About the Role
The Communications Coordinator supports LeapFrog's external communications across content production, social media and video. This is a contracting role of 8 hours per week until December. Reporting to the Senior External Affairs and Communications lead, the role spans research, content creation, and channel management – helping to bring the firm's mission and investment story to life across all touchpoints. The ideal candidate will have a working knowledge of impact investing and business, strong writing and video editing skills, and the ability to manage multiple workstreams in a fast-paced environment.
About Leapfrog Investments
LeapFrog invests in healthcare, financial services and climate solutions businesses in high-growth global markets. Its companies deliver distinctive impact and robust returns, growing revenues on average 22% a year. LeapFrog companies now reach 559 million people with essential services in 37 countries. The firm has raised billions of dollars from global institutional investors, including a $500m commitment by Temasek to LeapFrog and its growth equity funds. LeapFrog has twice been ranked by Fortune as one of the top Companies to Change the World, alongside Apple and Novartis, and was named inaugural Pioneer in Impact by the FT and IFC at the Transformational Business Awards. For more information visit: www.leapfroginvest.com.
Core Responsibilities
- Research portfolio companies, industry trends, and the impact investing landscape to inform content strategy and output.
- Support the development and maintenance of a communications and content calendar across platforms and content types.
- Assist with broader communications projects as required, including awards submissions, newsletter production, and stakeholder materials.
- Edit and produce video content for social media, event highlights, and thought leadership outputs.
- Coordinate and produce visual assets across communications activity, liaising with internal teams to ensure brand consistency.
- Draft, schedule, and publish content across LeapFrog's social media channels, maintaining a consistent brand voice and cadence.
- Track and report on content performance using platform analytics.
- Manage and maintain multimedia asset libraries, including video, photography, and design files.
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Journalism, Communications or equivalent.
- Minimum 2 years' relevant experience.
- An excellent portfolio of relevant work creating content and driving engagement.
- Experience managing website content, ideally on WordPress.
- A background in journalism or policy/technical writing is preferred.
- Expertise in delivering digital content, growing, and managing audiences, ideally on LinkedIn and Twitter channels.
- A wide range of content creation skills and/or a high degree of comfort managing content production in all relevant media.
- Familiarity and affinity with impact investment and emerging markets.
- A passion for succinct, clear, and magnetic writing that turns big ideas into eye-catching headlines.
- Clear passion for delivering meaningful social impact alongside top-tier financial returns.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Journalism, Communications or equivalent.
- Minimum 2 years' relevant experience.
- Portfolio of relevant work creating content and driving engagement.
- Experience managing website content.
- Experience with WordPress.
- Background in journalism or policy/technical writing.
- Expertise in delivering digital content and growing and managing audiences.
- Experience managing LinkedIn and Twitter channels.
- Video editing and producing video content for social media and events.
- Wide range of content creation skills and comfort managing content production across media.
- Familiarity with impact investing and emerging markets.
- Strong, succinct writing and headline creation skills.
What We Do
LeapFrog invests in exceptional businesses in Asia and Africa to enable leaps of growth, profitability and impact. The group’s portfolio of companies reaches 537 million people with financial services, healthcare and climate solutions, across more than 37 countries. 359 million of those people are emerging consumers; many of whom are accessing formal insurance, savings, pensions, credit, remittances or healthcare for the first time. LeapFrog, which has had close to $3 billion of capital committed, brings a track record of more than a decade as a trusted General Partner to investors in private markets. LeapFrog Investments invests $20-75 million for majority or influential minority stakes in growing companies that have exceptional management teams and are focused on providing services that address the needs of emerging consumers. LeapFrog companies have grown on average by 23% per year since investment, and the group is now backed by many of the world’s leading institutional investors. LeapFrog twice been named by Fortune as one of the top Companies to Change the World, in 2017, this was alongside Apple and Novartis, becoming the first private investment group ever listed. LeapFrog’s proprietary measurement framework contributes to new expectations for integrated reporting and to the advancement of industry best practices. LeapFrog is both a signatory to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment, and a recipient of their highest ranking level, A+. LeapFrog is a founding Investors Council Member of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) and is a funder and member of the advisory group of The Impact Management Project.
