Name of Organisation: Development Alternatives

Position: Senior Manager- Communications & Content

Domain: Corporate Management Domain - Corporate Communications

Qualification: Master's Degree in Communications, Journalism or other related fields.

Experience: 5 - 8 years experience, preferably in development sector

Location: New Delhi (HQ)

No. of Positions: 01

Job Type  –  Regular / Contractual

Development Alternatives is looking for a Storyteller with a passion for People, Planet & Prosperity                                               

We are looking for a communication whiz. A live wire. One who loves tech and new media.Who loves words and can spin a story with speed and clarity. The person should have experience of managing midsize teams. Good understanding of communication strategies / Brand positioning / Media universe and all that goes into making a narrative for the Corporate Communication and Fundraising team of an organisation like DA.

Job Description:

Strategic Planning and Implementation:

• Key role in implementing and planning of effective communication strategy that build brand awareness.
• Ensuring the team members remain abreast with latest tools and techniques related to communication and digital media

Communication Campaigns:

• Conceptualize campaigns, develop scripts/briefs for creative material

Content creation

• Storytelling and developing simple and clear messages/stories.
• Oversee content development, audience and stakeholder engagement, creative development, key messages, brand promotion.
• Maintain social media profiles and quality content across all platforms to support and expand our digital presence. As the content manager of social media she/he should be savvy on designing, writing and posting of social media posts on a daily basis 24x7.  Should also have a good understanding of digital media analytics.
• Understanding of designing and printing software and technology is a necessity.
• Be able to write for Newsletter and capable of doing website updating.

DESIRABLE QUALITIES:                                

• Self- motivated and driven, with a keen interest in learning new concepts.
• Strong communications skills in English and Hindi, good editing skills, and ability to tailor communication materials for different audiences.
• Sound understanding of development sector.
• Strong knowledge of Communications, branding, media, digital tools, techniques, data analysis, reporting tools.
• An eye for detail and precision.
• Problem-solving and analytical capabilities.
• She/he should have the ability to visualize, plan and execute various communication deliverable in a timely manner.
• Have the ability to interact within a matrix organisation across different levels to source stories.

Name of Organisation: Development Alternatives

Position: Deputy Manager - Communications

Qualification: Master's in Communication / Development Communication

Domain: SED

Location: New Delhi (HQ)

No. of Positions: 01

Experience: 1 - 3 years, preferably in development sector

Job description:

Development Alternatives Group has been promoting ‘inclusive entrepreneurship’ a phenomenon that is characterized by systemic change that enables under-represented groups such as youth and women to access entrepreneurship opportunities, thereby leading to social inclusion, quality employment, and sustainable economic growth. In the pursuit of the above, our programs leverage social innovation tools to unleash entrepreneurial energies in women & youth and build positive ecosystems. Our approaches in flagship projects such as Work4Progress have been recognised as best practices by the United Nations Development Programme and the World Bank for entrepreneurship led job creation. It has also been featured as a UN SDG good practice. In order to understand such deep and systemic changes, we have developed a learning system that is based on the principles and techniques of dialogue, analysis and reflection. The learning system in essence is geared to reiterate social innovation and ground-up action for enterprise development and job creation in rural India.

We are looking for a professional who will be able to convert the learning and insights into effective communication content for dissemination of knowledge and positioning.

Key responsibilities for the candidate are listed below:

Communications & Knowledge:

• Influencing knowledge through effective communications with the help of articles, case studies, reports, workshops, and webinars on entrepreneurship at the grassroots.
• Develop strategy and content for social media driven by analytical insights.
• Developing knowledge in the form of toolkits, brochures among others.
• Streamlining tone and messaging across communication products such as newsletters, brochures, videos, and other relevant publications.

Positioning:

• Support collaborative initiatives with partners and potential leads to position our work on Inclusive Entrepreneurship.
• Strategising content to showcase developments in Inclusive Entrepreneurship particularly on LinkedIn
• Implementation of digital communication and advocacy efforts, across social media and news platforms

DESIRABLE QUALITIES:

• Canva, Photoshop, etc.
• Digital marketing, SEO analytics
• Excellent communication and documentation skills
• Ready to travel in rural India for at least 7-9 days a month
• Experience in developing social media content

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Name of Organisation: Development Alternatives

Position: Senior Manager - Women Entrepreneurship

Qualification: Post Graduate - Developmental Studies / Rural Management / Social Science / Development Communication / Economics

Domain: SED

Location: New Delhi (HQ)

No. of Positions: 01

Experience: 7⁺ years

Job description:

Development Alternatives Group has been promoting ‘inclusive entrepreneurship’ a phenomenon that is characterized by systemic change that enables under-represented groups such as youth and women to access entrepreneurship opportunities, thereby leading to social inclusion, quality employment, and sustainable economic growth. In the pursuit of the above, our programs leverage social innovation tools to unleash entrepreneurial energies in women & youth and build positive ecosystems.

