Position: Communications Associate - TNUSSP & CWIS

Organization: IIHS

Location: Chennai

Apply: https://iihs.co.in/job-application/

Job Description

The Practice Team at IIHS is responsible for providing cutting-edge and integrated solutions to India’s urban development challenges by bringing together faculty and experts across diverse domains of knowledge and practice, exposing learners to real-life problems, and integrating practice into academics and research.

The Communications Associate – TNUSSP & CWIS will be responsible for supporting project communications for TNUSSP and CWIS including  newsletter, website and other media. S/he must be able to showcase the work of the programme, while also helping raise the profile of urban sanitation on the whole by creating engaging and interesting content.

This is a contractual project-based engagement for an initial term of 11 months, renewable on mutual consent, and with the potential to turn into a regular position over time.

Activities and Tasks

Responsibilities would include, but not be limited to:

• Assisting in the execution of the project communication plan;
• Supporting the team with media, communications and online training including on-camera interviews, public pieces, editorial outreach, strategic communications and crisis communications;
• Assisting in content development including, editing assistance across all communication material e.g., TNUSSP website, social media, newsletters, blogs, etc.;
• Maintaining a calendar for the website, mailing lists and mailing interface for newsletter;
• Tracking reports and other programme outputs;
• Providing assistance as needed in preparing analytics data for all communication mediums of TNUSSP;
• Providing support to all media related activities including building and maintaining all such relationships;
• Documenting and archiving all project communication output;
• Liaising with the Design team to ensure smooth production of all communication material;
• Providing support to other IIHS activities including academics, research, training, practice, operations and others;
• Participating in all activities of Institution-Building at IIHS; carrying out tasks as assigned by IIHS; and travelling on IIHS work within or outside the country as and when needed.

Structure and Reporting

The Communications Associate – TNUSSP & CWIS will be an External Consultant coordinating with the Team Leader, TNUSSP or any other person designated by the Team Leader, and will be required to collaborate effectively with a diverse group of internal teams and external individuals/organisations.

The role will also require working in close coordination with the IIHS Communications & Design team to ensure that project and programme communications are aligned with the core institutional communication strategy and related guidelines.

Person Specification

The candidate should have:

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Communications, Journalism, Urban development or other related fields with 3-4 years of relevant work experience; prior experience in working on a communications mandate for projects would be preferred;
• The ability to edit documents on a variety of subjects related to urban sanitation;
• A flair for writing, with strong attention to detail;
• A good understanding of, and the ability to, work on social media platforms as and when needed;
• Proficiency in English and Tamil, both spoken and written;
• The ability to work successfully within a team, and to coordinate effectively with multiple other teams;
• The ability to work under pressure and tight deadlines;
• Quick learning ability along with flexibility, curiosity and interest in working with colleagues from different streams of the project;
• Excellent inter-personal skills, and the ability to work in an interdisciplinary environment;
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including MS Word and other desktop publishing software;
• Experience in the development sector would be an advantage.

This is a contractual project-based engagement for an initial term of 11 months, renewable on mutual consent, and with the potential to turn into a regular position over time. This offer is on an exclusive basis, which implies that other professional assignments (whether compensated or not) that bear a potential conflict of interest with the IIHS cannot be undertaken.

The search will remain open until the position is filled.

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