World Green Building Council
Marketing & Communications Manager (Roadmaps)
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Location: UK Hybrid/Remote
Contract: Fixed-term (12 months)
Salary: Competitive, dependent on experience
Reporting to: Head of Marketing & Communications
About WorldGBC
World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) represents a global network of Green Building Councils (GBCs) working to accelerate the transition to a sustainable built environment. Through our global campaigns, partnerships and thought leadership, our work brings together governments, businesses and organisations across the world to drive climate action at scale.
About the role
We are seeking a Communications and Marketing Manager to lead the communications delivery of our Roadmaps Project, alongside supporting wider organisational communications activity.
This role will play a central part in shaping and delivering compelling, high-quality communications that support the successful rollout and impact of our global Roadmaps work – a key part of our 2025-2027 strategy. The role requires particular strengths in PR, content creation, and digital storytelling. The postholder will also manage web content for the project, ensuring content is engaging, accessible and aligned with SEO best practices.
The role will also lead communications for WorldGBC’s European BuildingLife project, overseeing the development and delivery of integrated communications to support its objectives. The postholder will ensure BuildingLife messaging is clear, compelling and aligned with wider organisational priorities, helping to drive engagement and impact across the project and its links to WorldGBC’s global Roadmaps project.
The Communications and Marketing Manager will report to the Head of Marketing and Communications and work closely with the Marketing & Communications team along with programme and regional leads to deliver integrated, high-impact communications.
Responsibilities
Roadmaps project communications delivery
- Lead the planning and delivery of communications activity for the Roadmaps Project, ensuring alignment with project objectives and organisational priorities.
- Develop clear, compelling narratives and messaging to support project outputs and stakeholder engagement.
- Work closely with programmes and regions teams to embed communications from early stages of delivery.
- Ensure all outputs are delivered to a high standard, on time, and aligned with brand and tone of voice.
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Content creation and storytelling
- Act as a lead writer for the project, producing high-quality content including key narrative messaging, thought leadership blogs, webpage content, social media, press materials and speaker briefs.
- Work with the programmatic team to develop strategic communications about the impact tracking of the roadmaps projects, ensuring the success and impact is clear and highly visible
- Translate complex technical content into clear, engaging and accessible narratives for a range of audiences.
- Provide copy editing support to ensure consistency, clarity and impact across deliverables.
PR and media engagement
- Develop and deliver public relations (PR) plans to raise the profile and impact of the Roadmaps Project.
- Draft press releases, media briefings and reactive statements.
- Identify and support media opportunities, working with partners and stakeholders where relevant.
- Build and maintain relationships with media and seek proactive opportunities for op-eds, interviews etc.
Website and digital content management
- Support the development of ongoing website work including: reviewing current website structure related to Roadmaps project and proposing improved navigation and user journey.
- Create and edit web content, ensuring it is user-focused, accessible and aligned with brand guidelines.
- Apply SEO best practices to optimise content performance and discoverability.
- Use analytics and performance data to inform improvements to digital content and user experience.
Wider communications support
- Support broader organisational communications activities as required, including global campaigns and events.
- Collaborate with colleagues across the Marketing & Communications team to ensure consistency and alignment.
- Contribute to planning processes, including providing input on content approach, narrative development and output formats.
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About you
We are looking for a strong communicator with a passion for creating impactful, high-quality content within a purpose-driven organisation.
You will bring:
- Experience in communications, marketing or PR roles, ideally within sustainability, built environment, or a related sector.
- Strong writing, editing and storytelling skills, with the ability to translate complex ideas into clear, engaging content.
- Proven experience delivering PR and media engagement activity.
- Experience managing or editing website content (CMS experience desirable).
- Good understanding of digital communications and SEO best practices.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and work across projects in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills.
- High attention to detail and commitment to quality.
Desirable:
- Experience working on multi-stakeholder or international projects.
- Familiarity with sustainability, climate or built environment topics.
- Experience using analytics tools to measure and improve communications performance.
- Strong visual communication skills, with experience developing presentations and marketing materials.
- Proficiency in PowerPoint for creating and updating high-quality, on-brand slide decks.
- Experience using Adobe Creative Suite (e.g. InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop) to produce engaging visual content.
Contract Information
This is a fixed-term position for 18 months.
How to Apply
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Application deadline: 3rd August 2026
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