Deputy Director, Campaign Planning & Channels Management

The Foundation We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve.

We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and opportunities to engage in several employee communities.

• comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums
• generous paid time off
• paid family leave
• foundation-paid retirement contribution
• regional holidays
• opportunities to engage in several employee communities

As a workplace, we’re committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.

The Communications Division, led by the Chief Communications Officer, oversees the foundation’s global communications strategy. The division brings together internal and external communications to advance the foundation’s mission to create a more equitable world.

This role sits within the Global Content & Campaigns team, which leads the foundation's public engagement strategy by bringing together brand, campaigns, creative production, storytelling, channels, and audience engagement to build trust in the foundation and inspire more people to care about our mission.

Working closely with regional communications teams and partners around the world, the team ensures the foundation's communications are audience-centered, creatively ambitious, and grounded in evidence, continually testing and evolving approaches that strengthen public trust and engagement.

The Deputy Director, Campaign Planning & Channels Management is a key member of the Communications leadership team and will work with colleagues across the foundation's nine global offices to develop integrated campaign strategies and implement digital channel strategies that drive the communications division’s key goals.

Reporting directly to the Director of Content and Campaigns, you will be responsible for leading campaign planning, digital channel strategy, audience engagement, and managing a team of campaign strategists and channel management experts.

Key channels under your purview will include Gates Foundation.org, The Optimist newsletter, brand and leadership social media channels, creators, and paid media.

Success in this role looks like empowering a talented team so they can deliver their best work; fostering new approaches that can make impact against our goals; managing productive relationships across a highly matrixed and geographically dispersed organization; and helping more priority audiences trust the foundation and care about the issues we tackle.

Design and lead campaign strategies that support the foundation’s brand and key initiatives, working closely with regional offices, advocacy and program colleagues and external partners to amplify impact and drive outcomes.

Direct campaign strategists in the implementation of campaigns across offline and digital platforms, including proactive strategies to enhance the foundation's news relevance and manage risks to reputation.

Partner with the Global Brand Experience team to develop creative briefs and content strategies that reflect audience insights, channel best practices, and historical performance data.

Partner with the Analytics and Insights team as well as vendors to ensure rigor and accuracy in measurement, insights, and reporting.