Global Director of Communications & Public Influence

Our Common Home; Brussel Hoofdstad; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Pension contributions

Job summary

Our Common Home seeks a Global Director of Strategic Communications to build and lead a central public‑influence capability, enabling country teams to broaden credible voices and localised storytelling. You will define the standards, coach partners, and establish shared systems for rapid, responsible media engagement across regions.

The role focuses on elevating credible voices globally, aligning strategy with local contexts, and shaping infrastructure to travel across the network, with hands‑on

Qualifications

• Senior strategic communications judgement across media, politics and audiences.
• Hands-on media placement, spokesperson development and rapid storytelling.
• Builder instinct to create infrastructure from scratch within a network.
• Coaching orientation to develop others' capability rather than doing it all.
• Strong understanding of centre-right and conservative landscapes.
• Ability to orchestrate across many country contexts.
• Interest in AI’s impact on media, information and trust.
• Calm, authoritative leadership with constructive challenge.

Responsibilities

• Build OCH's central strategic communications and public-influence capability.
• Define good media engagement across the network with standards and tools.
• Work directly with country teams early on, then coach them to own work.
• Develop a network-wide spokesperson methodology.
• Build rapid-response capability for credible voices in breaking stories.
• Create shared infrastructure for narrative testing and media monitoring.
• Position voices, stories and data for an AI-shaped media environment.
• Help country teams map outlets, validators, think tanks and platforms.
• Lead on crisis-response protocols.
• Manage a budget focused on capacity-building.
• Plan milestones for handover from central support.

Skills

Strategic communications

Media placement

Builder instinct

Coaching

Political fluency

Network orchestration

AI in media

Leadership

English proficiency

Job description

Our Common Home seeks a Global Director of Strategic Communications to build and lead a central public‑influence capability, enabling country teams to broaden credible voices and localised storytelling. You will define the standards, coach partners, and establish shared systems for rapid, responsible media engagement across regions.

The role focuses on elevating credible voices globally, aligning strategy with local contexts, and shaping infrastructure to travel across the network, with hands‑on