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Location and Work Mode

This is a hybrid, full-time position based in Mexico. The preferred location is Mexico City; proximity to La Paz, Baja California Sur, is a plus. The role requires regular travel to BCS.

Who we are

Innovaciones Alumbra is an ecosystem of organizations committed to demonstrating and catalyzing economic models that restore nature, honor community, and promote prosperity. With a focus in Baja California Sur, its work spans ocean, land, and place, advancing initiatives across interconnected impact themes and organizations—including philanthropy, investments, operating businesses, and applied research centers.

Our impact

iAlumbra advances regenerative development through interconnected levers:

• Sustainability & Economic Development: Promoting balance between communities, economy, and the environment through demonstrated models that can be codified, replicated, and scaled.

• Public Policy Advocacy: Advancing sustainable development policies in Baja California Sur and influencing broader regulatory and policy frameworks to enable and enforce new ways of operating.

• Strategic Partnerships: Collaborating with governments, organizations, investors, and local communities to align action across sectors.

• Communication & Positioning: Leading advocacy and sustainability communication strategies that elevate evidence, shift narratives, and influence decision-makers.

Purpose of the Position

In this role you will strengthen regional, national, and global positioning across initiatives that demonstrate what’s possible, forge connections across sectors, build awareness and inspire community action, and shape beliefs and behaviors of cross-cutting stakeholders. You will help shape critical issues in sustainable economic development to influence public policy, operational practice and investment decisions.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic narrative & messaging:

• Develop coordinated communication strategies across iAlumbra's impact themes, integrated initiatives, and critical issues to influence policy, practice, and investment decisions.

• Craft key messages, narratives, and executive positioning in alignment with iAlumbra's theory of change and priorities.

Media strategy & external visibility:

• Oversee media strategy and press relations, ensuring disciplined and consistent messaging.

• Guide development of pitches, op-eds, and media outreach through external firms.

• Monitor media coverage and public perception metrics, ensuring insights inform daily strategy and execution.

Issue framing and policy-adjacent communications:

• Lead long-horizon issue framing strategies — for example, a year-long agenda-setting effort on desertification, water scarcity, and watershed restoration — building public understanding before introducing initiatives and solutions.

• Partner closely with public affairs and policy leadership to align narrative and advocacy strategy, including engagement with federal stakeholders.

Crisis communications & reputational risk:

• Lead crisis communications planning and response in close coordination with leadership.

• Support proactive reputation protection by ensuring disciplined narrative practices, role clarity, and risk awareness across initiatives.

Integrated ecosystem coordination:

• Coordinate communication alignment with regional teams and engage communications and marketing staff across the ecosystem.

• Oversee content strategy across formats — press releases, speeches, opinion pieces, digital content, events, and knowledge products.

• Ensure seamless integration between Mexico City / national communications and Baja California Sur / regional execution.

Requirements and competences to work with us

Education

• Preferred academic backgrounds: Communications, Journalism, Political Science, Public Policy, International Relations, Environmental Policy / Sustainability, or Economics and Social Sciences with a strong communications specialization.

• A postgraduate degree (Master's level) in Public Policy, Strategic Communications, Environmental Policy, Sustainability, International Affairs, or a related field is considered a strong advantage, though not mandatory.

Experience

• 8–10+ years of professional experience in strategic communications, public affairs, or policy-adjacent communications roles.

• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing high-level communications strategies in complex and fast-moving environments.

• Proven experience working in Mexico, with familiarity with the country's policy, media, and stakeholder landscape.

• Strong experience managing or collaborating with cross-sector stakeholders, including government institutions, private sector leaders, civil society organizations, and community actors.

• Experience in policy advocacy, issue management, and narrative framing processes, particularly around complex public-interest topics.

• Experience guiding and managing external communications firms, PR agencies, or consultants to ensure quality control and strategic alignment.

• Exposure to environmental sustainability, natural resources, climate, regenerative development, or related impact sectors is highly desirable.

Knowledge and Skills

• Full bilingual proficiency in Spanish and English — written and spoken — for executive-level positioning and global ecosystem coordination.

• Strong understanding of media monitoring, sentiment analysis, reach, share of voice, and how to translate insights into strategy.

• Ability to adapt tone and narrative depending on the audience: policymakers, investors, media, community leaders, and international partners.

Competencies

• Executive presence: ability to contribute strategic value to senior leaders and CEOs across multiple organizations in the ecosystem.

• Comfort with ambiguity and complexity: co-creates answers, listens deeply, and adapts.

• Strong judgment and discretion in politically and reputationally sensitive environments.

• Systems thinking: explores environmental, economic, and social interdependencies in both problem definition and solution design.

Our team profile

• Collective leadership: We are not looking for lone rangers. We work as a team with shared ownership, mutual respect, and consistent support.

• Courage and unconventional thinking: We explore solutions that are overlooked or ahead of the curve, with patience and resilience to prove out complex ideas.

• Humility, science, and learning: We question assumptions, ground our choices in evidence, listen to community, learn from failures, and iterate.

• Systems thinking: We explore environmental, economic, and social interdependencies — from defining problems to designing solutions — honoring local sense of place.

• Long-term orientation: Creative approaches take time to mature; we trust the process of building, testing, and evolving.

• Community-centered approach: We believe the best solutions come from those closest to the problems; we operate with a beginner's mindset.

Key interests for working with us

This role is best suited for someone motivated by:

• Environmental sustainability and regeneration.

• Economic development models that strengthen communities and create long-term prosperity.

• Public policy advocacy to improve environmental regulations and enable new ways of operating.

• Purpose-driven leadership and trust-building with communities and cross-sector stakeholders.

Reasons to join our team

We offer a competitive compensation package and a genuine opportunity to lead high-impact strategic communications at the intersection of sustainability, policy, and community development.

• Competitive salary, aligned to market

• Permanent, full-time contract

• Individual performance-based annual bonus

• Medical insurance and benefits in accordance with Mexican labor laws

• Leadership opportunities in policy-adjacent communications and sustainability

• A space for innovation and high-impact strategy

• Collaboration with a global team and exposure to senior leaders across the iAlumbra ecosystem

Relevant details before applying for this vacancy

This is a new position created as part of a restructuring of iAlumbra's communications, public affairs, and policy functions. The Deputy Director will report directly to the Head of Communications, Public Affairs, and Policy – Mexico and will work closely with regional and national communications teams, as well as external agencies and consultants.

• Contract type: Permanent (open-ended)

• Work modality: Hybrid – Mexico-based, with regular travel to Baja California Sur

• Trial period: Between 30 and 180 days, in accordance with Article 39-A of the Federal Labor Law (LFT)

• Salary details will be shared during the process