Project Communications Associate

**Manager
- Energy (Research)**

**Who we are and what we do?**

World Resources Institute (WRI) is an independent, non-profit global research organization that turns big ideas into action at the nexus of environment, economic opportunity and human well-being. Our work focuses on building sustainable and livable cities and working towards a low carbon economy. Through research, analysis, and recommendations, World Resources Institute puts ideas into action to build transformative solutions to protect the earth, promote livelihoods, and enhance human well-being.

WRI India has the capacity to convene key stakeholders, and forge strategic partnerships with governments, business, foundations, civil society organizations, institutes and NGOs, to scale-up solutions that can bring game-changing results for the sustainable management of natural resources in India.

**Program Overview for Energy**

The objective of the WRI India energy program is to inform and guide India’s transition to cleaner energy. The program focuses on three inter-related aspects of this energy transition: enhancing energy access, scaling renewables among specific consumer categories, and achieving higher levels of energy and buildings efficiency. Our energy access work is specifically aimed at ensuring access to affordable and clean energy so as to improve socio-economic development in rural and remote regions of India. Through strong research, ground-level implementation experience, partnerships with key stakeholders and communicating our work, we seek to achieve impact at scale.

**About your role**:
World Resources Institute India seeks a Communications Associate to lead one of its flagship projects over the next three years - the Energy Transition Preparedness Initiative (ETPI). This initiative seeks to understand the preparedness of Indian states in transitioning to a cleaner energy future in the coming decade. ETPI is a consortium of WRI India, PEG and CPR, which will undertake detailed analysis of states, write case studies of best practices in energy transition preparedness at the state level, and to highlight them at the national and global levels as examples that could be emulated. Multiple research products and case studies are expected to be produced over the next three years, which would require extensive communications support.

If you are a communications professional with a passion to tell stories linking energy to climate at the sub-national and national level, then this is the job for you. The Communications Associate will be responsible for crafting effective and impactful communications strategies at the national, state, and city levels on the research that would be developed by the consortium. The Associate will work closely with all three consortium partners in developing a brand identity and generating high recall value on social and traditional media for this initiative, in consultation with, and guidance from WRI India energy program’s communications team. The Associate would be expected to oversee the creation of a website for the Initiative, raise Requests for Proposals, identify and work with external vendors, and work with the consortium in designing the site, and other communication collaterals. This would include drafting and editing blogs, social media posts, op-eds, and newsletters, create interactive tools and infographics, oversee publication production processes, provide support to audio-visual outreach activities, and assist in managing events and webinars and provide support towards website maintenance.

While most of the Associate’s time would go towards the ETPI initiative, and the remaining would be to provide communications and outreach support for WRI India’s Energy Program

**How your day will unfold**:

- Work with WRI India Energy Program’s communications team and with the consortium’s research experts to conceptualize and design a brand identity for ETPI
- Oversee execution of communications processes for publications and research products, adhering to the guidelines set by the consortium.
- In consultation with the program’s communications team conceptualize an effective regional media outreach strategy in the states that ETPI would conduct its case studies.
- Work with vendors to design the website for ETPI. Update and maintain the website with new research products, and communications and outreach materials.
- On-ground support for ETPI related events and workshops, coordinating with local vendors and WRI’s logístical support
- Documentation and management of ETPI’s outreach activities, engagements, stakeholders lists and knowledge products
- Travel to key project sites based on project needs
- Writing scope of works, monitoring contracts and supervise Audio-Visual outreach activities.
- Perform quality checks on all new and revised content for websites and social media.
- Provide writing, editing and proof-reading support
- Help team members write blogs and proof/edit to