15 Oct
WomenLift Health
New Delhi
Position Title: Senior Communications Manager India
Location: India
Type: Hybrid with travel to inperson meetings and events
Reports to: India Hub Director
Hours per week (average): 40 (full time)
Our Vision and Mission WomenLift Health envisions a world where diverse accomplished leaders collectively transform health outcomes. To realize that vision we seek to expand the power and influence of talented midcareer women in health and engage with senior institutional and societal leaders to catalyze systemic change for gender equality in health leadership. We work in East Africa India Nigeria North America Southern Africa and continue to explore outreach to other regions.
Our Work Established in 2019 we work to advance equality in health leadership through a range of actions at the individual institutional and societal levels. This includes Leadership Journeys which focus on equipping midcareer women with tools along with peer mentor and coach support to successfully use their voice expertise and leadership for impact. It includes pushing conversations and partnerships with senior leaders in health institutions taking steps to prioritize gender equality. It also includes supporting/ convening global conversations about the importance of womens leadership amplifying the voices of national and global health leaders including at the biannual WomenLift Health Conference.
Our Culture and Values
- We are building a diverse entrepreneurial team of people who bring unique cultural and technical perspectives and experiences. We welcome resultsoriented problemsolvers of any nationality race gender sexual orientation age and disability.
We are a growing organization that is committed to building a culture with our partners that values:
- Collaborative leadership that celebrates diverse perspectives and experiences and ensures everyone contributes to their full potential.
- Partnership grounded in humility respect empathy and inclusion.
- Transformative change based upon bold strategic thinking combined with adaptability and pragmatic action.
- Spirit of learning ensures we are open forwardlooking constructive and committed to growing collectively and individually.
- Achieving impact by improving global health and gender equality
Position Summary
WomenLift Health is seeking an experienced innovative and dynamic India Communications Senior Manager to work under the direction of the India Director and in close collaboration with their counterparts in India team communications teams in India and other countries around the globe. The India Communications Senior Manager will play an important role in implementing WomenLift Healths communications strategy and will provide support in content creation stakeholder management and managing the overall communications portfolio for WomenLift Health in India.
This position will require highlevel strategic thinking and strong program management skills to ensure planning and effective implementation. The incumbent must be a selfstarter and selfdriven learner; relish cocreating with a team; and demonstrate excellent project management and oral and written communication skills. They must possess a keen eye for detail planning and organization.
The ideal candidate should be able to toggle adeptly between working independently and in a team and exercise clear judgment when delineating issues that can be managed independently versus those that should be escalated to supervisors. Keen observation emotional intelligence astute judgment and proficient management skills are critical to success in this position.
This recruitment is for 1 fulltime (100% FTE) position and will report to the India Director
Responsibilities and Tasks
Create and execute an integrated communications strategy for WomenLift Health across platforms that supports Indias objectives and drives engagement with key audiences in India.
- Provide communications support to WomenLift Healths core programs including generating demand and planning application launches for WomenLift Healths signature Leadership Journey PowerUp workshops and so on.
- Lead the writing production design and distribution of a wide variety of publications and collateral materials including opinion articles reports press releases newsletters presentations podcasts statements and other ecommunications.
- Support WomenLift Healths internal communications including preparing PowerPoint presentations creating checklists and process documentation and publishing guidelines.
- Manage media relations for WomenLift Health in India
- Translate complex health leadership and science jargon to actionable communication outputs for a diverse pool of audiences and stakeholders.
- Support in the organisations story telling agenda in Indian context.
- Identify and facilitate new content opportunities exploring ways to repurpose existing content in the WomenLift Health repository to position the brands thought leadership.
- Generate fresh creative ideas for initiatives and campaigns across channels and work with cross regional teams and agency to execute on them.
- Drive participation in WomenLift Healthhosted events through creative content and promotional strategies in India.
- Manage consultants agencies etc. as well as video content producers and assign prioritized content projects.
Support relationship with external groups through personalised meetings and outreach especially with the press and influential media and social media partners both at national and state levels.
- Bring a strong data analytics capability and Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (MEL) commitment to the work to help inform and adjust the strategy as needed.
- Set short and longterm goals and measure effectiveness of the content on a monthly quarterly and yearly basis.
- Identify opportunities for WomenLift Health at important events related to gender equality and health in India.
Education and Experience (Required)
- Masters degree in Communications Media Journalism Public Policy Public Health Science & Technology or related field.
- This position requires at least 10 years of relevant work experience with at least 3 years of independent portfolio management.
Experience working in communications for nonprofit gender womens leadership global health media academic or research organizations is desirable
- Experience with a diverse set of stakeholders and liaising with external agencies and vendors; a proven track record of managing deadlines; and an aptitude for multimedia content production
- Proven experience in executing communications strategies
- Ability to think analytically and strategically and work under tight deadlines
- Proven leadership and experience managing and building a team
Knowledge skills and abilities (Required)
- Communication skills: Detailoriented with excellent writing copyediting and interpersonal skills. Deep understanding of the key principles of communicating messages in ways that nontechnical audiences can understand. The incumbent needs to be precise clear and creative
- Organization: Excellent strategic thinking and ability to handle multiple projects at once meet deadlines and effectively manage time. Is able to bring consistently high levels of thoroughness and initiative to all projects undertaken
- Demonstrated success in following through and successfully completing projects in a timely manner
- Interpersonal skills: Proven ability to collaborate and cocreate with international teams and with clients and external stakeholders
- Experience in working with diverse stakeholders from different sectors cultures religions and disciplines
- Depth of experience maturity confidence ability to learn and adapt and give and receive feedback
- Ability to take initiative and ownership of projects
- Ability to routinely and independently exercise sound judgment with minimal supervision
- Experience with web content management systems
- Familiarity with content creation tools (Adobe suite Canva etc.)
- Experience with analytics software Google Analytics or Adobe Analytics as well as social media platform reporting
- Ability to exercise cultural competency and work respectfully with a diverse team across varied cultures geographies and time zones
HOW TO APPLY
Hiring Information
To apply submit a resume and cover letter through the Please see career page of WomenLift Health. Please also include 3 professional references and your desired annual salary in INR.
Hiring Statement
We are looking for talent that is passionate selfdriven flexible able to multitask and thrive in a fastpaced demanding environment that shows strong initiative and ability to proactively manage assigned project deliverables with minimal supervision.
The talent will be hired through either GFS Consulting Private Limited (India) for WomenLift Health. Global Finance Strategies (GFS) founded in 2012 is a subsidiary of Global Health Strategies (GHS) which has been providing expert consulting services to clients working in international health and development for nearly 15 years. GFS has offices in New York New Delhi Rio de Janeiro Beijing Nairobi and Johannesburg and supports work in diverse countries in Africa Asia the Middle East Europe and the Americas.
GFS is an equal opportunity employer and encourages people of diverse backgrounds to apply.
▶️ Senior Communications Manager India
🖊️ WomenLift Health
📍 New Delhi