Communications Manager

Organization Overview

The Elba Hope Foundation is a nonprofit organization. At our heart of lies a steadfast commitment to sustainable progress and better futures for Africans and the African Diaspora through the interconnected tools of agriculture, conservation, food security, education, youth advocacy, and social justice. Our mission is to drive transformative change by fostering innovation, empowering communities, and forming strategic partnerships that will have a lasting impact on these sectors, both today and for future generations.
Position Overview

The Communications Manager is responsible for managing the Foundation's communications and digital presence across multiple audiences, programmes, and campaigns. This role goes beyond social media execution by leading creative production, coordinating external creative partners, managing content workflows, and ensuring all communications are delivered on time, on brand, and aligned with organizational priorities. Working closely with leadership, programme teams, fundraising, and external vendors, the Communications Manager serves as the central point of coordination for communications projects from concept through publication.
Key Responsibilities

Communications Strategy & Campaign Management

- Develop and maintain a comprehensive communications calendar across organizational priorities and UK programmes.

- Coordinate integrated campaigns across social media, fundraising, events, partnerships, and programme initiatives.

- Ensure messaging remains consistent across all Foundation channels and audiences.

- Identify opportunities to amplify organizational milestones, partnerships, campaigns, and mission-driven moments.

Social Media Management

- Oversee content planning and publishing across Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, and other relevant platforms.

- Coordinate campaigns across multiple Foundation and programme social media handles.

- Write engaging captions, source visuals, and recruit and coordinate with graphic/video partners as needed.

- Manage scheduling and publishing using social media management platforms.

- Monitor engagement, respond to inquiries where appropriate, and identify opportunities to increase reach and engagement.

- Maintain brand voice and ensure quality and consistency across all content.

Creative Project Management

- Lead the planning, coordination, and execution of creative projects from briefing through final delivery.

- Manage relationships with graphic designers, videographers, photographers, editors, and other creative contractors.

- Develop creative briefs and ensure projects remain on schedule and within scope.

- Review creative deliverables and provide clear, actionable, and implementable feedback.

- Gather, consolidate, and prioritize feedback from internal stakeholders into a single, cohesive revision process.

- Maintain organized creative assets and oversee asset management across projects.

Organizational Communications & Website Management

- Lead the development and production of the Foundation's Annual Impact Report.

- Coordinate communications materials supporting fundraising campaigns, grant announcements, partnerships, events, programme launches, and organizational updates.

- Co-manage the Foundation's website with the Director of Operations, ensuring content remains current, accurate, and aligned with organizational priorities.

- Coordinate website updates for programmes, campaigns, impact stories, fundraising initiatives, events, and organizational news.

- Work with external web developers and designers to implement new pages, functionality, and improvements.

- Review and approve website content, imagery, and layouts before publication.

- Monitor website performance and user experience, identifying opportunities to improve engagement and accessibility.

- Support the creation of presentations, newsletters, digital reports, and other marketing and communications collateral as needed.

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