Are you a law graduate/ legal professional looking for job opportunities as a Manager / Senior Manager? This opportunity might be of interest to you!
About:
Founded in 2011, Chase India is South Asia’s leading research and public policy consulting firm. They help clients create business impact, mitigate risks, drive social change and form long-standing collaborations with advocates and key stakeholder groups.
They guide the private sector and not-for-profit organizations through the ever-changing policy and regulatory landscape. Their in-depth sector and policy knowledge make them well-placed to serve as trusted advisors to their clients in sensitive but crucial matters such as government engagement, creating social impact, and planning strategic communications campaigns.
The team at Chase India comprises functional and sectoral experts who have extensive experience working with regulatory and industry bodies, government organizations, academia, and media. Their team has vast experience of working across federal, state, and municipal levels.
Chase India is a sister consultancy of Avian WE, itself a group company of WE Communications, one of the largest independent communications agencies in the world, headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
Role:
Manager / Senior Manager
Area:
Public Policy Professional
Location:
New Delhi
Qualifications:
- The ideal candidate for this position would be someone with 6-10 years of work experience, who can join as soon as possible.
- Flexible: In line with our values, we’re looking for someone who is nimble enough to adapt to changing circumstances and work in a fast-paced environment. More likely than not, our work may require you to multi-task between multiple clients.
- Ownership: You’re someone whose first instinct is to say,
“Don’t worry, I got this” when given work. This doesn’t mean that we expect you to know everything in advance, but we’re looking for someone who is willing to take responsibility for the work and make sure it’s completed.
- High Emotional Intelligence: The job requires you to interact with a number of different stakeholders from colleagues to clients to internal teams and other external partners. As such, we’re looking for someone who is able to empathize and understand each stakeholder’s needs and context to come to a solution.
- Interpersonal Skills: You’re someone who is a natural at building relationships with people you meet, and can become a trusted partner for the long-run.
Skills
- Verbal and written communication skills: As the work entails documenting and creating communication material, you’d be expected to be someone who has a natural flair for the same.
- Research, analytical and organizational skills: As research forms the basis of our advocacy strategy, you’d be expected to be able to have strong research and analytical skills.
- Documentation and presentation: You would be expected to be proficient in documentation and presentation with working proficiency in Microsoft Office.
Professional Qualifications:
- 6-10 years of work experience is a prerequisite, with prior experience managing teams in a fast-paced role. Additional experience in one or more of the following would be preferred:
- Prior work in public policy or consulting.
- Any past experience in roles that required a significant amount of research and communication.
- Prior work in the sector that you’re applying to would be preferred.
- Existing relationships and networks in this field of work will be beneficial.
- Past experience working with a consulting firm, think-tank, Member of Parliament, CSO or industry association would be beneficial
- A Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Law, Communication, Political Science or any other related field.
- A master’s degree is a plus, but not a requisite.
Responsibilities:
- This is the firm’s mid-level position wherein, the Senior Manager, Public Policy will support the team lead and other senior staff with client deliverables, client service, and internal functioning.
- In this role, you’ll serve as the daily point of contact on varied client engagements. You will leverage the capabilities of senior members of the Chase India team and utilize their own expertise and networks to manage and support client campaign delivery. You will be expected to take ownership, operate independently (with senior team members to lean on for support), and mentor and support junior team members, as required.
- Given that this is a senior role at the cusp of leadership within the organization, you’ll be expected to proactively ideate and work towards building the reputation of Chase India. Additionally, you will also be expected to have pre-existing relationships within the sphere of public policy and will be expected to actively create relationships and networks for yourself, your clients, and the organization.
The focus and mix of the work vary based on the needs of each client, but the work largely comprises of the following at this level:
- Research and Research Management: Research and intelligence form the basis of their advocacy and communications strategy. While they largely do secondary research, certain projects may require them to gather intelligence and / or analyse primary data as well. Occasionally, they may work closely with research agencies to direct and coordinate reports.
- Stakeholder Management: Given that they have to build alliances and supporters, a lot of their job involves liaising with stakeholders and creating and managing partnerships.
- Programme and Project Management: While they may not execute programs on behalf of their clients, they often do overlook the coordination and tracking of programs and projects.
- Communications and Advocacy: One of the key aspects of their work is to design and execute complete advocacy strategies that may encompass various programmes, communications, partnerships, and other methods to achieve our ends.
- Reputation Management: In this role, they would expect to actively work towards building the reputation of the organization by working with the leadership team to develop properties in spaces of interest.
- Hiring and People Management: In this role, a decent amount of time will go towards nurturing existing talent, while also interviewing for vacancies in the organization
Client Management and Deliverables:
- You will be responsible for leading the execution of work on clients, servicing their needs and doing the following inter alia:
Being the client’s point of contact: You will be the point-of-contact for the client and will lead communications and coordination of work with the client.
- Understanding the client’s business and needs:
- You’ll be responsible for learning and understanding the client’s business, industry, and regulatory environment, so as to deliver work up to expectations.
- You’ll be expected to proactively think about the client’s needs and how you can creatively think about ideas that can help them achieve these goals.
- You’ll also assist senior team members in working with clients to help them define realistic OKR.
- Execution of Deliverables:
- You will be responsible for working with junior and senior members of the team to build advocacy strategies in line with the goals of the client, and oversee execution of the same.
- You will be responsible for ensuring that deliverables going from the team are par excellence and prompt.
- You will also be expected to actively prepare and edit communications, presentations, and other documents required for fulfilling client deliverables, as required.
- Instituting processes: You will be expected to institute processes that help reduce friction in the completion of client work.
- Client Expectations: You will also be responsible for managing the expectations of clients they’re servicing
- Manage and review of work: You will be expected to take the lead in distributing work among team members, and reviewing any communication before it goes to a client.
Salary:
You will be offered a competitive salary, in line with industry standards.
How to Apply:
Interested candidates can Apply here (click here)
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