Communications Coordinator

Reporting/Supervisor: Head of Communications

Contract duration: Indefinite Term

Contract type: Employee

Travel: Approximately 15%

Remote position based in Colombia or El Salvador

About Acceso

Acceso (www.acceso.org) is an award-winning social enterprise that is revolutionizing food systems in Latin America and the Caribbean to put smallholder farmers first. Acceso’s mission is to create fundamental and lasting positive economic change in the lives of rural smallholder farming families. Acceso’s seed-to-market model provides smallholder farmers with a sustainable way to participate in formalized markets, enabling them to work themselves out of poverty with dignity and to prosper. Acceso is currently a team of over 600 determined and driven change-makers supporting over 35,000 smallholder farmers across Colombia, Haiti, El Salvador and Guatemala.

About This Role

Lead the daily communications operations of Acceso. This includes producing content, managing channels, and coordinating vendors, ensuring that the work with rural producers, markets, and climate resilience is conveyed clearly, consistently, and credibly to every stakeholder group.

Key Responsibilities

• Produce graphic, audiovisual, and written materials for social media, web, newsletters, and presentations, following brand identity.
• Manage the organization’s social media accounts: editorial calendar, posting, community engagement, monitoring, and metric reporting.
• Write articles, impact stories, press releases, and institutional content in both Spanish and English.
• Oversee internal communications: team messages, updates, and support for organizational culture.
• Coordinate contractors and vendors (design, photography, video, translation, agencies): briefs, timelines, quality control, and assigned budget.
• Support the Head of Communications in reputation management, stakeholder mapping and engagement (donors, partners, government, communities, media), and message preparation for sensitive situations.
• Travel to the field to collect stories, testimonies, and visual material with informed consent and respect for the dignity of producers and families.
• Maintain the content archive and brand assets in an organized manner.
  
  

Qualifications

• Professional degree in Communication, Journalism, Marketing, Business Administration, or related fields.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in corporate communications, both internal and external.
• Experience working in or with organizations headquartered in the United States.
• Excellent writing skills in Spanish; advanced English proficiency, written and spoken (C1).
• Management of social media platforms and their analytics and scheduling tools.
• Practical knowledge of graphic design (Adobe Creative Suite or Canva).
• Understanding of reputation management and stakeholder engagement.
• Mission driven and personal commitment to improving the lives of smallholder farmers.
• Strong entrepreneurial spirit and business sense.
• Ability to build trust and collaborative relationships.
• Highly organized with excellent time management skills.
• Drive and ability to work independently and handle multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Travel: Ability to travel ~15% of the time, with occasional periods of higher or lower travel needs mostly in rural areas.
• Language skills:  Working fluency in Spanish and English. French or Haitian Creole a plus.
  
  

Application Instructions

To apply, please submit your CV/Resume and Cover Letter via the form below. For your application to be considered, please submit all materials in English.