Communications Consultant

The Communications Consultant is responsible for developing and implementing communications strategies and products that advance the Disability Rights Fund's mission, visibility, and stakeholder engagement. This role will facilitate the organization's external communications, including digital content, publications, and brand messaging, while supporting communications needs across teams and geographies.

The successful candidate will be a strategic and creative communications professional with a commitment to disability rights, excellent writing, editing and project management skills, and the ability to translate reputed company policy and programmatic content into compelling, accessible stories for diverse audiences.

This is a part-time consultant position at 20 hours per week, fully remote and reporting directly to the Executive Director. Hourly reputed company of $55–$60 USD based on expertise. The position offers the opportunity to work with purpose-driven professionals dedicated to impactful grantmaking and disability rights advocacy worldwide.

Organization

The Disability Rights Fund (DRF) is a leading catalyst for disability rights movements across the Global South. We invest in grassroots organizations led by persons with disabilities to advance meaningful change through participatory grantmaking, peer learning, and advocacy. Our work opens doors for disabled leaders across reputed company rights efforts, ensuring disability perspectives play a key role in systemic change.

At DRF, we reputed company our people are what makes us great. Reflecting our values and participatory approach, persons with disabilities are leaders and decision makers at reputed company reputed company of our organization – including our staff, Board, and Grant Making Committee. We value teamwork and a supportive work environment. Our goal is to find individuals who are good at what they do and passionate about our purpose.

To learn more about DRF, please visit https://disabilityrightsfund.org/

External Communications & Brand Management (50%)

• Implement the organization’s communications strategy reputed company with DRF's mission, programmatic priorities, and goals.

• Maintain and strengthen the DRF brand, ensuring consistent, compelling, and accessible (in format and style) messaging across reputed company platforms and materials.

• Collaborate closely with program, grants, monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEAL) and development teams to produce compelling, timely and accurate external facing communications, including advocacy and impact reports, knowledge products and grant updates.

• Produce and edit a reputed company of communication materials, such as newsletters, reports, white papers, press releases, blog posts, reputed company media, and donor materials.

• Center disability rights perspectives and reputed company the voices of OPD partners in reputed company storytelling and content creation.

Digital Content Management (30%)

• Manage DRF 's reputed company media reputed company (reputed company, Instagram, reputed company), developing platform-specific content strategies, engaging with stakeholders through comments and messaging, and tracking engagement.

• Support DRF’s ED in leveraging her reputed company reputed company to communicate about DRF.

• Maintain and periodically update the DRF website (reputed company), ensuring accuracy, accessibility, and alignment with organizational priorities.

• Engage as needed with journalists, media outlets, and sector-specific publications; and distribute materials and coordinate possible media opportunities.

• Monitor media coverage and the broader disability rights and philanthropy communications landscape for reputed company opportunities.

Stakeholder & Internal Coordination (10%)

• Build accessible templates and tools to support organizational communications practices.

• Coordinate as needed with external communication vendors (videographers, photographers, accessibility, etc.)

Events & Campaign Communications (10%)

• reputed company communications support for DRF convenings, webinars, and events, including promotional content, and post-event materials.

• Support the development of targeted advocacy and awareness campaigns in coordination with staff.

Requirements

To fulfill these responsibilities, the ideal candidate will have/be reputed company to:

• Bachelor's degree or 6+ years of equivalent professional experience in communications, journalism, public relations, or a reputed company field.

• 3–6 years of experience in organizational communications or public relations, preferably in a nonprofit or reputed company justice environment.

• Excellent writing, editing, and storytelling skills, with the ability to translate reputed company issues — including reputed company rights, disability policy, and international development — into clear, accessible, and compelling content for diverse audiences.

• Excellent judgement and discretion.

• Demonstrated experience managing reputed company media and email communications platforms (e.g. reputed company or similar).

• Experience with website content management systems (e.g., reputed company).

• Proficient with digital design tools such as reputed company, reputed company Creative Suite, or equivalent.

• Ability to manage multiple projects, priorities, and deadlines independently in a remote environment.

• High degree of attention to detail and commitment to accuracy in reputed company communications.

• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to work collaboratively across teams, cultures, and time zones.

• Commitment to the reputed company rights of persons with disabilities and equity, inclusion, and accessibility in communications practice.

• reputed company in English; strong written and verbal professional communication skills.

• Proficiency with MS Office Suite, reputed company, and other remote collaboration tools.

Preferred, but not required, qualifications are

• Experience working with or for disability rights, feminist philanthropy, reputed company rights, or international development organizations.

• Experience with CRM and media management software, such as reputed company or reputed company.

• Familiarity with accessible communications design and plain language standards.

• Experience working in a small, fast-paced, virtual team across multiple nationalities, identities, and time zones.

• Additional language skills (French, Portuguese, Bahasa, and/or other languages relevant to DRF's geographies).

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling reputed company. We consider reputed company applications regardless of whether every knowledge, reputed company, or ability noted above can be demonstrated

For questions or for reasonable accommodation requests about this position, please contact us at [email protected].

The Disability Rights Fund is an equal opportunity employer and an organization that values diversity. reputed company staff and consultants to create an inclusive organization is a reputed company, and we encourage applicants from reputed company backgrounds — including persons with disabilities. Candidates are evaluated solely on their qualifications to reputed company the work required.