COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATE

Village Capital is looking for a Communications Associate to join Village Capital's Communications team to ensure the completion of communications deliverables for Village Capital accelerator programs in Latin America and the United States. The Associate will also support broader creative, storytelling, branding, and thought leadership projects in these regions, focusing on the following thematic areas: Climate Innovation & Adaptation, Economic Mobility, and Equitable Access to Essential Services.

Here's what we're looking for:

• You are a self-starter: You are a proactive person looking for ways to improve existing processes in the most efficient way without sacrificing attention to detail.
• You are an insatiable learner: You stay ahead of industry trends. You find yourself reading, thinking, and talking about entrepreneurship, impact investing, branding, accessibility best practices, and ethical storytelling.
• You are a natural connector: You will spend a lot of your time talking with journalists, PR agencies, designers, creatives, entrepreneurs, and team members across the world. You love building systems for better and more efficient collaboration across teams.
• You're a great storyteller: You are passionate about connecting the dots and linking stories with potential opportunities for entrepreneurs, our program partners, and other ecosystem members.
• You have a flair for the creative: You have a gift for the pithy and memorable. You are able to create eye-catching designs and interesting social media posts that spark interest and attract new followers.
• You're a team player: You are able to communicate transparently and assertively with colleagues and external stakeholders. You think beyond current tasks and responsibilities to maximize the mission's impact.
• You have a global mindset: You love learning more about, interacting, and communicating effectively with people from different cultures, backgrounds, and languages. You are excited to be part of a team that is multicultural and internationally distributed.

Responsibilities

Reporting to the Global Communications & Branding Lead, the Communications Associate will be a key player of the Communications team and will have the following tasks and responsibilities:

• Work with the Latin America and the United States program teams to implement strategic communications plans and coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to create day-to-day collateral at key moments of each program, including webpages, press releases, social media content, and video scripts.
• Coordinate with Village Capital independent contractors, including graphic designers, web developers, videographers, and copywriters, to execute on communications deliverables.
• Research and support development of communications including but not limited to thought-leadership pieces that promote Village Capital's track record of supporting entrepreneurs through its programs; ecosystem and global initiatives; its regional presence and impact, and all other collateral to support fundraising efforts.
• Maintain VilCap's global library of stories of startups from each program, focusing on their innovations, progress in the program, and unique story.
• Coordinate speaking opportunities and draft pitch materials and talking points.
• Support the team in ensuring branding compliance across materials and expand Village Capital's presence in Latin America and the United States.
• Continuously track news around our core thematic areas and journalists covering these topics to be shared with the Global Communications & Branding Lead in order to secure high-level earned media hits and support with regular outreach to journalists.
• Support tracking of global communications metrics, including media hits, mentions, and other relevant results to demonstrate our reach and impact.
• Act as a first point of contact for our internal (Village Capital) team and support the process of addressing team requests in a timely manner.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Communications, Marketing, or other relevant field.
• Fluency in business English and Spanish.
• 1 to 3 years of applicable communications or equivalent work experience.
• Experience and interest in writing for a variety of purposes, including online news pieces, press releases, longer-form debate-shaping pieces, short-form tweets, social media and web copy, blog posts, etc.
• Strong and empathetic oral communication, relationship building, and networking skills.
• Exceptional analytical skills, ability to learn a topic quickly and synthesize its main points in a compelling way.
• Outstanding writing skills; Strong command of tone, logic, and argument structure.
• Creative thinker with a keen eye for metaphor and symbol; ability to communicate ideas in a unique and compelling way.

Note: While our budget for this role is between $515,000 - $600,000 MXN annually, the remuneration will be commensurate with experience.