Own how Moonshot shows up in the world — social, community, newsletter, website, and press — for a nonprofit backing the young leaders closest to the world's hardest problems.
Our mission is to ensure that young innovators closest to the world's most pressing problems have a seat at the table and the opportunity to lead.
We find these ambitious young leaders, fund them, and back them through a two-year acceleration program built on a bespoke Embodied Leadership curriculum — grants, world-class mentorship, and a global community.
They're running schools in refugee settlements. Building solar cold storage for smallholder farmers. Printing prosthetics for people the health system forgot. Most are doing it with very little money and almost no network.
Moonshot alumni now advise heads of state, partner with Google DeepMind, and speak at the UN, SXSW, and the Aspen Institute. We're a small, international team with a strong culture of yes we can. The work is demanding — it's also expansive, creative, and a lot of fun.
You'll build one — and run the whole function as your own, with the team behind you.
We're looking for a Communications Lead to own how Moonshot shows up in the world through our main channels: social and community engagement, newsletter, website, and press. This is an ownership role. We want someone who will learn our mission and our community deeply enough to speak in our voice without checking first, bring ideas nobody prompted, and treat this function as their own.
To back you up, we work with independent videographers who cover our events and interviews, and graphic designers who shape our visual language and digital assets. You'll lead that work, brief it well, and hold it to a high standard. We give you the brand, the story, and the access. We're looking for the person who takes that to the next level.
Your job is to make sure the world hears it, understands it, and uplifts it — on a cycle that repeats every year.
Thousands of stories arrive from 160+ countries — the richest raw material you'll work with all year.
Prague Castle & Colours of Ostrava — more footage and relationship-building than the rest of the year combined.
Onboarding as applications wind down and the next cycle of storytelling begins.
Winners unveiled in New York, with events at the UN and One World Trade Center.
In between: global community calls, Impact Labs, partner moments, and a constant flow of updates from young leaders doing things worth telling the world about.
You run with a goal. Give you an outcome and you work out the steps — and tell us early when something's going sideways.
You're a storyteller first. You know how to build one story across many channels, and the difference between a post that performs and one that means something.
You write well and fast. You absorb a brand voice and write in it convincingly. AI elevates your voice — never a crutch.
You have a real eye for design. Comfortable in Figma and Canva — you build on brand guidelines without needing direction on every asset.
You've worked with international communities. Mission-driven, distributed, culturally varied audiences are familiar ground.
You generate. Campaign concepts and creative solutions come from you — not from a brief we write for you.
You're comfortable owning across channels — a content calendar, a website update, and a journalist pitch, all in the same week.
You want feedback. You ask direct questions when something's unclear, and take input without flinching.
You care about this. Youth leadership, social innovation, and the SDGs are where you want to spend your working hours.
Of a function at the moment it matters most, as we scale internationally.
Camp & Summit in Czech Republic, the Awards in New York — flights and stay included.
50+ senior mentors — Aspen Institute leaders, former government secretaries, Fortune 500 board members.
Prague Castle, the UN, One World Trade Center, and field footage from young leaders' home countries.
Small, close-knit, says yes, and makes sure you shine.
Not a three-page cover letter detailing your job history. Send a short note about why this role and this mission, a link to work you're proud of, and one of the following:
Three social posts, in whatever format you like, telling the story of a Moonshot young leader from our site or our magazine.
A short, honest read on our current Instagram — and what you'd change first.
We review applications on a rolling basis and will close the role when we find the right person.
erin@moonshotplatform.orgPlease include: why this role & mission · a link to work you're proud of · Option A or B above.