About the Role
Role Purposes
Edit and share Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) knowledge, tools, approaches, and insights to:
- Improve the farmed animal movement’s understanding of the benefits and limitations of MEL.
- Contribute to suitable MEL practices in the animal movement.
- Provide MEL practitioners with easy access to best-practice, robust MEL tools.
- Raise TMM’s profile as an expert on best-practice MEL in the farmed animal movement.
- Support the Executive Director in report writing for planning and fundraising.
Why Does This Role Exist?
TMM regularly observes that MEL in the animal movement is not yet used properly, nor to its full potential of a combination of improving interventions, accountability, and demonstrating the (in)effectiveness of interventions. Instead, MEL is frequently used for trying to demonstrate impact too early in a program’s life cycle, or the wrong kind of accountability is applied by simply ticking boxes to keep funders satisfied.
TMM believes it’s important to more clearly and broadly communicate about the benefits, limitations, and importance of using suitable MEL, while making best-practice tools freely available. We also want to communicate better about our services, plans, successes, and learnings to funders and other stakeholders. To do so, the Executive Director needs assistance with general report writing and grant writing, and the creation of presentations.
The Communications Officer will play a vital role in improving TMM’s external communications.
Desired Outcomes of This Role
- Our MEL messages, templates, and other MEL resources reach the right people, after which many actively engage with the content.
- TMM delivers informative and engaging presentations at key gatherings.
- Reports and grant proposals are engaging, professional, and accurate.
Key Activities
- Building out our current communication strategy, suitable to reach the goals stated above, including key target audiences, key communication channels, a communication plan, and timeline. Our current communication channels are our website and LinkedIn, and several targeted forums and mailing lists from others.
- Supporting the MEL Advisors and Executive Director to create MEL content (blogs, updates, presentations), grant proposals, reports, and the annual plan. Tasks include:
- Together with the Program Lead and Director, creating a communication plan that lists concrete topics, specifies the writer, and a timeline.
- Informing designated writers of the topics and timeline.
- Supporting and facilitating the writers as much as possible.
- Informing the Program Lead if deadlines for write-ups are not met.
- Providing feedback on drafts.
- Data visualization through, e.g., the creation of infographics.
- Final editing of communication materials.
- Publishing all TMM communication pieces on the suitable channels, including embedding tools and templates on the TMM website, and potentially a TMM newsletter.
- Problem solving of communication channels.
- Data collection on reach and progress towards our outcomes.
The role does not require giving presentations or being the spokesperson for the organization.
Decision-Making Authority
- With input from the team, and within the framework approved by the Executive Director, you set the communication strategy.
- Final responsibility for the lay-out and phrasing of all communication materials.
- Deliverables are reviewed by the Executive Director and Team Lead.
Profile of the Communications Officer
- Ability to translate scientific “professional” language into regular, easy-to-understand language or other communication tools while maintaining the quality of the content.
- Accurate final editing of all content in USA English.
- Comfortable taking responsibility for communications output.
- Familiar with Effective Altruism principles.
- Familiar with the farmed animal movement.
- Good interpersonal skills, able to create buy-in and nudge.
- Data visualization skills and experience.
Nice to have:
- Experience with and interest in working and experimenting with frontier AI models (e.g. Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.).
- Experience with Squarespace and with HTML/JavaScript, or willingness to learn.
- Ability to use, e.g., Claude Code to create technically coding modules on the website, or strong interest in learning how to do this.
Some budget is available to hire additional support or upskill in certain areas if necessary.
Commitments & Norms
- Actively engage and collaborate with the other team members.
- Around 4 hours per day overlap with the UK (GMT) timezone mid-day.
- Some flexibility towards working times is expected in order to interact with team members in different countries.
- Use of TMM’s standard tools such as Slack, Airtable, and Notion.
Priority Setting
The following trade-offs guide the priorities of communication:
- Collaboration and support, even over speed.
- Critical reflection and learning, even over perfection.
- Benefit of the movement, even over benefit of TMM.
- Sustainable systems, even over short-term wins.
