Communication & Influence Manager (M/F)

About the company

FAIR is the leading player in solidarity finance. The association federates more than 150 organizations (banks, asset management companies, mutual insurers, insurers, social enterprises) and also carries the Finansol label, the benchmark for solidarity savings in France. In a context of continuous growth of solidarity savings and the structuring of the sector, FAIR plays a central role in animation, expertise, and influence with public decision-makers.

Your tasks

We are looking for, for FAIR, a collective of social and solidarity impact finance actors, its future Communication & Influence Manager.

As part of its organizational evolution and the preparation of its next strategic cycle, FAIR wishes to strengthen its ability to make solidarity and social impact finance known and understood, to give the greatest number of people the power to act through finance, and to carry the voice of its collective to decision-makers and stakeholders.

Reporting to the General Management and as a member of the management team, you will define and lead FAIR's communication and influence strategy. Both strategist and operational, you will build a strong and accessible narrative, promote the association's expertise and proposals, and develop its visibility and influence capacity with its various audiences.

You will manage the Communication & Influence department and work in close collaboration with other FAIR teams, notably the Label & Observatory and Development & Partnerships departments.

On a daily basis, your missions are broken down more precisely around these main axes:

• Define and lead FAIR's communication and influence strategy, its priorities, audiences, messages, channels, and monitoring indicators.
• Manage a team of 4 people covering institutional, editorial, and graphic communication, events and networking, as well as public affairs; organize priorities and manage associated resources, service providers, and budgets.
• Lead the editorial strategy and its implementation across all FAIR channels: website, social networks, newsletters, publications, campaigns, events, and other media.
• Guarantee the consistency of FAIR's positioning, narrative, and identity, and promote its expertise, data, projects, and positions in order to increase its notoriety and better introduce solidarity / social impact finance.
• Develop the media strategy and press relations, identify media opportunities, and support the General Management, the presidency, and spokespeople in their public speaking.
• Define and lead the influence strategy, ensuring the articulation between communication, advocacy, and public affairs, and contributing to the prioritization of topics, targets, and public speaking.
• Mobilize members, partners, and stakeholders and foster coalitions to amplify the campaigns and proposals carried by FAIR.
• Supervise the communication of the Finansol Label, in connection with the Label & Observatory department and in compliance with its governance and independence.
• Represent the association to the media, partners, public decision-makers, and ecosystem actors when relevant.

Requirements

Positive and committed, you have significant experience, of at least 7 years, in influence communication and advocacy functions, with real responsibility in the definition and deployment of a strategy. A good knowledge of finance, ESS, impact investing, economic and social public policies, or related ecosystems will be particularly appreciated.

An experienced manager, you know how to unite complementary skills and personalities, delegate, help your collaborators grow, and create the conditions for effective cross-functional work. Your strategic vision is accompanied by a real operational capacity, an excellent sense of priorities, and an ease in managing several projects simultaneously.

You master the issues of institutional and editorial communication as well as the codes of media relations and influence. Your excellent writing and synthesis skills allow you to transform technical, economic, or regulatory subjects into clear, accessible, and convincing messages, adapted to various interlocutors.

Comfortable in relations with media, decision-makers, and partners, you know how to build robust arguments, identify the right mobilization levers, and carry an institutional voice.

What we offer

• Fluent professional English (C1)
• Proposed remuneration: €45 to €50K gross annual

How to apply

Do you want to put your expertise in communication and influence at the service of more solidarity-based finance? We look forward to your application!