Job Opportunity for Campaigns Associate Director at Purpose in Delhi

About Purpose

Purpose builds and supports movements to advance the fight for an open, just, and habitable world. We use public mobilisation and storytelling to help leading organisations, activists, businesses, and philanthropies engaged in this fight, and we create campaigning labs and new initiatives that can shift policies and change public narratives when it matters most.

To do this, Purpose brings together world-class talent from the world of creatives, content development, storytelling, campaigning, grassroots organising, and political strategy to build new creative campaigning models.

Guided by smart strategy and powered by participation, our work reframes issues, engages new audiences, shifts public discourse, and ultimately drives targeted action and creates lasting impact. Join the team that made all this work!

About The Role

Purpose is seeking a Campaign Associate Director with experience in 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.

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

Associate 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 a Director of Campaigns and is offered at the Associate Director tier. 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?

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
• 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

• 10+ 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.