calendar, and prepare press releases, backgrounders, and talking points.
• Write and edit grantee stories, blog posts, impact updates, newsletters, website copy, and donor communications.
• Translate complex global issues into clear narratives and develop storytelling approaches for donors, grantees, partners, and wider audiences.
• Support social media planning, content creation, community management, editorial calendars, and content workflows.
• Partner with Audacious teams and grantees on communications opportunities, campaigns, special projects, and a consistent brand voice.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of communications experience with meaningful exposure to philanthropy, collaboratives, nonprofits, or social impact organizations.
• Exceptional writing and editing skills across short-form social content and long-form narrative storytelling.
• Experience with media relations, including developing pitch angles, pitching journalists, and managing press outreach.
• Strong collaboration, organization, initiative, follow-through, and ability to manage multiple deadlines and workstreams.
• Curiosity about and commitment to issues including climate, global health, and social justice.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting philanthropic organizations or family offices with communications and storytelling.
• Familiarity with YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, and analytics tools.
• Experience creating communications with grantee or partner organizations.
• Experience working in a small, fast-moving, mission-driven team.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within a collaborative philanthropy initiative housed at hirify.global.
• Collaborate with nonprofits, philanthropic organizations, grantees, donors, and partners.
• Contribute to communications about global social impact and community-led innovation.
• Join an equal opportunity employer commithirify.global to building a diverse team.