Creative Content Manager at GiveDirectly

About this role

• We are seeking a creative and entrepreneurial manager to grow GiveDirectly’s content collection system and improve our storytelling: empowering the people receiving cash transfers (recipients) to tell their own stories, enabling field teams to collect content that will drive awareness to the voices of people in poverty, and overseeing content that embodies GD’s values.
• You are a clear, succinct communicator with a track record of end-to-end ownership of systems management and production roadmaps. You are passionate about strong storytelling and lifting the voices of those at the bottom of the international development power structure to the top. 
• Unique and transparent recipient story collection has been vital in driving awareness for GiveDirectly’s work, enabling us to raise and deliver more funds to people in poverty. Public efforts like GDLive, as well as our short films and social media posts, bring public attention to specific lives of the people we seek to assist. Specific, unfiltered stories of the recipients donors reached encourages continued giving.  

What you’ll do:

Content Collection

• Leading editorial on creating written, photographed, and video content, while servings as an “internal journalist” finding and highlighting interesting aspects of our impact.
• Own information gathering and storytelling about each of our programs — in 2022, we ran two dozen programs in 11 countries.
• Lead freelancers + internal teams to create data visualizations and animated graphics that crisply highlight the impact of our work. 
• Improve our content collection practices, setting and maintain standards of story collection quantity and quality from field teams.
• Collaborate with country directors, partnerships directors, and donor relations team, building buy-in and serving their cross-functional priorities. 

Content Innovation

• Drive innovation in unique styles and techniques of documenting our work, including new mediums, technologies, and editorial styles.
• Identify, cultivate, and manage a roster of local filmmakers and creators to contract with us on special projects.

What you’ll bring:

• Alignment with GiveDirectly Values and active demonstration of our core competencies: emotional intelligence, problem solving, project management, follow-through, and fostering inclusivity. We welcome and strongly encourage applications from candidates who have personal or professional experience in the low-income and/or historically marginalized communities that we serve.

Qualifications: 

• 3+ years of experience in a fast-paced content-driven role in communications, consulting, media, or systems management with proven skills in project management. 
• Exceptional relationship building: you’re excited to work with GiveDirectly leaders in many countries to build consensus and buy-in for the importance of this work. 
• Strong communications skills and editorial sensibility (speaking, writing, presenting, risk assessment, and negotiating with multiple stakeholders)
• Excellent attention to detail regarding text (spelling, grammar, translation), visuals, facts and figures, and video
• Position is mostly remote but involves travel within the country appox. once a month and out of country once a quarter. Must be willing to locate in Uganda, Rwanda, Malawi, or Kenya

Nice to haves:

(not requirements, but mention if this is you)

• Canva or Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator/Premiere experience
• Data visualization tools (Canva, Tableau, etc)
• Experience with multiple camera technologies
• Past work traveling often to remote locations, working in the field
• Database management experience 
• SalesForce and Hubspot experience
• Professional storytelling / creative writing experience 
• Fluency in French or primary languages where GD works (Arabic, Swahili, Kinyarwanda, Chichewa, etc.)