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YunoJuno connects you with vetted freelance and contract communications managers who plan and deliver internal, external and corporate communications. Onboard, contract and pay them in 165+ countries, with compliance handled for you.
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Why hire a freelance communications manager?
Organizations need to say the right thing, consistently, to many audiences. A freelance communications manager brings the planning and writing skill to keep messages clear across media, channels and stakeholders.
Freelancers also give you flexibility. Add a communications manager for a change program, a launch, a gap in your team or a busy period, then scale back when the work is done. Having worked across organizations, they bring structure and templates.
One directory for every communications manager
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How does hiring a freelance communications manager work on YunoJuno?
Create your brief
Browse and book communications managers
Contract, work and pay in one place
What does a freelance communications manager do?
A freelance communications manager plans and delivers communications for an organization, on a project or contract basis. They develop strategy and messaging, manage channels such as press, web, social, email and events, coordinate stakeholders, and measure results. The role spans several audiences, while PR managers focus on media and reputation. Typical responsibilities include:
How much does it cost to hire a freelance communications manager?
Day rates for freelance communications managers vary with seniority, sector, channels covered, the scope of the role, and location. Each freelancer's day rate is shown on their YunoJuno profile, so you can compare options against your budget before you get in touch.
Every year, YunoJuno analyzes data from the projects booked through the platform and publishes it in the Contractor Rates Report. Download the latest rates report to benchmark day rates and project trends.
Manage your freelance communications managers beyond the hire
Onboarding
Worker classification
Contracts, including IP assignement
Timesheets & approvals
Payments
Reporting & spend visibility
Enterprise teams already seeing results
"YunoJuno is a seamless experience and takes a lot of the stress away. Itreally helps from an agility and productivity perspective, quickly answering the business needs and helping to create a much more diverse and output-focused team. The quick payment of freelancers is a game changer — we have managed to reduce time to hire from a week to a couple of hours."
"There were a few critical results for us. The obvious one was keeping everything housed in one place — payments and keeping track of monthly spending. Perhaps more importantly, we were able to build up a bulletproof directory of talent. This has been super helpful for us as a team and as a business, across our regions."
Frequently asked questions
Hire a freelance communications manager when you need extra communications capacity, when you're running a major announcement or change program, or when your communications lead is on leave or has left. They're also useful for setting up a communications plan and for covering a vacancy.
Communications managers vary by sector and audience. Some focus on corporate and external communications, others on internal, change or digital communications. Many work in technology, financial services, healthcare, the public sector or nonprofits. For media relations, a PR manager or media relations manager may fit better, and an internal communications manager focuses on employees. For content, consider an editorial manager. Match their experience to your sector and audiences.
Browse all freelance communications managers on YunoJuno.
Look for a mix of writing and planning skills:
- Excellent writing and editing
- Communications strategy and planning
- Experience across channels, including press, web, social and email
- Stakeholder and leadership management
- Experience in your sector or organization type
- Project and agency management
- Measurement and reporting skills
- Calm handling of sensitive messages
Useful questions to ask before you book:
- Which communications programs have you run, and what did they achieve?
- How do you build a communications plan?
- How do you adapt messages for different audiences?
- How do you manage approvals with legal, HR and leadership?
- Which channels and tools do you manage?
- How do you measure communications impact?
- How do you manage agencies and freelancers?
- How do you handle a sensitive announcement?
The cost of a freelance communications manager depends mainly on seniority, sector, channels covered, the scope of the role, and location. Freelancers set their own day rates, which you can see on their YunoJuno profile before you make contact.
For benchmarks, see YunoJuno's Contractor Rates Report, built from rates data on projects booked through the platform. For what it costs to use YunoJuno itself, see the pricing page.
Post a brief or search the network, and book a freelance communications manager based in or outside your own country. YunoJuno supports payments in 165+ countries and assesses worker classification for every engagement, so you can engage independent talent without managing the compliance work yourself. That includes US contractor compliance for 1099 and W-2 engagements and IR35 status determinations in the UK, as part of YunoJuno's wider global compliance coverage.
It is also fast. Onboarding takes under 5 minutes, worker classification around 15 minutes, and a contract can be in place in under 24 hours. YunoJuno also provides misclassification indemnification, adding protection if a classification is ever challenged.
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