Use your strategic communications expertise, your ability to persuade and win coverage, and your can-do attitude to drive Asia's clean energy transition and help us achieve the greatest possible impact.
Ember is hiring an Asia Communications Manager to elevate our strategic communications work across the region, and particularly in South Asia as our organisation continues to expand internationally. We’re looking for someone with exceptional strategic communications skills, a keen eye for detail and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
Ember has built a strong reputation for producing clear, compelling and data-driven content that has shaped the narrative around clean electricity transition, empowered key stakeholders and influenced both direct and indirect policy changes. In this role, your work will make a tangible impact in advancing the shift towards a clean electricity system within a fast-growing and innovative organisation.
You will work closely with and contribute to Ember’s communications team and analysts across all workstreams in Asia to help them create compelling, data-driven content and communications materials for audience groups in our target Asian countries, as we grow our team in the region and around the world.
This position reports to the Head of Global Strategic Communications and will line manage the Asia strategic communications team.
Responsibilities:
- Lead Ember’s communications strategy in Asia, overseeing the implementation of activities to influence decisionmakers with compelling messages through the channels they trust
- Line manage the Asia strategic communications team, ensuring a happy and effective team
- Monitor the media landscape, develop relationships with journalists and secure proactive and reactive top tier media coverage in target Asia-Pacific regions
- Work with Ember’s Asia analysts to develop strategic priorities and core narratives for the region and reinforce these through all outputs
- Work with Ember’s analysts in Asia to improve the quality and clarity of their publications and create and deliver a strategic comms plan for each launch
- Coordinate audience and stakeholder mapping and outreach
- Maintain regional communications calendar and identify opportunities for engagement
- Maintain relationships with key organisations and networks within the region
- Identify and deliver paid-for opportunities, including ads in top tier media and digital advertising
- Engage with the digital communications team to define the strategic goals for Asia and review content for our digital platforms, including social media, website and data visualisation
- Ensure that all final Ember outputs are clear, visually engaging, proofread and in line with the organisation’s voice and style guidelines
- Regularly collect key metrics to evaluate Ember’s reach and impact
Location: Fully remote (Asia time zones)
Requirements
Essential
- At least 5 years experience in a strategic communications capacity
- Experience managing a team
- Experience of media and policy landscape in Asia-Pacific
- Confidence in understanding and producing data-led and technical content, supporting experts to communicate impactfully
- A passion for tackling climate change and addressing energy transition challenges in Asia
- Proactive and independent approach
- Good organisational skills and ability to balance multiple tasks independently
- Experience working internationally, in a global organisation or with intercultural teams
Nice to have
- Established media contacts in the sector in our target South Asian countries
- Asian language skills
- Business or financial background/experience
- Media/PR background, including experience running a press office function, and/or experience working for a think tank
- Experience using tools like WordPress, CiviCRM and Meltwater
- Fascination with data and data visualisation, to complement Ember’s strong Data and Dataviz teams
We are an equal opportunities employer committed to diversity and treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of background.
Benefits
Salary: £40,365 - £48,438 with potential progression to £52,313.
Contract: Full time (but only working 9 days every fortnight with no reduction in pay), permanent subject to a 3 month probationary period. For employees based outside of the UK, a local payroll contract is available, dependent on the country.
Remote culture and diverse team: Ember is a remote-first organisation, with talents of diverse backgrounds from 15+ countries over the world.
Further benefits: We offer a competitive benefits package, including:
- We operate a nine-day fortnight meaning our full-time staff are given every other Friday off work with no reduction in pay
- A minimum of 25 days holiday, plus public holidays and Christmas week-off
- For each year that you're part of the team at Ember you'll receive an additional day of holiday, up to a maximum of 5 additional days.
- Generous paid maternity and paternity leave
- Flexible working conditions, including the opportunity for part-time work and home working.
- Access to a local working space can be arranged
- In-person meet-ups (on average 2 meet-ups per year)
- Allowance for home office equipments
- Free annual eye tests
- Access to a counselling service
- Funding and allocated time for your training and development
- Paid volunteer day
- Four paid days off to enable low carbon travel
- Time off to donate blood
About Ember
Ember is an independent, not-for-profit energy think tank that aims to accelerate the clean energy transition with data and policy. We gather, curate and analyse data on the power sector and coal mine methane emissions, and use our findings to improve energy and climate policy.
See our work at https://ember-energy.org/ and https://x.com/ember_energy
