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About: F ounded 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 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, Policy Communications
Location:
New Delhi
Qualifications:
- Flexible: In line with our values, they’re looking for someone who is nimble enough to adapt to changing circumstances and work in a fast-paced environment. More likely than not, their 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 they’re looking for someone 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 to journalists. 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 a natural at building relationships with people you meet, and can become a trusted partner for the long run.
- 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, you’d be expected to have strong research and analytical skills to effectively support the team.
- Documentation and presentation: You would be expected to be proficient in documentation and presentation with working proficiency in Microsoft Office.
Professional Qualifications:
4-6 years of work experience is a prerequisite. Additional experience in one or more of the following would be preferred:
- Prior experience in work related to corporate image, issues/crisis management and strategic communications across the social/development and health sector.
- Prior experience working as a journalist.
- Exceptional media relations background with a demonstrated capacity to work with global business and key media to manage story development.
Educational Qualifications:
A Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Journalism, Marketing, English, or a related field is preferred.
• A master’s degree is a plus, but not a requisite
Responsibilities:
This is the firm’s mid-level position wherein, the Manager, Policy Communications will support the various client teams with deliverables related to media and communications.
In this role, you’ll be expected to come up with and actively build relationships with key members of the media, and serve as a point of contact with them. You will leverage the capabilities and experience of senior Chase India team members and utilize your expertise and networks to manage and support communications-related deliverables. You will be expected to take ownership and operate independently (with senior team members to lean on for support).
The focus and mix of the work vary based on the needs of each client, but the work largely comprises the following:
• Monitoring and insights: Keeping track of changing media landscape and trends to share insights with clients to help them shape their policy communication strategies. Monitoring relevant news and ecosystem updates in the media for clients and sharing analysis and updates as needed.
• Communication strategies: In this role, you would be expected to work closely with, and support the client teams to develop communication strategies on issue-based advocacy campaigns that align with their client’s goals.
• Writing and content creation: You would also be expected to pitch notes, quotes, ghost-write articles, briefing documents, and other communication material, as required.
• Media Outreach and Engagements: You would be expected to identify relevant media outlets and journalists, pitch issue-based/policy-related stories to them and facilitate strategic engagement opportunities between clients and relevant journalists/editors.
• Relationship and network building: Along with building communication strategies, you would also be expected to execute the same. As such, you’d be expected to work continuously to build relationships with journalists, policy influencers, and other key stakeholders who can support your communications strategies.
How to Apply:
Interested candidates can Apply here (click here)
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