Communications Officer (Media Relations)

About this role

We're hiring a Communications Officer focused on media relations to help shape how Coefficient Giving's work is understood by the public, policymakers, and potential partners. We're looking for a mission-driven candidate with strong news judgment, excellent writing, and an instinct for building trust with journalists. You'll serve as a spokesperson for the organization and own much of our day-to-day press work — pitching and placing stories, fielding inquiries, preparing staff for media opportunities, and helping us respond quickly and thoughtfully when our work is covered in the news — while maintaining our commitment to rigor and accuracy.

ABOUT COEFFICIENT GIVING

Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy https://coefficientgiving.org/research/open-philanthropy-is-now-coefficient-giving/) is a philanthropic funder and advisor. Since 2014, we’ve directed over $5 billion in grants as part of our mission to help others as much as we can with the resources available to us. It's also a pivotal moment for Coefficient Giving: we gave around $1 billion last year, and are on track to more than double our giving this year. We work with a range of donors who share our commitment https://coefficientgiving.org/our-approach/ to cost-effective, high-impact giving. Our current funds include Science and Global Health R&D https://coefficientgiving.org/funds/science-and-global-health-rd/, Navigating Transformative AI https://coefficientgiving.org/funds/navigating-transformative-ai/, Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness https://coefficientgiving.org/funds/biosecurity-pandemic-preparedness/, Abundance & Growth https://coefficientgiving.org/funds/abundance-and-growth/, Farm Animal Welfare https://coefficientgiving.org/funds/farm-animal-welfare/, and more https://coefficientgiving.org/funds/.

We’re proud of our track record:

- We jump-started the field of AI safety and security https://coefficientgiving.org/research/ai-program-update-navigating-transformative-ai/ and have played a vital role in addressing other existential threats, such as mirror bacteria https://www.mbdialogues.org/.

- Our grants to evidence-backed global health programs have saved over 100,000 lives, and our farm animal welfare grants have improved the lives of over 3 billion animals.

- We supported late-stage clinical trials for the R21 malaria vaccine, now being scaled to protect millions of kids globally https://www.nature.com/articles/d44148-025-00245-8#:~:text=Uganda%20is%20at%20the%20forefront,M%20vaccine%20to%20105%20districts..

- We were the earliest major funder of the YIMBY movement to build more housing. Our grantees have led the charge on major wins like City of Yes https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2024/12/mayor-adams-governor-hochul-speaker-adams-celebrates-passage-most-pro-housing-proposal-in in New York, and SB 79 https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/10/governor-newsom-builds-on-this-years-historic-housing-reforms-signs-legislation-to-accelerate-housing-and-affordability/ in California, which will enable hundreds of thousands of new housing units.

ABOUT THE ROLE

This role will focus primarily on media relations: how our work is covered, who covers it, and how well that coverage reflects what we actually do. You'll work to secure accurate, high-quality coverage across the breadth of our portfolio https://coefficientgiving.org/funds/ and to be a calm, credible point of contact for reporters. This role will report to Sharon Yang https://coefficientgiving.org/team/sharon-yang/, Senior Communications Officer, who is based in New York.

For a look at what being on our small but growing communications team is like, see Sharon’s entry https://coefficientgiving.org/research/day-in-the-life-sharon-yang-senior-communications-officer/ in our “Day in the Life” series.

Responsibilities may include:

- Serving as an on-the-record and on-background spokesperson. You'll speak with reporters on the record and on background on behalf of Coefficient Giving, representing us accurately and credibly across our portfolio.

- Pitching and placing stories. You'll develop story ideas and build relationships with journalists to secure accurate, high-quality coverage of our work across topics like AI safety, global health, scientific R&D, abundance and growth, and farm animal welfare.

- Building and maintaining journalist relationships. You'll cultivate and manage a network of reporters and editors across relevant beats, keep our media lists and relationship tracking up to date, and help ensure an appropriate cadence of contact with the people who cover us.

- Managing reactive press work. You'll often be a first point of contact for incoming media inquiries — triaging requests, drafting statements and talking points, and coordinating fast, well-judged responses on deadline. You’ll exercise sound judgement on when a story warrants a response and when it’s better left alone.

- Preparing spokespeople. You'll prepare staff, leadership, and (where relevant) grantees for interviews, producing briefing documents, Q&As, and talking points, running prep sessions and supporting media trainings, and giving candid feedback before and after interviews.

- Monitoring coverage and the landscape. You'll track how we and our grantees are covered, flag risks and opportunities early, and help craft quick, calibrated responses.

- Supporting reputational risk review. You'll bring a media lens to assessments of grants and communications for PR sensitivities, helping the team think through how decisions might be perceived externally.

- Collaborating with the broader communications team on cross-cutting projects (e.g. the newsletter, internal communications, social media) and helping maintain our standards and processes.

The exact scope of this role will evolve based on organizational needs and your strengths and interests. There's room to grow into more strategic ownership of our media work over time.

WHO MIGHT BE A GOOD FIT

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