Job Opportunity for Dissemination and Communication Consultant at ISDM in Noida

Position: Dissemination and Communication Consultant

Location: Noida

Reports to: Associate Director – Dissemination

About ISDM

ISDM got seeded as an idea in early 2016 when its founders came together with a common vision to launch a first-of-its-kind educational institution that would develop and groom the next generation of professional leaders and managers for the development sector. ISDM envisions building Development Management (or Management for the Social Sectors) as a stand-alone domain and an aspirational choice for professionals in the development sector. The belief is that Development Management will significantly scale up the positive impacts on the lives of people in sustained ways.

By 2025, ISDM aims to become the go-to management institute for top professionals wanting to transform the development sector for greater impact on people’s lives.

In order to achieve this aim, ISDM has identified three broad focus areas

• Continuously building the one-year long Post Graduate Program in Development Management (PGP-DM)
• Creating a strong research function that will lay the foundations for Development Management and leadership as a unique domain and discipline
• Launching Strategic Capacity Building Programs aimed at influencing and up- skilling middle to senior leaders in the social sector through special workshops, short-term courses, and customized convening
• ISDM has audacious ambitions to build a world class institution, become a global fountainhead of development management knowledge, and define the domain of development management for the Social Sectors. ISDM is entering a new phase of growth with a revamped program and renewed focus on establishing itself firmly as a preeminent institution in its domain. This requires strategic and energetic institutional leadership.

Key Attributes

• Excellent written communication and copy writing skills – long form communication abilities
• Ability to visualise, formulate and write contents for external communications including newsletters, reports, direct mailers, presentations
• Knowledge of stakeholder groups and messaging for external communications
• Ability to co-strategise and implement events and contents for external communications requirements of the organisation
• Knowledge of media coordination and PR for organisational needs
• Self-motivated and ability to deliver assignments individually as well as with teams
• Experience with creating high quality, short-form audio-visual content
• Ability to coordinate aspects of assignment with different stakeholders and vendors as required
• An exceptional attention to detail
• A working knowledge of key social media platforms
• Keenness to work in a start-up environment
• Proven experience of working in complex projects involving multiple stakeholders, partners etc
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership, have accountability and work in a collaborative, closely-knit, multi-disciplinary team
• Strong problem-solving skills

Key responsibilities

• Work with all the teams to understand and map out their communication needs
• Create and manage an annual road map and calendar of communication needs & collaterals
• Construct effective, well designed, high impact communication collaterals, using existing material or creating new material, across both physical and digital channels
• Create a range of collaterals from annual reports, powerpoints, brochures, (e-)flyers, invites, e-mailers, social media creatives, creatives for webinars
• Track, monitor, and help improve the performance of all communication collaterals
• Coordinate with vendors on other tactical communication requirements and manage vendor relations

Educational Qualifications and Experience required

• Experience in writing, strategising and editing content for different domains for 5+ years
• Qualifications in Journalism, Social Science, Languages and allied fields

Remuneration shall be commensurate with experience and qualifications.

ISDM is an equal opportunity organisation with a particular emphasis on affirmative action. The culture of the organisation is one of professionalism while also one that greatly values relationships.