Movement Communications Specialist

Movement Communications Specialist

Summary

The Wikimedia Foundation seeks a Movement Communications Specialist with a deep understanding of multilingual and multicultural storytelling, digital content creation, and community building. Reporting to the Manager, Movement Communications, you will be part of the Movement Communications team within the larger Communications Department. The Movement Communications team works to build trust and shared understanding between the Wikimedia Foundation and the over 300,000 Wikimedia volunteers and affiliate members around the world. Through this role, you will work on collaborative projects with movement members and Foundation teams tell the story of our collective work, connecting it to the mission and celebrating contributions towards its success. 

This is a highly collaborative role, with opportunities to impact the way that the Wikimedia Foundation is positioned within the larger free knowledge ecosystem. You will be in regular communication with movement members doing impactful work, as well as with Foundation staff leading on our organizational goals and priorities. You will be critical in aligning work, as well as communicating and coordinating for effective collaboration. You will lead and execute communications campaigns and events with our global audience, ensuring content and storytelling are consistent with the Foundation’s values, voice and tone. 

Note: We are a global team that works closely with Wikimedia volunteers. We are looking for candidates based remotely in a timezone between UTC -7 to UTC +1 to be able to collaborate with colleagues and volunteers across time zones. See countries the Wikimedia Foundation can hire in below.

You are responsible for:

• Consistency: Building consistency and increasing discoverability and centralization of Foundation communications aimed at the movement.
• Storytelling: Conceiving of creative, accessible and translatable storytelling methods across a variety of different mediums and across a broad range of topics, from product development to governance to political advocacy and more.
• Connections: Connecting with movement members across cultures to understand how the Foundation can best support and showcase their work.
• Event organizing: Supporting the organizing of and communications around community events, including our global annual flagship event, Wikimania.
• Board communications: Supporting leadership, including the Board of Trustees and executives, in connecting with the movement through convenings and communications.
• Metrics: Measuring and reporting on success towards established goals.
• Team support: Supporting the larger Movement Communications team, as well as the Communications Department, on movement-facing communications.
• Any other work as delegated by the Movement Communications Team leadership.

Skills and Experience:

• 4+ years of experience in multicultural and multilingual communications.
• Experience building relationships with a range of stakeholders and delivering projects to meet diverse stakeholder needs.
• Experience facilitating conversations, working with push-back and feedback, and building consensus in contexts where stakeholders may have conflicting views and priorities.
• Background in journalism, community or political organizing, advocacy, mission-driven communications, or any similar field.
• Experience telling compelling stories across languages and cultures in a range of formats on a variety of topics.
• Experience with different forms of content creation, including graphics and basic audio and video content.
• Experience running large-scale virtual and in-person events.
• Fluency in at least one other language.

Additionally, we’d love it if you have:

• Experience of contributing to Wikimedia projects or editing wikis.
• Experience working in remote-first, globally distributed environments.

The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared knowledge, and that everyone should be able to access that knowledge freely. We host Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive. 

The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable, not-for-profit organization that relies on donations. We receive donations from millions of individuals around the world, with an average donation of about $15. We also receive donations through institutional grants and gifts. The Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA.

As an equal opportunity employer, the Wikimedia Foundation values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace. We encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race, traits historically associated with race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy or related medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics.

The Wikimedia Foundation is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based 40+ countries*. Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are set in a way that is competitive, equitable, and consistent with our values and culture. The anticipated annual pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is US$76,765  to US$117,457 with multiple individualized factors, including cost of living in the location, being the determinants of the offered pay. For applicants located outside of the US, the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire. We neither ask for nor take into consideration the salary history of applicants. The compensation for a successful applicant will be based on their skills, experience and location. 

*Please note that we are currently able to hire in the following countries: Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Peru, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States of America and Uruguay.  Our non-US employees are hired through a local third party Employer of Record (EOR). 

We periodically review this list to streamline to ensure alignment with our hiring requirements. 

All applicants can reach out to their recruiter to understand more about the specific pay range for their location during the interview process.

If you are a qualified applicant requiring assistance or an accommodation to complete any step of the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected] or +1 (415) 839-6885.

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