Communications Associate

JOB DESCRIPTIONS

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Media strategy: Execute the team’s media strategy through pitching stories about climate change, its impacts, climate policy, the energy transition and more to the media in Norway and Denmark. 
• Storytelling: Develop compelling narratives and storylines to proactively drive media coverage and public conversations around climate solutions and energy transition in the region.
• Capacity building: Identify and train new voices and partners across the region and support them in executing media strategies.
• International collaboration: Work with colleagues in GSCC and with partner organizations to develop media packs with strategically important events and developments from the Nordic region to the rest of the world.
• Content creation: Develop a wide range of content such as press releases, press briefings, social media posts, OpEds, and communication support during events.
• Event Planning and Coordination: Organise and provide on-site support for events such as press conferences, media briefings, partner workshops, ensuring seamless execution.
• Media monitoring: Monitor impact and outcomes and contribute to drawing conclusions and recommendations to improve our activities and strategies.
• Relations: Seek out key journalists, editors and influencers in the climate and sustainability sectors to build and maintain strong relationships with them. 
• Polling and surveys: Use polling and surveys to inform messaging and identify target groups effectively.
• Strategic insight: Follow the public debates in Norway and Denmark to identify where strategic communications can be usefully deployed in order to speed up the net-zero transition.

REQUIREMENTS

• Professional experience in communications, PR or journalism, ideally with a track record of handling media relations in Denmark and/or Norway.
• A demonstrated ability to analyze public, political, and media debates to identify opportunities for impactful strategic communications.
• A track record of setting and achieving measurable goals in communications or media outreach, including monitoring and reporting on outcomes
• An enthusiasm to embrace complex, technical topics and transform complicated substance into compelling narratives about the urgency and necessity of swift and ambitious climate action.
• A genuine interest in and passion for addressing climate change.
• The disposition to work generously with colleagues in a high-trust global community of peers.
• The versatile and adaptable skills necessary to flourish in a fast-paced and wide-ranging work environment and work across time zones using tools such as Zoom, Slack and email (Google Workspace).
• Fluency in written and spoken English, our working language as well as either Norwegian or Danish, a prerequisite for local media work.