Call for applications: Marketing Communications Associate

About Societal Platform (EkStep Foundation)

Traditional ways of solving social problems are linear and resource-intensive. When problems multiply exponentially, scaling becomes difficult. We need bold ways to challenge the status quo and solve for 3 billion under-served people. We call such endeavors Societal Platforms.

Societal Platforms are manifestations of Societal Thinking, a systemic approach, a set of values and specific design principles, to reimagine social problems, redesign core interactions between key actors of society and induce exponential social change.

We work to enable Impact @ Scale in Education, Health, Livelihood, Equity and Climate.

Responsibilities:

Build and execute a social media strategy
Define PR/external media communications strategy and build the pipeline for publishing articles
Coordinate external and internal communications flow to distribute our content
Build a community of influencers who re-share, remix our work on social media, academic courses etc.
Collaborate with the team to write content (blogs, articles, etc.)
Web/Blog/Social Media Traffic Analysis

Skills:

Previous work experience in marketing, communications and public relations.
Excellent communicator with a passion for community building.
Experience working across a variety of communication channels (social media channels/newsletters/Linkedin groups etc.) and creating distinct strategies for different channels.
Understanding of SEO, Social Media tools, Analytics tools etc.
Interest and understanding in any of our focus domains (Education, Health, Livelihood, Equity and Climate) would be an added advantage.
Experience working in the social sector would be a plus.

Desired qualification: