Position: Consultant - Communication and Partnerships

Organization: Dalberg 

Location: Mumbai/Delhi

Apply: https://dalberg.hua.hrsmart.com/hr/ats/Posting/view/441

Your role will focus on Communication and Partnerships, therefore, you should possess the following skills:

• Competence in content strategy and planning
• Excellent stakeholder management competencies and experience working with multiple partners
• Strong abilities in content creation (e.g., copywriting, graphic design, video editing, illustrations)
• Experience in leveraging social media and running campaigns across multiple channels to reach a defined goal

Your main tasks will include:

• Developing and executing impactful communications across different internal/client/partner audiences across print and digital media at national and global levels
• Participating in meeting activities and ongoing dialogues with partners and clients
• Nurturing and growing Dalberg Media’s project portfolio and network of partners and clients
• Driving agendas through advocacy and campaigns on behalf of leading foundations, NGOs, UN and private sector organizations and governments
• Conducting research and analysis on global development issues across our experiences, advocacy, and communication service lines
• Driving internal initiatives such as our mental health, climate, gender, or anti-racism working groups
• Utilizing your creative mindset to conceptualize innovative ideas in close collaboration with project managers to build internal projects from the ground up

ABOUT YOU

You will have a strong profile in communication, innovation and/or event management. You are experienced within global development and sustainability and possess excellent analytical skills, and a creative mindset to help us ideate, create, and implement projects. You are motivated by promoting the use of innovative thinking to advance sustainable development. You are strategic in your approach to problem-solving but are also pragmatic and able to implement in practice. You have experience working with stakeholders across sectors and/or geographies and possess a readiness to challenge established agendas to maximize social impact.

Our ideal candidate's general qualifications include:

• Excellent academic qualifications, e.g., a bachelor, master or advanced degree in Communications, Marketing, Journalism, or related fields
• 3-5 years of professional experience in a similar organization
• Creative mindset and an ability to conceptualize, scope and build new initiatives
• Strong analytical and methodological competencies
• A passion for communication, innovation, and/or event organization, typically evidenced by prior exposure to and experience with the field
• Experience from consulting / advisory sector Preferable
• Skills in Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, and Adobe Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro Preferable
• Experience working in WordPress and Squarespace Preferable
• Fluency in written and oral English
• Authorization to work in India Required

JOIN OUR TEAM

Our current opportunity is in Mumbai, and New Delhi. A base in Bangalore or Mysore in 2022 is also an option.

Please submit your application at our Career Centre, by 11:59 EST on 21 March 2022. During the same recruitment period, please only apply to one position at Dalberg. This position should be the role best suited to your current professional experience and to your first preference location..

Please, note, applications not containing all the required documents will be considered incomplete, and thus will not be reviewed.

To be considered for the position, your application MUST include:

1. Cover letter – please, note the position you are applying for and clearly define your suitability for the role.
2. Resume – please, note where you are based currently and where you would prefer to be based (ideally Mumbai or Delhi).
3. University transcripts
4. And your response to ONE of the following two questions (Please limit your response to fewer than 350 words):
   1. Focusing on one of the SDGs, describe one global policy or action needed to fast-track progress by the year 2030 and outline an effective communications plan to disseminate this.
   2. Working at Dalberg, you will get to advise leaders of large NGO’s, international companies and government agencies on what they should do to more effectively end poverty. What messages would you like to bring to these leaders and why?

Owing to the large number of applications we receive; unfortunately, only successful candidates will be contacted.

Dalberg Media values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands. We offer flexibility for work-life harmonization, incl. parental leave and flexible working options.

Dalberg has pledged to three commitments for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) across the firm:

1. COMMITMENT 1: We commit to publishing internal Dalberg DEI reports annually, to hold ourselves accountable, report on progress and share lessons from our regional DEI plans.
2. COMMITMENT 2: We commit to delivering regular training for all staff (including leadership) on how to engender inclusive workplaces and mitigate unconscious bias.
3. COMMITMENT 3: We commit to addressing imbalances in how power and privilege are formally distributed and informally exercised across the firm.