ASSOCIATE, STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS

Associate, Strategic Communications - Job Description & Application
Location: Dakar, Senegal; Lusaka, Zambia; Manila, Philippines; Nairobi, Kenya; New Delhi, India

IDinsight’s Strategic Communications team seeks an enthusiastic and tenacious full-time Associate/Senior Associate. You will work with the team to amplify IDinsight’s impact and improve the use of data and evidence for decision-making worldwide. The Associate will work with ~40 globally-distributed project teams across diverse sectors to produce external articles, policy briefs, blog posts, and website materials to share their project results and learnings with people across the world.

About IDinsight
IDinsight helps leaders combat poverty worldwide by designing, deploying and promoting evidence-generating tools. We tailor the best methodologies to address our partner’s needs, within their constraints, and work with them to fuse evidence with action. We serve governments, NGOs, foundations and social businesses across Africa and Asia in all major program areas including health, education, agriculture, livelihoods, finance, energy, and governance.

Our approach rests on four pillars:
• Rigorous: We develop and use a wide range of cutting-edge data and evidence tools, including experimental evaluations, monitoring systems, data analytics and visualization, process evaluations, machine learning, and more.
• Cost-effective: Every dollar spent is justified by expected impact. If funds could be better used in another way, we say so.
• Timely: Actionable information is delivered in time for client decision-making deadlines.
• Demand-driven: We deploy solutions tailored to partner contexts and needs with no competing agendas.

Our diverse team of over 130 outstanding colleagues operate in nearly two dozen countries around the world. Learn more at www.IDinsight.org.

About the Strategic Communications Team
Effective communication is one of our best tools for influencing decisions and is one of our best tools for improving lives in the communities where we work. Our Strategic Communications Team amplifies IDinsight’s social impact beyond our direct client work to enhance the use of evidence for decision-making worldwide.
The communications team supports our client-facing teams to compose well-crafted communications strategies and content. Our team shares both critical insights and compelling stories to inform and influence leaders in the sector including governments, philanthropies, policymakers, development practitioners, and research and measurement professionals.
Additionally, the Strategic Communications team is responsible for all communication and advocacy platforms and activities including our website, social media presence, public relations activities, and collateral support. The team works to establish IDinsight as a go-to resource for decision-focused measurement needs in global development. The team also coordinates closely with the Fundraising team to help the organization create content and collateral to engage social sector donors.
Reporting to the Strategic Communications Manager, and working with teammates across country offices, the Strategic Communications Associate will lead and manage a diverse set of efforts:
• Write and edit content: The Associate, with support from the broader Strategic Communications Team, will track, oversee, and guide project teams to write policy briefs, blog posts, project descriptions, and other content. The Associate will work with teams to share lessons with external audiences and develop local and/or global dissemination strategies.
• Manage all communication systems: The Associate will project manage all communication systems that enable our project teams to amplify their work including website pages, blog posts, conference tracking, and external publications.
• Dissemination: The Associate will draft social and traditional media content and facilitate engagement through the appropriate internal and external communications channels: website, public blog, internal blog, newsletters, annual reports, public venues, white papers, traditional media, social media, etc.
• External blog and newsletter management: Work with teams to brainstorm, draft, proofread, upload, and post 3-4 blog posts per month to IDinsight’s external blog, IDeas. Draft and send IDinsight’s monthly newsletter highlighting external publications, conferences, and job openings. Develop and execute strategy to increase the reach of these communications products.
• Create content for special projects: Work with project teams to identify key communications opportunities to collect stories, attend conferences, and/or support workshops to create content that amplifies IDinsight's work.

Is it YOU we’re looking for?
We are building a team that is full of ideas, is intensely service-oriented, and can quickly generate content in a fast-paced environment. Members of the Strategic Communications Team are determined to share IDinsight’s vision to change the world through better social sector decisions with all possible audiences and empower our teammates to do so. Our Strategic Communications Team members have a proven track record and commitment to amplifying IDinsight’s work to transform development practices.
We are currently hiring for an Associate or Senior Associate with 0-4 years of work experience.

Desired qualifications include:
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (e.g., communications, public relations, international relations);
• Work, internship, or extracurricular experience in journalism/communications;
• Passionate about global development and social impact;
• Knowledge of/experience with microeconomics and program evaluation work;
• International experience and familiarity with the global international development / social sector arena, preferably including a period of living a low- or middle-income country;
• Collaborative attitude and commitment to “service before self,” demonstrated ability to work well even with remote team members;
• Ability to work with international, cross-cultural, and diverse teams
• Organized and able to independently project manage tasks and systems;
• Demonstrated ability to operate independently and generatively;
• Strong writing and editing skills;
• Quick learner, able to process a large amount of information and pull out the most important points;
• Self-starter, flexible and proactive; comfort with ambiguity and dynamic/start-up environments and workstreams;
• High level of conscientiousness and attention to detail – finishes work to completion;
• Two year minimum commitment (external candidates).

We welcome you to submit an application and help us build upon IDinsight’s ability to change how the social sector utilizes data and evidence to improve the lives of people around the world.

Nuts and Bolts
Location and compensation will be discussed once we locate the right fit teammates for our role. Compensation will be competitive with comparable social sector roles for the given geography, and commensurate with experience and track record. Start dates are flexible, but with a preference for candidates able to begin as early as September 2020. A two-year commitment is expected. Note: This role would be based out of one of our non-US locations.