Communications & Public Engagement Lead
- Company
National Foundation for India
- Location
New Delhi
- Employment Type
Full-Time
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Functional Category
Communications & Marketing
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Experience
12 - 15 years
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Salary
1300000 - 1500000
- Application Deadline
10-Jun-2025
About National Foundation for India
National Foundation for India (NFI) is a nonprofit organisation founded in 1992. Over the past 30 years, NFI has worked in 24 states across India with over 100 partners to build a plural, equitable and democratic society by promoting social justice philanthropy. The organisation has focused on mobilising resources for grassroot organisations to build capacity and strenghten resilience of marginalised and rural communities.
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Overview of the Role
Communications and Public Engagements (C&PE) Lead will serve as a key member of the leadership team, responsible for developing and managing all communications and public engagement programmes to enhance and demonstrate the brand of NFI. The role will also have the primary responsibility for managing the Communications and Public Engagements team, delivering the plans and commitments of NFI. Along with working with the partner organisations (CSOs) supported by NFI across regions, for addressing their communication needs and building their capacities.
Job Description
- Manage the Communications and Public Engagement team.
- Building the brand for NFI through all communications products and public engagement across a variety of stakeholders.
- Develop and manage high level communications and engagement programmes to enhance and demonstrate the brand of NFI.
- End to end execution of event, projects and campaigns, including building digital strategy in various media and analysis of impact execution of Social Media Marketing, Email campaigns, increase in applications on a regular basis.
- Actively drive NFI’s website(s) strategy, design and development, website maintenance including value ads like database management & community building. Ensure keyword optimization to increase website traffic.
- Continuously monitoring the communication landscape, both internally and externally, to ensure the organization stays ahead of the curve in terms of communication trends and best practices. Track and analyse communication metrics to measure the effectiveness of communication efforts.
- Supervise, train and mentor team members, NFI staff and partners to accelerate and optimise the communication and public engagement functions.
- Support the Executive Director and the Programme Director in the strategic and operational planning, implementation, evaluation, continuous improvement and budgeting for NFI’s core communications strategy and functions.
- Any other task assigned by the Program Director.
Required & Preferred Qualifications
Skill
- Commitment towards organisation mission and values.
- Strategic thinker with an eye for operational detail.
- Empathetic leader and team builder.
- Adaptable and solutions oriented.
- Strong writing, verbal and editing skills, with experience creating content for various mediums. Experience managing websites and social media channels.
- Strong commitment to social justice, constitutional values and gender justice.
- Strong understanding of new media ecosystem, digital marketing/campaigns/production of documents, reports for internal and external circulation.
Education
Graduate/Post Graduate in the relevant field
Experience
- Proven experience of minimum 12-15 years, in campaigning and online community management, including people management skills. - Experience in social media and multi-media content development and supervision with knowledge of various tools and platforms, including those used for fund raising and resource mobilisation (such as Adobe Creative Suite, Canva, Mailchimp and Hootsuite, etc.).
Company Policies
Leave Policies
Parental Leave
Learning & Development
Upskilling