Consultant - Communications & Knowledge Management - Disaster Management Project - NGO

Role Overview:

- He/She would be responsible for end-to-end communication and knowledge management for the Disaster Management Project

- Opportunity to create ground breaking communication, awareness campaign programs for a first of its kind DM program in India with a huge scope for innovation, scale and replication potential.

Responsibilities:

- Work closely with the Team leader and client in preparing a communication plan

- Designing and implementing the communications strategy across all interventions of the project in both English and Marathi as per client requirements

- Convert complex information into articles, case studies, blogs, reports, informative creatives, PPTs or any other written content

- Translate the impact of project work into written narratives

- Liaise with project teams to understand the work being done and communicate it via social media platforms to the larger audience

- Travel to district level offices and interact with district teams to collect data, photographs, impact numbers and statistics by meeting and interacting with project stakeholders

- Create and manage external branding and positioning of the project in collaboration with the PR agency of the organisation as and when required

- He/ She should be well versed in identifying end beneficiary/audience pulse, needs and design appropriate promotion and other communications techniques to reach them.

- Overall coordination with the R&R Department for the communication aspects

- Handles the digital, social, and print media for the Department if required

- Conduct /handle / monitor the promotion and outreach programs of the Department

- Responsible for Grievance Redressal and Knowledge Management of the program

- Handle the Public relation activities of the Department including Press Release, Press Conference, media handling

- Monitor and manage all the external communication on behalf of the Department

- Verify and approve all the content related to the Department before publishing it in press or electronic or digital or social media.

- Coordinate with different stakeholder for content generation for articles, reports etc.

- Manage and maintain the core content of the official website and other social media handles.

- Prepare text content, web content, digital media content, participatory governance related polls, surveys for citizens, broadcasting information on behalf of the department

- Help in end to end knowledge management including collecting, compiling, organizing project related information and data and store in proper formats.

Qualifications and Experience Required:

- Post-graduate University Degree in journalism, communication, or related field with minimum of 5 years of experience

- Experience in managing KM and Communication for similar transformation programs,

- Preferred experience in branding, communication, outreach activities related to public services/ social impact and development sector

- Experience/knowledge of website and social media technologies and applications and other communication channels

- Excellent writing skills, and synthesizing research/policy reports for multiple audiences

- Knowledge of Marathi is must.