Senior Director

Il y a 6 heures

Brussels, Belgique Transport & Environment Temps plein

🫵 Role: Senior Director - Communications

📍 Location: Brussels (Ixelles)

đź“… Deadline for applications: 15/11/2026, at midnight

Job Description

Background

Europe’s leading advocates for clean transport and environment, T&E is looking for an exceptional leader to join our team as Senior Director of Communications.

T&E is an independent, non-partisan think tank and NGO working to decarbonize transport. Our vision is a zero-emission mobility system that is affordable and has minimal impacts on our health, climate and the environment. Through our advocacy activities and campaigns, grounded in authoritative analysis and strong coalitions with business and civil society, we have shaped some of Europe’s, and the world’s, most important automotive, aviation and shipping regulations.

The Role

You will lead, develop and implement the organization’s communications strategy.

We are looking for an exceptional people leader to build and lead a high-performing team of experts, fostering a culture of trust, accountability and ambition. You will create the conditions for individuals and teams to perform at their best, grow as leaders, and maximize the organization’s impact.

Top notch communications is core to T&E’s work and identity. You’ll be a key member of the Senior Management Team (SMT), helping set the organization’s overall strategy and report directly to the Executive Director.

Duties and responsibilities

  • Communications strategy: responsible for defining and leading T&E’s overall communication strategy.

  • Team leadership: lead an experienced team to implement T&E's strategy and day-to-day activities, ensuring enhanced collaboration across all T&E offices. Manage departmental budgets.

  • Strategic planning: working with team leads, develop and execute annual strategies for media, public relations, and digital content.

  • Media and public relations: build relationships with journalists, and work with media leads to pitch stories and draft media materials that secure visible, impactful media coverage.

  • Brand management: ensuring all communication reflects T&E's mission and brand values.

  • Editorial oversight: ensure all publications, web and social media content, and media materials reflect the highest standards to maintain T&E's reputation as an independent and trusted source of analysis and policy recommendations.

  • Crisis management: developing plans to effectively manage public relations crises and facilitate quick, strategic communications decisions.

  • Horizon scanning: identify opportunities for T&E communications based on an understanding and analysis of political, media and audience trends.

  • Team culture: cultivate entrepreneurial approaches, encouraging experimentation and risk taking in our response to the news cycle and other opportunities.

Experience and core competencies

  • At least ten years of relevant professional experience in communications and campaigns, including experience in senior leadership roles. Experience i