Open to candidates across Africa.
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Open to candidates across Africa.
“This is a fully remote role open to candidates in sub-Saharan Africa.”
Team operates across Sub-Saharan Africa, requiring alignment within GMT+0 to GMT+4 time zones and up to 50% travel for field sprints.
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- Contractor / B2B
- No mention of hiring international contractors or invoicing.
- Global stipend
- No home office or equipment budget mentioned.
- Annual retreat
- No company-paid get-togethers mentioned.
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About the role
As the Knowledge and Communications Lead, you will drive the narrative for a flagship partnership testing youth programs across Africa. You will work closely with researchers, designers, and project leads to distill complex field experiments and partner meetings into concise leadership summaries, research decks, toolkits, and RFPs on quick turnarounds. You will also unify voice and content architecture across varied country workstreams, ensuring outputs remain clear, consistent, and strategically aligned.
What you'll do
- Attend partner calls and translate live discussions into briefs, reports, decks, and blogs with minimal re-briefing.
- Develop and maintain a unified narrative voice across diverse country teams and workstreams.
- Review, write, and structure technical assets including RFPs, experiment protocols, and playbooks.
- Synthesize lengthy internal research reports into concise summaries for executive and funder audiences.
- Collaborate with graphic designers and project leads to establish style guides, templates, and reusable content libraries.
What you bring
- Minimum 7 years of experience in strategic communications, editorial, knowledge translation, or technical writing.
- At least 3 years working in international development, philanthropy, or social impact.
- Demonstrated ability to distill complex research and program methodologies into clear content for senior audiences.
- Exceptional written English with a portfolio spanning technical documents, decks, briefs, and reports.
- Willingness to travel up to 50% for field sprints and stakeholder alignment across Africa.
About YLabs
Founded in 2016 at the Harvard Innovation Lab, YLabs is a global design and research organization dedicated to improving health and economic opportunity for youth aged 10–24 across Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Central America.
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