Communications Associate

About UMEED

UMEED has been working with women from low-income communities of Hyderabad since 2014. With our strong ground level experience, we have developed a deep understanding to create sustainable interventions for empowering women. One of our interventions, FirstLeap aims to increase the economic participation of women by helping them become job ready and placing them in entry level jobs. By means of our 3-bucket focus on skill building, mindset development and access to exposure, we aim to build the spirit of ‘Voice, Choice and Agency’ in women who will not only be empowered to take charge of their own lives, but will also become proactive catalysts of a sustainable continuation of these values to their communities.

About the Role

The Communications Associate is a strong flagbearer of gender equality. She/he must be self- motivated, possesses a can-do attitude, an unwavering belief that powerful stories can change behaviour and enjoys building lasting relationships with people and organisations in the sector.

Key Responsibilities

• Co-Lead the design and execution of communications strategy

• Lead the creation of innovative and inspiring collaterals

• Leverage multiple online and offline media platforms through powerful storytelling

• Prepare impact reports, develop marketing material and outreach tools to share program’s progress with stakeholders

• Monitor media platform performance metrics to evaluate effectiveness of communications

• Build strategic partnerships consisting of various organizations, local and national media houses

• Ensure compliance to the systems and the training processes of Umeed including logistics management, documentation and reporting and participation in internal trainings organized

• Monitor and report progress towards your goals and problem solve as needed You’ll be a good fit if you

• Have knowledge and are passionate about gender inequality and its impact on Indian communities.

• Have knowledge of the social sector/Skilling landscape in the country

• Strong English, Hindi and Telugu communication and presentation skills

• Demonstrated ability to use media platforms effectively to deliver content

• Understanding of current trends in digital and social media

• Knowledge of softwares like Adobe Suite, Photoshop, Canva is preferred

• Have Bachelor’s or Master's degree (in Communications/ Branding. Social work/ Management/Development/Women’s Studies desirable, but not essential)

• Minimum 1 years of work experience in a Communications role across skilling/facilitation/livelihood generation in non-profits is preferred

What’s in it for you

• Steep learning curve with opportunities to interact with various leaders in social sectorspace.

• You can own your growth trajectory, explore different roles within the organization.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: ₹250,000.00 - ₹300,000.00 per year

Experience:

• total work: 1 year (Preferred)

Expected Start Date: 01/07/2022