Position: Communication Officer

Organization: Quest Alliance

Location: Patna / Ranchi / Deogarh

Apply: https://questalliance.zohorecruit.com/careers

About the Role

As a Communications Officer, you will work towards communicating the impact of the program by documenting key highlights and success stories in the region. 

You will work in close collaboration to ensure a seamless flow of information and brand adherence. This is an exciting opportunity to provide oversight for the program’s state-level efforts in transforming the lives of young people.

1. Documenting and Communicating Impact

• Capture case studies and success stories of students, teachers and Institutes in the state/region.

• Provide support to the state/regional team in communicating their work to govt officials with the help of  drafting content for monthly, quarterly, annual reports, newsletters and any other communication material.

• Regularly provide content for social media updates to ensure the state's/region’s work is highlighted in multiple communication channels.

• Take ownership of the events calendar in states/regions and inform the Communications Coordinator of key events and event-based collateral requirements well in advance.

• Support to run campaigns on state-social media pages.

• Maintain a state-level/regional-level database of media contacts & vendors (photographers, designers, and other consultants)

• Support state teams to make internal event reports and document impact.

• Review critical documents that are external facing for brand guidelines, grammar, messaging, and design consistency.

2. State Communication Strategy

• Work in collaboration to come up with a state/regional communications plan

• Work in collaboration to build a content calendar for state social media pages.

• Be that one single point of contact from the state or region to put forth communication needs and requirements.

• Work closely to ensure adherence to brand guidelines

• Maintain a database of success stories, photographs, and video testimonials. 

Requirements

We are looking for people with: 

• Fluency in using MS office and Google suite

• Impeccable writing skills in English and <regional languages>

• Basic knowledge of design tools ( Adobe Suite, Canva or Powtoons) * Not Mandatory

• Candidates with a background in journalism or mass communications

• 1-3 years of experience in journalism, advertising or the social sector

• Ability to build state-level context to social issues

• Awareness of communication trends in the social sector

• Good interpersonal, verbal and visual communication skills

• Ability to work as part of a team with the help of the vision provided

• Experience with scheduling multiple projects and managing timeline 

• A Self- Learner who is willing to learn new tools and techniques for creating communication outputs

• Ability to create and edit short videos is desirable