Overview
This role is part of the Engagement Team, responsible for ensuring the Accelerator's political engagement facilitates its work, generates support, taps into networks, and deepens relationships. The Consultant will ensure the narrative and public voice communicate successes, progress, ethos, and systemic way of working through innovative storytelling.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and lead a coherent narrative approach for the Accelerator.
- Interpret complex ideas and translate them into clear, audience-appropriate narrative framing.
- Support the Director and senior leadership in shaping and drafting speeches, briefings, and narrative materials.
- Curate insights, examples, and stories to inform political and institutional positioning.
- Collaborate with technical teams to translate data and learning into narrative materials.
- Build trusted relationships to enable the sharing of authentic stories.
- Lead on event preparation and public engagement for the Accelerator.
- Develop communication, narrative, and branding materials for stakeholders.
- Facilitate storytelling workshops or interviews.
- Model systemic leadership mindsets and foster a collaborative culture.
- Strengthen coherence and alignment across teams.
- Capture and synthesize insights to evolve the narrative approach.
- Build institutional memory by consolidating stories and insights.
Required Experience
- At least 5 years’ experience in international development, strategic communications, journalism, community building, social impact storytelling, or policy advocacy.
- Experience working with government‑led processes is a plus.
- Demonstrated international experience collaborating with diverse partners (governments, International Financial Institutions, UN agencies, civil society, private sector, academia) across regions and organizational levels.
- Experience shaping the narrative of early‑stage or systems‑change initiatives.
- Proven ability to use strategic storytelling for partnership‑building.
Qualifications
• Advanced university degree in Communications, Journalism, Media Studies, Marketing, International Relations, Social Sciences, or another relevant field; or a first university degree with additional years of relevant professional experience and/or advanced training.
