Communications Officer

**COMMS OFFICER**
We are looking for a Communications Officer to work from our head office in Dehradun. You will be reporting to the Communications Lead, in tight collaboration with the Communications Coordinator and Officers across all WWS locations.
Your work will focus on executing project-specific communications strategy to meet project objectives. To do so, you will be in constant contact with Communication Officers/POCs and/or Project Managers in Dehradun, Dharamshala, Rishikesh, Uttarkashi, Bir Billing, and Corbett. You will be tasked with producing content for support materials (IECs, social media campaigns, reports, newsletters, etc) in both written and multimedia formats. You should be able to do so in near-flawless English and Hindi as well.

**Duties & Responsibilities**
- Prepare and execute the project-specific communications strategy in collaboration with the Communications Lead and Project Leads, to help meet its strategic objectives.
- Support the role of the Communications Lead in sourcing, collating, and transforming content from project locations and teams.
- Plan and supervise development of culturally-relevant IEC materials such as posters, films, ppts and other communication collaterals by working with freelance designers
- Coordinate with Communication Officers/POCs and/or Project Managers to receive material collected at the various project locations in a raw photo, video, and audio format to produce digital content.
- Collate the material received in coordination with the Communications Lead and Coordinator to produce a content calendar, mapped on WWS events as well as relevant and trending events of national and international importance.
- Plan and execute online and offline campaigns in collaboration with the Social Media Manager and project teams
- Draft/edit important external communication such as monthly project reports
- Support the PR initiatives to engage local and international media to disseminate WWS activities and views.
- Ideate and organize training programs along with the Communications Lead for project teams to improve their communication skills
- Other cognate and related duties may be required from time to time by WWS.

**Job Requirement**
- Have completed a Bachelor’s degree or professional diploma in Languages, including English and/or Hindi ; Journalism or Mass Communications / Media, PR or related fields.
- 3-5 years of experience in behaviour change communications (BCC), Information Education Communication (IEC) campaigns etc, content productions etc.
- Have a deep interest in the broad environmental theme, with an interest to learn more about waste management in India.
- Be proficient in the use of Canva for campaign designs, photo and video editing.
- Have the creative flair and demonstrated writing skills in English and Hindi.
- Stay ahead of trends and conversations that can create engagement and give WWS a louder voice and create content that makes WWS participate in those trends in media, social media etc.
- Be proficient in using and sharing material from Google Drive and Apps (Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms) as well as WeTransfer, DropBox etc.

**Key Skills & Attributes**:

- Access to your own computer is absolutely necessary.
- Great people-skills with the ability to communicate effectively with team members.
- Proven ability to meet deadlines and respect calendars and schedules.
- Proactive, creative and with a problem-solving attitude.
- Able to effectively manage workload and demonstrated capacity to deliver work from any location.
- Hardworking, confident, and diligent.

**Pay Range**
- Base Salary- null 360000 - null 500000/yr