TARU Leading Edge - Senior Consultant - Corporate Communications

Background :

Taru Leading Edge is a development advisory and think tank with trans-disciplinary expertise endeavouring to engage with development sector challenges by offering a commitment to cutting-edge solutions and insights. Incorporated as a private limited company, Taru's mission is to `bridge the Science-Institutions-Society interface with a core agenda of providing transformative solutions to the development challenges. Established in 1996 by eminent development professionals, it caters to a diverse range of bilateral and multi-lateral agencies, government departments, corporations, and other development organizations through research, technology, solution innovations, and implementation support.

For more than two decades, Taru has been working on a range of institutional, financial, economic, social, and technical issues across diverse public systems, cultures, and corporate formations in more than a third of India's rural and urban domains. Taru also works in South Asian and Southeast Asian countries like Afghanistan, Indonesia, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar. The organization is committed to quality, accuracy, and succinctness in its consulting and advisory services. Taru's team of professionals has extensive national and international experience and a strong network of advisors, consultants, partner institutions, and associations from different parts of the world. Taru provides services in development sectoral areas such as Climate Change, Disaster, Urban, Water, Sanitation, CSR, Social Business, Health & Nutrition, Education, Gender, Livelihoods, Social Inclusion, Public policy, Infrastructure Planning, etc.

Taru seeks a dynamic, innovative, self-motivated, and results-oriented professional to support Taru's initiatives in corporate communication, events, and public relations. Taru is therefore considering engaging a Senior Consultant to provide necessary support to its operations.

Job Role and Responsibilities:

Tasks:

The specific tasks to be undertaken are:

- Provide support in developing & implementing communication, events, and public relations plans.

- Development of client, media, and other stakeholder advocacy strategies to communicate relevant messages.

- Lead and support in the development, editing and publishing of the content of strategic corporate communication materials such as annual reports, newsletters, brochures, fliers, promotional emails, factsheets, information packages, media kits, donor kits, company profiles, blogs, etc.

- Support in the external website and intranet website management including content creation and the methods for managing websites.

- Develop and manage content for social media platforms (LinkedIn, Twitter, E-Networks, etc.) suitable for the objective of dissemination and interaction with the stakeholders.

- Support in communication initiatives of the projects, as per requirement

- Support in organizing events and their promotions.

- Support in publications and their promotion

- Support in developing brand/media guidelines and implementing them.

- Support in knowledge management including projects' success stories with customization for dissemination to different media and stakeholders.

- Manage external relations and respond to media, client, and partners' queries.

- Keep up to date with the work of all of the project teams, as well as the organization as a whole, to provide timely information to respective audiences.

- Any other related activities, as assigned.

Qualification:

- Advanced university degree in Development Communications/Corporate Communication or related fields from reputed institutes

- At least 4-5 years of experience in the communication and knowledge field with national and international development organizations including media/social media communications groups.

- Excellent fluency in English (both written and spoken!) especially in writing needed for documentation and knowledge/content creation within the development domain (examples of published works). Able to communicate and present clearly and sensitively with internal and external stakeholders.

- Ability to conceptualize, innovate; and execute ideas, plans and strategies.

- Excellent computer literacy and ability to effectively use office technology and IT/mobile tools.

- Excellent interpersonal and networking skills, solid judgment/decision-making skills, creativity, and media/graphic/visual design sense.

- High personal & professional integrity. Team player and ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines. Problem-solving attitude. Experience in managing teams and logistics.

Location : New Delhi/Mumbai

CTC : Attractive. The remuneration shall not be a constraint for the deserving candidate.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for the interview.