The Igra Charity Foundation is looking for a Director of External Communications who can bring together disparate specialists – fundraisers, an editor, a creator, a producer – into one team with a shared purpose.
This role isn't about "managing everyone" but about ensuring fundraising, brand, and public positioning have a single heart, not three competing voices.
Candidate Expectations:
- Ability to keep several different processes in mind simultaneously and see how they influence each other without losing track of any.
- Capacity to resolve disputes like "let's move the deadline" versus "let's not release something raw" in a way that both sides consider fair, not forced.
- Comfortable with numbers: able to calmly calculate budgets, returns on investment, and efficiency – and ready to change things if the numbers suggest something different than habit.
- Ability to inspire: the team needs to feel the purpose behind it all, especially those who rarely see the children the foundation helps in person.
- Confidently conduct negotiations – with brands, partners, and foundation trustees – and speak the language of value, not requests.
Who we are looking for:
- Someone with experience managing a team of 5-6 people with diverse, non-overlapping specializations.
- With experience managing a budget and public reporting – to a board, donors, or investors.
- Preferably with experience in NGOs, but more importantly – a readiness to quickly learn the specifics of the sector: donors, reporting, reputational risks.
- With sufficient insight into brand communications to substantively evaluate a creative concept, not just approve it.
Responsibilities:
- Balance the three equal directions of the foundation – fundraising, brand, and public positioning – so that none take resources from the others.
Maintain the architecture of our major stories:
- Set the substantive framework for 4 major campaigns per year, ensuring the concept aligns precisely with strategy, not just a pretty idea.
- Lead the communication aspects of collaborations and special projects with brand partners.
Be a bridge to the program team:
- Build relationships with the heads of our programs (hand therapy, occupational therapy, legal protection) and obtain live expert material from them – case studies, data, positions.
- Transfer this material to the Head of Content to be transformed into understandable content for social media.
Manage the team:
- Set tasks and prioritize between fundraising, content, production, and creative.
- Resolve conflicts – deadlines versus quality, competition for designer resources – in a way that the decision is respected.
Be the keeper of the meaning:
- Remind the team of the purpose of their work – not abstractly, but through specific stories of children and families.
- Regularly provide honest feedback, including recognition for successes, not just analysis of what went wrong.
Monitor finances:
- Keep the department's payroll within a healthy range relative to the foundation's turnover.
- Separately calculate whether fundraising is self-sustaining, and how much our reputation costs as an investment, rather than an item with direct ROI.
What we offer:
- Official employment under the Labor Code of the Russian Federation, full-time employment.
- Salary from 200,000 ₽ net, negotiable based on experience.
- Remote work or flexible office attendance near Barrikadnaya metro station.
- Real freedom to build a department almost from scratch – not to maintain someone else's system, but to create your own.
- A team with very specific areas of responsibility – no need to spend months establishing basic order.
- Work whose effect is visible not in a beautiful report, but in the lives of society and specific children with motor impairments.
To apply, please submit your resume and a brief cover letter about yourself.
