Mayors Migration Council

Communications

• Develop and implement the MMC’s global communications and public affairs strategy, aligned with organizational priorities and geopolitical context.
• Lead narrative development, campaign design, and media engagement to position mayors as credible, pragmatic leaders on migration and displacement.
• Serve as a senior advisor to mayors and MMC leadership, providing strategic messaging guidance, political risk assessments, and preparation for high-profile engagements, including speeches, talking points, op-eds, briefing notes, and media training.
• Lead proactive and reactive media strategies, including press outreach, pitching, journalist relationship management, and coordination of press moments and events.
• Oversee MMC’s brand, voice, and messaging architecture, ensuring consistency, quality, and credibility across platforms and products.
• Lead crisis and reputational communications in close coordination with the Executive Director and Board, including rapid response and emergency communications as needed.
• Oversee the MMC’s digital presence, including website, newsletters, social media, and multimedia content, ensuring regular, high-quality output.
• Monitor communications performance and use insights to continuously refine strategy, tactics, and resource allocation.
• Provide strategic oversight of the MMC’s knowledge, research, and impact agenda, ensuring alignment with communications, advocacy, and fundraising priorities.
• Guide the production of flagship knowledge products, including reports, thematic briefs, impact stories, board materials, and donor-facing content.
• Ensure the MMC’s Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) framework is implemented effectively and translated into accessible, compelling narratives.
• Oversee coordination with external research partners and evaluators, ensuring findings are timely, credible, and strategically used.
• Translate evidence and data into persuasive storytelling that supports MMC’s influence.
• Lead, mentor, and support a small team, setting clear priorities, providing strategic direction, and maintaining high standards of quality and delivery.
• Manage external consultants and vendors across PR, research, design, and multimedia production.
• Oversee the communications and knowledge budget, ensuring resources are deployed effectively and efficiently.
• Work closely with MMC program leads, city partners, and institutional funders to ensure communications support organizational goals and partnerships.

Director, Communications, Knowledge & Impact