Job Opportunity for Campaign Director: Purpose Climate Lab at Purpose in Delhi

About Purpose Climate Lab

The Purpose Climate Lab’s mission is to accelerate and build the ambition of just climate solutions around the globe.

We support innovative climate campaigns and cultural interventions using an experimental approach—embracing failure as an opportunity to learn and innovate—and taking advantage of cutting-edge digital and communications strategies to achieve meaningful impact. Our work is rooted in our partnership with a wide variety of key stakeholders, ranging from local organizations, to businesses, to key influencers specific to the geographies we engage in.

We embrace the idea of movement generosity, delivering our support and strategic campaigning in the spirit of building local capacity, and operating under the brands most compelling to our partners and their stakeholders

About The Role

Purpose is seeking a Campaign Director to spearhead the Purpose Climate Lab’s India campaigns and join our internationally diverse campaigns team. We’re looking for folks with strong public mobilization campaigning and leadership experience, with a background in climate or a related issue area being a plus.

You should have approximately 13 years work experience, including several years managing multidisciplinary teams and complex projects, and serving as a lead representative with clients and stakeholders, including senior leadership of major foundations, NGOs, and corporations. You should have experience in and enthusiasm for fundraising or new business.

This role will be responsible for managing the Climate Lab’s India portfolio of work — creating innovative and inspiring campaign strategy, overseeing implementation, ensuring projects are on-budget and on-time, and tracking against long-term strategy and KPIs. The PCL Campaign Director will work in conjunction with the Climate Lab’s leadership team and in-country program and project managers, to ensure high-quality project design, implementation, measurement and reporting.

Directors play a leadership role on our Campaign team, lead campaign projects, collaborate with our creative campaigning team, manage clients, proactively seek out new ways to grow the business, and contribute to the development of the wider Campaign team.

We’re looking for team players with passion, a sharp mind, high integrity, a hands-on attitude, and an entrepreneurial, problem-solving spirit.

The role reports to the Head of Office and is offered at the Director tier with a salary band of ₹35,00,000 – ₹52,35,000 per year. We’re open to candidates based in Delhi or Mumbai.

Responsibilities:

Campaign Development & Management:

• Build, prototype, and launch new online and offline campaigns and accelerate the most promising existing efforts based on data driven insights;
• Provide decision making, oversight and troubleshooting capacity on a number of campaigns being executed simultaneously;
• Drive insights and build innovative ways of campaigning in the Indian context and support thinking of campaign development in international offices;
• Play a role in the development and constant refinement of our model of acceleration and creation:

How do we assess which projects are the most impactful? How do we create quantum and not just incremental change?

Business Development: Grow the Purpose India project pipeline, identifies new BD opportunities, convert leads into Purpose business opportunities, and leverages issue or functional expertise with high level partnerships.

Partnerships Development & Management:

• Cultivate trusted advisor status with senior client contacts, steering stakeholders towards stronger outcomes and negotiates persuasively to create solutions
• Integrate into the partner outreach process and identify engagement opportunities for campaign collaboration
• Manage partnerships with clients, vendors, partners and corporations

Leadership & Team Building:

• Support ongoing work across issue areas, with a focus on climate change;
• Manage multiple people with their long-term career growth in mind;
• Seek out unofficial mentorship opportunities and create an open environment for two-way feedback with team members;
• Lead by example. Set the standard and models leadership on internal and external projects through strong expectation management, direction and delegation and fosters ownership and commitment in others;
• Set expectations and hold self and others accountable to Purpose standards; and support and guide others in maintaining positive and respectful relationships, particularly during times of conflict/change.

About You

• 13+ years work experience, including several years managing multidisciplinary teams and complex projects;
• Campaign or communications background, ideally from a leading consultancy/agency or non-profit advocacy organisation, serving as a lead representative with clients and stakeholders, including senior leadership of major foundations, NGOs, and corporations, with a demonstrated track record leading complex projects with multidisciplinary teams in a deadline-driven environment;
• Experience managing large-scale campaigns from concept through execution, including
• Developing and executing campaigns across channels, including earned and paid media, content-led strategies, and direct action;
• Experience running iterative, agile, and/or lean campaigns that emphasise experimentation and scaling of success, ideally within a technology context;
• Established relationships with key advocacy organisations, including experience working in partnership;
• Background in political advocacy, organising, digital marketing, public policy, or related field;
• Understanding of Indian campaigning landscape;
• Ability to manage a young, dynamic and ambitious team;
• Excellent writing and communication skills;
• Passion, a sharp mind, high integrity, a hands-on attitude, and an entrepreneurial, problem-solving spirit

If these are the things that get you up in the morning, we want to hear from you! Please submit your resume and a cover letter that gives us insight into your passion and qualifications for the role.

Purpose takes on some of the biggest challenges in the world, which affect people of different identities and backgrounds in different ways. We are stronger and most effective with a diverse team leading the charge and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome the unique contributions that individuals bring in terms of their education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, color, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs.