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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 advsors 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:
Associate
Location:
New Delhi
Qualifications:
Personality / Attitude
• Flexible and Adaptible: 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. In this role, specifically, your ability to adapt to shifting circumstances will be highly correlated to your ability to manage the work.
• Ownership: You’re someone who takes ownership and accountability for the work assigned to them. You can expect to be given a short brief, and to run with it, and ensure things happen.
• 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. A large part of your work include getting work prioritized by different teams despite the fact that no one has a directing reporting line to you. This is more likely to happen if you are a natural networker with astute people management skills.
• Fast learner: The Managing Director must have active and in-depth knowledge of each company’s sector.
Given that you’ll be shadowing him, you’ll be expected to learn about a range of issues, and be able to pick up new issues at breakneck speeds.
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: You’ll be expected to create briefs on-the-go, and organize incoming information so that you’re able to source it at a moment’s notice.
• Documentation: You would be expected to be proficient in documentation, modelling and presentation with working proficiency in Microsoft Office.
• Knowledge: You’d be expected to have a working knowledge of the policy landscape, including stakeholders and issues.
• Excellent presentation skills: You’ll be expected to have the presentation skills generally associated with a management consultant.
Professional Qualifications: 1-3 years of work experience is a prerequisite. Additional experience in one or more of the following would be preferred:
• Understanding of the public policy landscape.
• Prior work / internship experience in public policy or management consulting would be highly preferred.
Educational Qualifications: A Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Economics, Law, Communication, Political Science or any other related field.
Responsibilities:
In this role, you’ll be working closely with the Senior Vice President of the firm, and will be assisting them on special projects across advocacy, research, and business.
You can expect the work to be extremely fast-paced. The position is dynamic, and an ideal candidate would be someone who can switch contexts almost immediately, juggle multiple objectives at the same time, and execute with precision.
The work at Chase India is generally a mix of research, stakeholder management, programme & project management, and communications & advocacy. In this role, however, you will not only be assisting on the client side of things as the need arises but also be ensuring the smooth functioning of the team. In general, some of the things you can expect include:
• Background Research: You would be expected to assist in research that will be used for meetings, articles and talks given by a senior leader in the organization.
• Helping in prioritizing time: A key part of this role will be to help the Senior Vice President prioritize their time.
• Building and optimizing workflows: You’ll be expected to help create systems that will ensure smooth functioning of work.
• 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 their ends.
Briefing and Preparation: In this role, you’ll be expected to ensure that the Senior Vice President is adequately briefed and prepared for all their meetings. You’ll be expected to track the agenda of, and deliverables from his conversations, and work with them to make sure that action is taken against each commitment.
• You will be expected to create/review meeting notes and other standard documents such as briefing documents for meetings.
• You will also be expected to actively prepare and edit communications, presentations, and other documents as required.
Vice President to focus on matters of strategic importance. This will require helping the Managing Director prioritize work while thinking through the short-term and long-term implications of each decision.
Strategic Support and Planning
• Special Projects: Lead and manage high-priority, cross-functional projects involving advocacy, research, and business, aligning them with Chase India’s goals.
• Stakeholder Coordination: Facilitate interactions with key external stakeholders, including clients, government bodies, industry leaders, and partners, ensuring clear communication and timely follow – up on project milestones.
• Executive Support: Assist the Senior Vice President in preparing strategic presentations, reports, and briefing materials for internal and external engagements.
• Business Growth: Identify new opportunities and partnerships, assisting in the development of proposals and business development strategies
Program & Project Management
• Workflow Optimization: Build and optimize internal workflows and operational processes to enhance efficiency across the team.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Coordinate across different teams, including research, communications, and advocacy teams, to ensure alignment of project goals with broader organizational objectives.
Relationship Management
• Client Engagement: Support client management efforts by preparing client briefs, updating on progress, and handling client communications when required.
• Internal Team Liaison: Act as a bridge between the Senior Vice President and the rest of the Chase India team, ensuring alignment of goals and activities across projects.
• Partnerships and Networks: Cultivate and maintain relationships with key partners and external entities critical to advancing Chase India’s advocacy and business goals.
Networking and Relationship Building
• Expanding Networks: Assist the Senior Vice President in building and expanding professional networks with industry leaders, government representatives, media, and influential stakeholders. This includes attending conferences, events, and meetings, and identifying networking opportunities to further the organization’s advocacy and business goals.
• Partnership Development: Proactively explore potential partnerships and collaborations with relevant organizations, foundations, and government bodies that align with Chase India’s mission and objectives.
• Industry Engagement: Represent Chase India at external forums, ensuring consistent visibility for the organization and its advocacy initiatives. Engage with key influencers in the policy, business, and social impact spaces to establish and maintain strategic relationships
Internal Coordination and Success: You will be the point of contact for coordination, updates, and execution of work to be done within the organization among the different teams. You will be expected to build relationships within the team to be able to get work done not only with the Chase India team but also with the AvianWE team.
• Supporting the Administrative team with information required to raise invoices.
• Coordinating with the internal teams (finance, HR etc) on any other miscellaneous needs that may arise for clients.
New Business Development: You will actively work with the Managing Director to assess and find new avenues for creating business: geographically, sectorally, and functionally.
• Proposals: You will work closely with the Managing Director, and the internal teams to build pitch-decks, and financial projections and prepare proposals.
• Case studies: Working with new and older members of the team to compile and update credentials and case studies on a timely basis, and updating credentials for the organization.
How to apply:
Interested candidates can Apply here
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