About your role:
You will work closely with WRI India s Integrated Transport team. You will chiefly focus on coordinating with a range of internal and external parties to organize events along with creating associated communication products.
How your day will unfold:
- Event and Vendor Coordination (60%)
- Manage logistics for organizing events, consultations, and workshops.
- Onboard external vendors, ensure timely contracting and payment dissemination through internal coordination with respective teams.
- Support/create collaterals needed for the execution of offline and online events, including invites, agendas, backdrops, standees, etc.
- Work with external vendors to ensure all outreach meets WRI India quality guidelines.
- Actively support outreach activities with key stakeholders, leveraging strong interpersonal skills.
- Maintain and update event checklists and trackers as needed and document all post-event material and outreach methodically.
- Website & Social Media (20%)
- Manage the workflow of specific communication deliverables and sustain conducive working relationships with project partners, vendors, and donors.
- Ensure quality checks for website and social media content.
- Develop simple infographics/visuals to disseminate our research findings/project milestones in an engaging format. Knowledge of visual communication tools (such as Canva, Premiere Pro) is a plus.
- Facilitate digital outreach with webinars and podcasts in collaboration with project partners.
- Technical Responsibilities (10%)
- Support researchers/writers in developing and disseminating knowledge products.
- Help develop content for research reports, proposals, and other materials.
- Ensure all WRI India shared content is accurate, factual, and legally sound, while maintaining branding and style guidelines.
- Identify key messages, package stories, and develop tailored dissemination strategies.
Qualifications and Requirements we seek:
- Minimum 5 years of full-time experience working as:
- Media communicator in the development sector
- Experience dealing with a wide variety of stakeholders and vendors.
- Knowledge of public transport landscape in India will be preferred.
- Excellent writing and editing skills in English.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Ability to build and maintain productive relationships internally and externally.
- Capability to communicate complex ideas in everyday language.
- Ability to self-manage and meet deadlines, manage multiple project deadlines.
- Enthusiasm, flexibility, technical curiosity, and willingness to learn.
- Understanding of how events are organized and basic troubleshooting.
- Basic familiarity with design software (Photoshop, InDesign, Canva or other AV/ animation software) is an added benefit.
