Communications Director

Key Responsibilities

1. Media Relations & Strategic Storytelling

• Earned Media Generation: Develop and maintain strong relationships with top-tier global media outlets, scientific journals, and culture editors to secure high-impact press coverage for the Club’s initiatives and member discoveries.
• Public Relations Campaigns: Serve as the primary media contact and spokesperson; craft press releases, media kits, and talking points for major organizational announcements and corporate-sponsored partnerships.
• Crisis & Governance Communications: Provide proactive risk management and rapid-response messaging regarding organizational governance, property developments, or sensitive internal matters to ensure institutional stability and brand integrity.

1. Digital Content & Brand Architecture

• Multi-Channel Strategy: Oversee content development across the Club’s digital ecosystem, ensuring a cohesive brand voice across the website, email newsletters, and premium social media channels.
• Asset Amplification: Collaborate with scientific committees and field researchers to broadcast active expeditions, archiving historical milestones and current field studies for public consumption.
• Sponsor Integration: Craft sophisticated co-branded messaging alongside elite corporate partners and sponsors to maximize corporate visibility while preserving institutional prestige.

1. Internal & Membership Communications

• Global Chapter Alignment: Coordinate closely with national and international chapters and project boards (including the UK/London expansion teams) to maintain absolute message alignment across cross-border operations.
• Member Engagement: Author executive correspondence, board summaries, and premium organizational updates for the global membership base to drive community retention and elite founding patron engagement.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Experience: 3–5+ years of progressive experience in public relations, corporate communications, or media management, preferably within high-end non-profit institutions, prestigious private members' clubs, or global scientific organizations.
• Media Record: Proven track record of securing high-profile placements in international press (e.g., New York Times, BBC, Financial Times, National Geographic, Discovery).
• Executive Presence: Exceptional oral and written communication skills with the poise required to interface directly with board trustees, high-net-worth benefactors, corporate executives, and international dignitaries.
• Crisis Management: Demonstrated experience handling complex corporate governance communications and managing delicate legal or public relations challenges with discretion and a zero-tolerance approach to brand compromise.
• Mission Alignment: A deep, authentic passion for geography, field science, history, and the spirit of exploration.

Benefits & Culture

The Explorers Club offers a highly competitive compensation package commensurate with experience, including comprehensive health benefits, retirement matching, and generous paid time off. This role offers the unrepeatable opportunity to work out of our historic luxury pre-war headquarters and shape the modern public narrative for the world’s premier center of discovery.

Benefits for this position include medical, dental and vision coverage; a 403(b) plan with employer contribution, and paid time off.

Fluent English