Job Opportunity for Consultant – Lead, Communications, Parag Initiative at Kalike in Yadgir

About Kalike:

Kalike, an Associate Organization of TATA Trusts strives to facilitate deep, large-scale and long-term impact on the quality of life through interventions in education and livelihoods in Yadgir and neighboring districts in northern Karnataka. Under its long-term vision as an institution, by converging with other portfolios and various government departments and Non-Profit Organizations, Kalike seeks to address these interrelated domains, while keeping Education as a core area of focus. Currently, Kalike has been focusing on ensuring quality education to the rural and deprived children in Yadgir & Koppal district, Karnataka.

About Parag initiative:

The Parag Initiative of Tata Trusts aims to strengthen the children’s literature sector in India to enable a culture of reading among children. To achieve this Parag works supports (i) the development of and access to good quality story books for children in Indian languages; (ii) supports school and community libraries across the country so that children have free access to books and an open and vibrant environment that supports reading for pleasure; (iii) offers professional development courses and works with teachers, librarians and facilitators to develop their capacity to engage with children’s literature and create a relationship between books and children. It also nurtures the children’s literature sector through awards, professional courses and creating platforms for linking stakeholders. Parag is a pan India initiative.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

This critical team member will anchor and manage the overall communication vertical for Parag Initiative. The key responsibilities include:

●     Manage PR, outreach and events. Build and maintain partnerships with associate organizations, civil society and partners for cross promotion of work and engagement.

●     Audio, video, photo and content documentation of the Program

●     Social media content generation, design and engagement building

●     Website management and content creation

●     Strategy building and communication operations

●     Organize offline and online events including sessions, workshops, talks, panels with sector experts for nurturing and building capacities within the sector

●     Communicate programmatic results through launches, campaigns, outreach & public information.

●     Ideate and implement creation, designing and dissemination of communication & outreach material

●     Manage and coordinate with external resources and vendors – photographers, videographers, editors, graphic designers, website agency, PR agency.

●     Brand management

●     Documenting impact of the program through case studies, reports (quarterly/annual) and impact stories.

●     This role will require an average 2-3 days of pre-planned travel every month.

Qualifications

Masters in Communications or allied fields

Experience: 6+ years of work experience in Communications, preferably with non-profits.

Competencies

●     Strong execution ability

●     Strong writing and storytelling skills that nurtures stakeholder engagement

●     Ability to work independently and with cross cultural teams

●     Strong project management skills. Ability to create and maintain strong relationships across geographies, and balance the needs of multiple stakeholders

●     Ability to multi-task, follow up as needed with different stakeholders

●     Strong proficiency in English and Hindi especially in reading and writing

●     Problem solving attitude and ability to multitask.

●     Design Tools (InDesign, Photoshop)/ photography / video editing / writing skills

●     Interest in reading and literature. Interest and knowledge of children’s literature would be an advantage.