Senior Communications Officer, Editorial & Production

GiveWell

4d • Remote

About The Position

GiveWell is seeking a Senior Communications Officer, Editorial & Production to lead the editorial quality and production of its communications. This role involves setting editorial standards, building the necessary people and systems for consistent, high-quality content production at scale, and personally contributing to complex content. The position reports to the Vice President of Communications and will lead a growing team. This is a new leadership role created to support GiveWell's expanding research and impact, with the goal of directing substantially more funding to impactful opportunities. The successful candidate will be responsible for the end-to-end ownership of this emerging function, strengthening standards, hiring and developing staff, building systems, and handling critical content. This is an opportunity to build a function at a pivotal time for GiveWell. While the role is at the Senior Communications Officer level, exceptional candidates may be considered for a Communications Director position with increased responsibilities and compensation. The role requires both senior editorial judgment and strong operational leadership to ensure communications are clear, accurate, useful, carefully reasoned, and delivered on time. This includes managing workflows, editorial standards, review processes, and production systems, as well as leading planning, prioritization, and resource allocation for the owned-content portfolio. The role also involves upholding GiveWell's voice, developing recurring communications products, creating/editing high-priority content, overseeing website content operations, partnering with internal teams, and managing design/visual/multimedia asset production. The initial team will consist of one or two members, with the expectation that the function's team and capabilities will grow over time.

Requirements

• Skilled at using communications to help people understand complex ideas, build trust, and take action.
• Comfortable being accountable for outcomes, making consequential decisions with limited oversight, and knowing which decisions genuinely require escalation.
• Energized by intellectually demanding work and the challenges of creating engaging communications within a careful and precise style.
• Ability to engage deeply with GiveWell’s research and comfortable understanding and communicating about data in detail.
• Long track record of getting up to speed quickly on complex subject matter and carefully communicating to a very high standard.
• Ability to build a compelling narrative that is entirely factual, representing what is known and unknown without overstating or hedging into vagueness.
• Significant experience leading communications in complex, high-stakes environments.
• 10+ years of experience leading editorial and content-production work, setting and maintaining editorial standards, managing writers and editors, and building systems that produce consistently high-quality work.
• Deep experience owning editorial and content-production work end to end, not just contributing to it.
• Remained a hands-on leader who enjoys the work itself, as well as the strategy and systems behind it.
• Precise editor of complex or technical content: read text literally and carefully, and notice when a claim isn’t supported by the evidence behind it.
• Ability to combine high standards for individual work with the operational judgment needed to prioritize, allocate resources, manage complex production, and increase capacity over time.
• Understand how content is developed through writing, editing, design, audio, graphics, websites, and other formats.
• Exceptional communications judgment, including the ability to understand audience, context, risk, timing, and the underlying substance of a message.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to quickly make complex ideas clear and compelling without sacrificing rigor or nuance.
• A track record of building and leading: created or substantially rebuilt a team or function—not only run ones you inherited—and have hired, developed, and managed people.
• Recent, hands-on excellence at your craft: can point to work from the past few years that you personally produced or substantially shaped.
• Experience producing communications that are direct and factual while being engaging and effective with their target audiences—work that succeeds through substance and clarity rather than embellishment.
• Intellectual curiosity and the ability to engage deeply with GiveWell’s research and ideas, even without prior experience in their giving areas.
• Experience advising executives or other senior decision-makers directly.
• Strong alignment with GiveWell’s mission and values, including truth-seeking, transparency, and a commitment to communicating accurately and thoughtfully.

Nice To Haves

• People who can develop a strong point of view and hold it with confidence, but remain genuinely open to challenge, new information, and better ideas.
• Self-starters who take ownership, are comfortable creating structure in an evolving environment, and can make thoughtful decisions without always having complete information.
• People who are proactive and anticipatory, who identify opportunities, risks, bottlenecks, and communications needs before they become obvious.
• Collaborative leaders who raise the quality of the work around them and build strong relationships across teams.
• People who coordinate well with peers, resolve dependencies and disagreements, and make shared work clearer rather than more complicated.

Responsibilities

• Own the editorial quality and production of GiveWell’s communications, ensuring that our work is clear, accurate, useful, carefully reasoned, and delivered on time.
• Serve as GiveWell’s senior editor for our communications content, with responsibility for returning or correcting work that does not meet our editorial bar.
• Build and manage the workflows, editorial standards, review processes, and production systems that allow GiveWell to create consistently excellent content at increasing scale.
• Lead planning, prioritization, and resource allocation for GiveWell’s owned-content portfolio, managing dependencies and moving complex projects from concept through publication.
• Uphold GiveWell’s voice and editorial standards across everything we publish, and help colleagues across the organization write within them.
• Own the development of GiveWell’s recurring communications and reporting products, turning established priorities and messaging into clear, accurate content.
• Personally create, edit, or substantially shape our most complex, sensitive, or high-priority content.
• Oversee GiveWell’s website content operations, including the people and processes responsible for routine updates and publishing, so that the site remains accurate, current, and consistent with our editorial standards.
• Serve as a senior editorial and production partner to teams across GiveWell, helping shape high-priority projects early, determine the right format and production approach, and establish clear roles, review paths, and timelines.
• Oversee the production of design, visual, and multimedia assets across GiveWell’s channels, and the internal team and external contractors who create them.
• Manage and develop one or two team members initially, and determine how the function’s team and capabilities should grow over time.

Benefits

• Fully funded health, dental, vision, and life insurance (100% of premiums covered within the US for you and any dependents)
• Four weeks of paid time off per year
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• Ergonomic home workstations or coworking space memberships
• 403(b) retirement plan
• Visa Sponsorship (if needed to work in the US, with up to 100% relocation expenses covered case-by-case)
• Flexible working, including flexible hours, working remotely, and working from the office

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed