- Position Title: Campaigns Lead – Opportunity Africa
- Number of Vacancies: 1
- Location: Remote (Africa preferred)
- Employment Type: Fixed-term Full-time Consultancy
- Application Deadline: 1 February 2025
- Category/Department: Campaigns, Communications, Advocacy, Narrative Change
- Salary Expectation: Estimated USD 5,500–8,500 gross per month equivalent (approximately KSh 750,000–1,150,000). This estimate is based on prevailing consultancy rates for senior-level campaign and communications leadership roles within pan-African NGOs, foundations, and narrative-change organisations, informed by comparable Africa-wide advocacy and branding campaign benchmarks. Actual remuneration is determined by the employer and contract terms; this is an independent approximation to guide expectations and negotiation – no legal implication intended.
Introduction
The Campaigns Lead – Opportunity Africa role is a rare senior leadership opportunity to shape and deliver one of the most ambitious narrative and branding campaigns on the African continent. This Campaigns Lead – Opportunity Africa position is designed for a strategic, execution-driven leader who understands how large-scale, multi-country campaigns are built, coordinated, and sustained over time.
Working remotely within Africa, the Campaigns Lead – Opportunity Africa will translate a bold continental vision into a cohesive, high-impact campaign that shifts mindsets, strengthens confidence, and repositions Africa globally and internally as a continent of opportunity, progress, and innovation. This role sits at the intersection of strategy, communications, partnerships, and emerging technologies, offering a powerful platform for long-term continental impact.
About Africa No Filter (ANF)
Africa No Filter exists to challenge and shift harmful stereotypes that continue to define Africa through narrow narratives of poverty, corruption, disease, and conflict. Through grant-making, community building, and advocacy, Africa No Filter supports storytellers to change the narrative about Africa one story at a time. The organisation works with leading global funders including the Ford Foundation, Bloomberg, Mellon Foundation, Luminate, Open Society Foundations, Comic Relief, the Hilton Foundation, and the Hewlett Foundation. Africa No Filter is committed to restoring agency, dignity, and confidence in how Africa is seen and how Africans see themselves.
About Opportunity Africa
Opportunity Africa is Africa No Filter’s flagship, bold, multi-year narrative and branding campaign designed to reposition Africa as a continent of opportunity, innovation, and progress. Built as a three-year continental campaign, Opportunity Africa creates a unifying narrative architecture that governments, businesses, media, creators, and institutions can adopt and amplify. The campaign integrates brand, storytelling, coalition building, and media activation to shift mindsets, attract investment and trade, and strengthen confidence, particularly among Africa’s youth and diaspora, while embedding narrative change into systems and institutions beyond individual funding cycles.
1. Campaigns Lead – Opportunity Africa (Remote – 1 Post)
Brief Overview:
The Campaigns Lead will drive the design, coordination, and delivery of the Opportunity Africa campaign, ensuring strategic coherence, operational excellence, and measurable narrative and visibility impact across Africa and globally.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive the design, coordination, and delivery of the Opportunity Africa campaign across multiple countries, platforms, and stakeholders.
- Manage complex timelines and multiple workstreams across the five core campaign pillars.
- Ensure alignment with the strategic intent and governance of the Campaign Fund (without fundraising responsibility).
- Track performance through clear KPIs, learning frameworks, and narrative impact metrics to continuously strengthen delivery.
- Lead and coordinate a Global Coalition of partners across governments, corporates, media, creatives, multilaterals, and civil society around a shared Opportunity Africa narrative.
- Lead the development and rollout of a strong, recognisable Opportunity Africa brand and messaging architecture.
- Oversee the creation of practical tools, assets, and toolkits that enable partners to implement and amplify the campaign consistently.
- Work with grants teams to identify and collaborate with storytellers, influencers, and cultural leaders to expand the Opportunity Africa campaign.
- Drive PR, earned media, thought leadership, and strategic communications to maximise reach, relevance, and impact.
- Translate Opportunity Africa’s vision into a cohesive, high-impact campaign that delivers measurable narrative, engagement, and visibility outcomes.
- Confidently explore, adopt, and integrate AI-driven tools and solutions to improve campaign planning, content creation, audience targeting, monitoring, and learning.
- Work with technical partners where required and use data and insights to inform strategy and decision-making.
Requirements for Appointment / Qualifications
Essential
- Proven track record and 10+ years’ experience leading or managing large-scale campaigns, movements, or multi-stakeholder initiatives.
- Strong background in communications, brand, advocacy, or narrative-driven campaigns.
- Proven experience working across multiple partners, geographies, and sectors.
- Excellent strategic thinking, project management, and coordination skills.
- Deep understanding of Africa’s corporate, brand, and marketing landscape.
- Ability to operate with confidence at senior stakeholder level.
Desirable
- Experience working with or alongside governments, multilaterals, or large institutions.
- Experience managing influencers, creators, or cultural leaders.
- Comfort working in fast-moving, entrepreneurial organisations.
Personal Attributes
- Strategic yet highly practical and delivery focused.
- Comfortable with complexity and ambiguity.
- Collaborative, confident, and credible with senior stakeholders.
- Strong sense of purpose and alignment with Africa No Filter’s mission.
- Calm under pressure and able to manage multiple priorities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Terms of Service
- Fixed-term full-time consultancy
Apply for Campaigns Lead – Opportunity Africa – Remote
How to Apply
Applications should be sent via email with a CV and relevant supporting information.
Apply via Email:
executivedirector@africanofilter.org
Use “Campaigns Lead – Opportunity Africa” as the email subject line.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Africa No Filter is an equal opportunity organisation and strongly encourages applications from qualified candidates across Africa.
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