About NalandaWay Foundation
NalandaWay Foundation is a 20-year-old, award-winning non-profit that uses the arts to empower children and adolescents from disadvantaged communities by strengthening their resilience, agency, and emotional well-being.
Over the last two decades, we have reached 10 million children across 10 states in India including Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Telangana, Maharashtra, Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi NCR, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Kerala, and Jharkhand by creating safe learning spaces and experiences that nurture curiosity, creativity, and compassion. Working in partnership with governments and local communities, we have integrated arts and well-being initiatives into government-run schools, Child Care Institutions (CCIs), urban slums, and Anganwadi Centres, ensuring our impact spans both bustling cities and remote villages.
Your key responsibilities involve
- Working closely with our project teams across locations in preparing monthly, quarterly, annual, and ad-hoc reports, newsletters, and videos for our donors and government departments
- Preparing crisp, impactful decks for donor meetings, investor pitches
- Visit schools, government departments, donor offices, and other project sites as needed, on an ongoing basis, to interact with stakeholders and beneficiaries directly and capture inputs for documentation.
- Capture learnings from program implementation and success stories and continuously present them to internal and external stakeholders.
- Supporting in writing research reports/ papers for submissions to national and international journals/ publications
- Work closely with the project teams in preparing Research and Impact/Monitoring & Evaluation reports as needed
- Developing reports, presentations, case studies, success stories, and other required documentation for internal and external audits.
- Hosting capacity-building sessions for other project teams.
- Creation of templates to streamline comms processes across the org.
- Identify and work with social media influencers to expand NalandaWay's reach.
- Work with designers/photographers/video/storytellers (internal and external) to create outputs.
- Analyse and report the target audience's social media activity, interaction, and growth
- Be the primary liaison with reporters, managing incoming media inquiries and pitching stories and writing and reviewing communication materials (op-eds, press releases, policy statements, talking points, and speeches).
- Represent NalandaWay's work and impact on the media and external stakeholders.
- Service design requests from all verticals and project teams
- Analysis and presentation of communication metrics
- Support project teams in organising and managing program documentation such as documents, photos, videos, newsletters, and reports on various recording mediums such as Google Drive, internal project, and document management systems
- Prepare press releases, documentation, collaterals, presentations, videos and other materials as needed for the leadership and project teams.
- Provide hands-on leadership to the communications team and create a culture of ownership.
- Collaborate extensively with other managers and leads across the organisation in cross-learning of ideas, knowledge and best practices.
- Support the creation of messaging and branding by leveraging a mix of print and digital campaigns, including SEO/SEM, marketing database, email, PR, and thought leadership, to advocate for NalandaWay's work.
General:
Relationship Management: Establish tie-ups with media and maintain positive working relationships with all internal and external stakeholders
Problem-Solving: Proactively identify problematic situations and work with your reporting Manager to resolve them.
Self-Development
- Spend a significant amount of time in the field to develop a nuanced understanding of NalandaWay's different projects.
- Improve decision-making skills, adapt to situations quickly amid uncertainties and ambiguities and recalibrate plans to realise the outcomes.
- Develop analytical abilities, team building, and motivation skills to help organise resources, work under tight deadlines, be meticulous and highly detail-oriented
- Develop a deep understanding of the domain and keep abreast of news, developments, and initiatives in the social, Education, and Development sectors.
Qualifications
- Master's degree or equivalent experience in Marketing or Communication
- 4 - 5 years relevant work experience
- Strong written and oral skills
- Experienced leader and collaborator
