Deputy Director, Digital Communications, Cyber Statecraft Initiative

Overview

The Digital Forensic Research Lab’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative seeks a creative, collaborative, and entrepreneurial Deputy Director, Digital Communications to manage and support the center’s web development and graphics creation to enhance existing programming, content development, and thought leadership. The Deputy Director will be responsible for developing a graphics and digital collateral strategy that complements the center’s existing communications strategy. This will also include developing graphics and data visualization for future content and events focused on the Center’s bodies of work. The candidate will also support digital development for Cyber Statecraft and DFRLab programming and analytical content. The candidate will have established skills in graphic design, data visualization, and content development for a technology and policy-focused audience.

This position is based in our Washington, DC headquarters on a hybrid schedule. Pay is commensurate with experience, education, and organizational equity, with offers starting at $93,000.

Job Responsibilities

Digital Content Strategy

• Develop and implement strategy for visuals and graphic production of CSI publications, events, and other engagement products;
• Work closely with staff to conceive, mock up, design, and iterate on visual communications products;
• Manage budget for, and monitor, any external graphics and visual communications contractors;
• Lead a collaborative process to develop CSI and DFRLab digital channels and graphic products and identify a process to maintain those standards;
• Socialize digital content creation into the pitching and publication process and build internal capacity for the visual communication of research findings and policy recommendations;

Digital Content Creation and Curation

• Graphics and digital collateral
  • Collaboratively ideate, design, and edit digital assets to disseminate CSI and DFRLab research findings, policy recommendations, and capacity-building products;
  • Collaboratively ideate, design, and edit digital assets to promote CSI and DFRLab programming and engagements;
  • As needed/on a limited basis, revise and optimize digital design elements for print.
• Create and edit daily graphics for major social media platforms (e.g., LinkedIn, Instagram) to drive audience engagement, in particular through the use of infographics and other forms of data visualization;

Website Design and Management

• Lead front-end management of CSI and DFRLab editorial content (WordPress), including ongoing publication and maintenance of content/graphics, secondary to core visual graphics design and production responsibilities;
• Populate existing blocks, templates, and other common design elements to harmonize and streamline report publication and webpage build-out.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years’ relevant work experience in digital content creation, social media management, digital strategy, or related roles;
• Must demonstrate proven interest in the overlap between international relations, human rights, journalism, technology trends, social media, and the digital engagement space;
• Superlative digital design skills are required, with technical proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite strongly preferred;
• Proven ability to grow and engage online audiences, particularly through tailored, channel-specific content;
• Experience with social media management tools is preferred
• Demonstrated facility with translating complex policy issues, research findings, etc. into accessible and intelligible visualizations;
• Basic knowledge of web layout and design, HTML, and content management systems is required, with WordPress technical proficiency strongly preferred;
• Video editing experience is highly desired, particularly in Adobe Premiere;
• Must be detail-oriented self-starter and have the ability to work in a fluid environment;
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills are essential; experience working in hybrid team environments and across hierarchies with colleagues and counterparts in the United States and abroad will be an asset;
• International experience and foreign language skills are highly desired.

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