Deputy Director, Content, Campaigns and Digital - Africa at Gates Foundation

What You’ll Do

• Manage and mentor a high-performing team, fostering collaboration, learning, and professional growth and ensuring all staff members are operating with aligned priorities, clear expectations, and regular performance feedback.
• Lead Africa-wide storytelling and campaigns that showcase impact, innovation, and partnership across the continent, ensuring cultural authenticity and local relevance.
• Oversee regional content, digital, and campaign functions, setting strategic direction and maintaining high standards for creativity, accuracy, and inclusivity.
• Strengthen regional brand and media presence by building relationships with journalists, creators, and partners to amplify African voices and achievements.
• Drive innovation and data-informed engagement, using analytics and audience insights to guide strategy, test new approaches, and improve performance.
• Collaborate across the foundation to ensure consistent, integrated messaging that aligns with both regional priorities and global communications goals.
• Advise senior leaders and spokespeople on communications strategy, narrative positioning, and regional engagement opportunities.

Your Experience

• Advanced degree in a relevant discipline (e.g. communications, marketing, journalism, economics).
• Minimum 12–15 years of senior-level experience in strategic communications, marketing, brand, and digital strategy - ideally spanning multiple African contexts.
• Deep understanding of African media landscapes and campaign ecosystems, narrative development, brand-building, and audience engagement, ideally with a focus on African political economy and development dynamics.
• A track record of operating in global, multinational environments and ability to navigate complex matrixed organizations, aligning and uniting stakeholders across divisions, functions, and regions.
• Demonstrated success leading integrated, multi-platform campaigns that achieve measurable impact.
• Deep understanding of media and audience metrics and ability to apply data to build and adjust a communications strategy or campaign.
• Exceptional storytelling, content production, editing and writing skills.
• Demonstrated success leading brand strategy development, delivery and alignment.
• Strong reputation management and brand-building experience.
• Demonstrated success building and managing diverse and high performing teams across regions, time zones and cultures.
• Excellent leadership, strategic vision, and delivery execution skills.
• Experience of representing an organization at high-level forums and public platforms. Ability to build trust and cultivate strong relationships across diverse geographies and cultural contexts with high-profile partners, champions, and senior stakeholders.
• Skilled at fostering organizational alignment, facilitating joint decision-making, and ensuring shared ownership of strategies.
• Superior written and verbal communication in English; French is highly desirable.