Network Manager: Communications & Advocacy

The Opportunity

The Global Fund for a New Economy (GFNE) is seeking a Network Manager to strengthen and connect our growing communications and advocacy networks. This role ensures the smooth coordination of GFNE’s communications hubs and new civic infrastructure partners, enabling them to deliver meaningful impact in their regions and contribute to GFNE’s global voice.

The Network Manager will act as the glue between GFNE and its partners, building trusted relationships, ensuring smooth processes, and supporting collaboration across borders. This is an opportunity for someone who thrives on building community, solving problems, and making complex systems run smoothly.

About GFNE

Founded in 2024, GFNE partners with leaders and organizations around the world to build an economic system that centers people, protects the planet, and strengthens democracy. We provide catalytic funding, strategic partnerships, and operational infrastructure to help shape this transition.

We are a remote-first, globally distributed team with programmatic priorities in Brazil, India, the United States, South Africa, Kenya, Germany, the United Kingdom, Colombia, Mexico, and Indonesia.

About the Role

The Network Manager will dedicate around 70% of their time to supporting GFNE’s global communications network and 30% to supporting civic infrastructure and advocacy partners.

The role works closely with the Director of Strategic Communications and the Director of Special Programs and Partnerships (Advocacy and Organising). It requires a mix of operational coordination, partner engagement, and network facilitation. The Manager will:

• Act as the first point of contact and trusted connector for hubs and partners.
• Facilitate smooth processes across contracts, finances, and convenings.
• Enable effective peer learning and knowledge sharing across countries.
• Lead digital adaptation, including training hubs on new tools and systems.

This role is both operational and strategic, providing exposure to high-level advocacy and communications initiatives and giving the right candidate visibility across GFNE’s global networks.

Key Responsibilities

This role supports GFNE’s external communications hubs as well as our advocacy and civic infrastructure partners. Many of the duties therefore involve external engagement, coordination, and relationship management with our various partners, alongside internal collaboration.

General

• Facilitate regular team meetings for our external partners and communication hubs, and coordinate schedules for the core Global team and the networks, including the 11 hubs.
• Organize network gatherings and in-person convenings (e.g., retreats, peer learning events).
• Manage documentation, databases, and shared tools to track hub progress and network impact.
• Ensure smooth processes across contracts, procurement, and reimbursements.
• Support cross-team communication and knowledge management within GFNE.

Communications Network (70%)

• Support and connect 11 communications hubs to deliver on goals such as training spokespeople, securing media coverage, producing digital content, and fundraising.
• Serve as the conduit between hubs and GFNE operations, ensuring timely grant disbursements, payments, and contract management.
• Facilitate hub calls, retreats, and peer-learning sessions, ensuring agendas, actions, and follow-up are managed.
• Train hubs on new systems and AI-enabled tools to strengthen capacity and track impact.
• Collect and share insights from hubs for use in GFNE fundraising proposals, reports, and global strategy.
• Maintain shared logs (e.g., media bookings, fundraising trackers) to ensure consistent reporting and evaluation.

Advocacy and Organising (30%)

• Support the setup and coordination of new advocacy and grassroots organizing partners.
• Facilitate partner meetings and networking events, ensuring smooth logistics and follow-up.
• Support external partners with contracts and onboarding of new employees, in collaboration with GFNE operations.
• Identify capacity-building opportunities and source consultants for areas such as legal entity setup, strategy design, or fundraising.
• Connect partners across countries for peer-to-peer learning and knowledge sharing.

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of experience in communications, advocacy, or network coordination roles.
• Experience supporting multi-country or global networks, ideally across both the Global North and South.
• Strong organizational and coordination skills, with proven ability to manage multiple moving pieces across time zones.
• Familiarity with Google Workspace, shared databases, messaging platforms, and openness to experimenting with digital and AI tools.
• Experience managing grants, contracts, or financial processes.
• Proven ability to build trusted relationships across diverse cultural contexts.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Flexibility to work across time zones and occasionally outside standard working hours,

Success Profile 

You are likely to thrive in this role if you are:

• A connector who enjoys supporting specialists and partners to succeed.
• Proactive and organized, able to turn complex processes into clear action steps.
• Diplomatic and people-centered, with a genuine interest in building community.
• Comfortable following up to ensure accountability while keeping relationships positive.
• Able to flag issues early and work with others to resolve them.
• Energized by seeing tangible progress every day.

Additional Details

• Location: Remote. Some travel expected for convenings and partner meetings.
• Schedule: Full-time, with flexibility across time zones.
• Compensation: $70,000 – $85,000 USD, plus benefits..
• Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis starting 5th September, 2025

Equity Statement

GFNE is committed to equity and inclusion and strongly encourages applications from candidates of all backgrounds, especially those underrepresented in communications, advocacy, and global governance spaces.