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Job Description

About Africa No Filter (ANF)

Africa No Filter was founded to challenge the narrow and repetitive narratives that continue to define Africa through the lenses of poverty, corruption, conflict, and poor governance. These limited portrayals overlook the continent’s progress, innovation, creativity, and agency, reinforcing harmful stereotypes that position Africa as broken and dependent.

Through strategic grant-making, advocacy, and community building, Africa No Filter works with storytellers, media, and institutions to reshape how Africa is seen – locally and globally – one story at a time.

The Role: Communications Lead

Africa No Filter is seeking a senior, entrepreneurial, and highly tech-literate Communications Lead to drive its digital, media, and narrative strategy. This is a hands-on leadership role for a communications professional with strong agency experience and a proven ability to design and deliver high-impact campaigns.

The Communications Lead will blend strategic insight with disciplined execution, ensuring ANF’s work is visible, well-positioned, and reaches priority audiences at critical moments. The role requires sharp media instincts, deep digital expertise, established press relationships across Africa, and a strong interest in how AI and emerging technologies can enhance communications workflows and impact.

A core focus of the role will be shaping and delivering flagship initiatives, including Opportunity Africa and the Narrative Index Project, alongside ANF’s broader advocacy and communications agenda.

About Opportunity Africa

Opportunity Africa is ANF’s flagship, multi-year continental campaign aimed at repositioning Africa as a hub of opportunity, innovation, and progress. The campaign moves beyond isolated storytelling to create a shared narrative framework that governments, businesses, creatives, media, and institutions can adopt and amplify.

Designed as a three-year initiative, Opportunity Africa integrates branding, storytelling, coalition building, and media activation to shift perceptions, attract investment and trade, and strengthen confidence—particularly among Africa’s youth and diaspora. Its ambition is long-term: embedding narrative change within institutions, systems, and everyday communication

Key Responsibilities

Communications, PR & Narrative Leadership

• Lead ANF’s overall communications and public relations strategy.
• Develop and place press releases, opinion pieces, and thought leadership in African and global media.
• Build, maintain, and leverage strong media relationships across the continent.
• Design and deliver campaigns that generate measurable visibility, engagement, and narrative impact.
• Negotiate and manage media partnerships aligned with ANF’s mission.

Digital Strategy & Execution

• Own and execute ANF’s digital strategy across web, social, and email platforms.
• Lead digital campaigns with clear goals, audiences, timelines, and performance metrics.
• Ensure digital activity is insight-driven, coordinated, and impact-focused.
• Apply AI and digital tools to improve content planning, efficiency, monitoring, and reporting.

Content, Social & Influencer Oversight

• Oversee content development to ensure consistency, quality, and narrative alignment.
• Guide social media strategy and performance in collaboration with execution teams.
• Manage influencer and creator engagement to ensure relevance and strategic value.

Leadership & Team Management

• Lead and develop a small communications and digital team.
• Set priorities, workflows, and clear deliverables while fostering collaboration.
• Work closely with programme teams to support campaigns, partnerships, and organisational goals.

Skills, Experience & Qualifications

Essential

• Minimum 10 years’ experience in communications, PR, or digital strategy, ideally within an agency setting.
• Demonstrated success delivering high-impact, measurable campaigns.
• Strong media relationships across Africa.
• Deep understanding of digital communications and its intersection with traditional media and advocacy.
• Proven leadership and team management experience.
• Excellent writing, editorial judgment, and verbal communication skills.
• Experience working across multiple African countries or regions.
• Familiarity with narrative change, advocacy, or mission-driven organisations.

Technology & AI

• High proficiency with digital platforms and tools.
• Curious and confident in applying AI to improve communications workflows and insights.
• Able to translate technology into practical, effective systems.

Personal Attributes

• Entrepreneurial, solutions-oriented, and fast-paced
• Strategic yet execution-focused
• Highly responsive and delivery-driven
• Strong emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills
• Comfortable operating under pressure and ambiguity
• Strong alignment with Africa No Filter’s mission and values

Application Details

Interested candidates should submit their applications to
executivedirector@africanofilter.org
with “Communications Lead” as the email subject line.

Application deadline: 1 February 2026
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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