Our approaches in flagship projects such as Work4Progress have been recognised as best practices by the United Nations Development Programme and the World Bank for entrepreneurship led job creation. It has also been featured as a UN SDG good practice.

Our mission is to promote ‘inclusive entrepreneurship’, a phenomenon that is characterized by systemic change that enables under-represented groups such as youth and women to access entrepreneurship opportunities, thereby leading to social inclusion, quality employment, and sustainable economic growth. In the pursuit of the above, our multi-stakeholder programs leverage social innovation tools to unleash entrepreneurial energies in women & youth and build positive ecosystems.

We are currently looking for Senior Manager who will be responsible for conceptualizing and formulating strategic initiatives and projects that further the vision and mission. The Senior Manager will be responsible for leading the women entrepreneurship program area, where they will be specifically involved in the following deliverables:

Project and operations management with partners

• Design program delivery mechanisms and support communication to the client.
• Communication and coordination with field activities for ensuring smooth delivery.

Innovation of tools, process for delivery of enterprise support and prototypes

• Build new tools and processes, specifically those that improve enterprise support services and building the entrepreneurial ecosystem for women.
• Support the co-creation of new prototypes that enable shaping of the ecosystem at the district level and build convergence with existing infrastructure including local institutions.
• Enhance women driven enterprise support services.
• Collaborating initiatives with partners.

Strengthen and scale existing prototypes

• Support and enhance existing systemic prototypes that build women entrepreneurship like micro credit facility, brave spaces.
• Documentation of the learning to shape strategy for taking the prototypes forward including system mapping.
• Support conceptualization of scale out strategy of the systemic and enterprise prototypes.

Knowledge development and transference

• Package the processes, knowledge and learning in forms of process manuals, toolkits, technical reports and narratives for external transference
• Be responsible for secondary and field research, developing new social innovation methods and incorporate learning into knowledge products and Communication

DESIRABLE QUALITIES:

• Strategic thinker with problem solving skills to help drive the social Innovation based activities and objectives.
• Good understanding of social diversity.
• Excellent Communication skills required (both written and verbal).
• Experience in high quality research and working in the Livelihoods/enterprise and development field.

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Name of Organisation: Development Alternatives

Position: Senior Manager - Inclusive Entrepreneurship

Qualification: Master's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Economics or Development Studies would be a plus.

Domain: SED

Location: Bundelkhand (Jhansi)

No. of Positions: 01

Experience: 5 - 8 years, preferably in development sector or private organisation sector

Job description:

Development Alternatives Group has been promoting ‘inclusive entrepreneurship’ a phenomenon that is characterized by systemic change that enables under-represented groups such as youth and women to access entrepreneurship opportunities, thereby leading to social inclusion, quality employment, and sustainable economic growth. In the pursuit of the above, our programs leverage social innovation tools to unleash entrepreneurial energies in women & youth and build positive ecosystems.

Our approaches in flagship projects such as Work 4 Progress have been recognised as best practices by the United Nations Development Programme and the World Bank for entrepreneurship led job creation. It has also been featured as a UN SDG good practice.

The main tasks to be performed by the candidate would be as under:

• Development and implementation of innovative models and tools for enabling access to credit, marketing and training for micro entrepreneurs.

• Documentation of implementation, observations and case studies for reporting

• Track progress of the models and develop potential linkages with the larger ecosystem

• Capturing learnings and data from ground and create analytical reports for communication and knowledge products

• Maintenance (accelerated data collection, validation and tracking new metrics) of dashboards for enterprise development programs

• Will be responsible for directly working with field team and entrepreneurs to provide enterprise support services

DESIRABLE QUALITIES:

• This project is based on women empowerment and hence, canditates with a keen desire to work closely with rural women communitites are encouraged to apply.
• Self-starter, practical, creative and problem solver.
• Excellent communication skills required.
• Strong orientation towards analysis of quantitative data and developing analysis for external communication.
• Able to travel in rural India for at least 10 days a month (once travel is safer).

REMUNERATION: As per organization’s salary disbursement structure and commensurate with qualifications and experience of the candidate.

Name of Organisation: Development Alternatives

Position: Senior Manager,udyaME platform (for our social enterprise IMEDF)

Qualification: PGDM or an equivalent degree/diploma in Business Management /

                         Marketing or UI/UX

                         Product marketing competencies for website and app would be a 

                        plus.

Domain: IMEDF

Location: New Delhi (HQ)

No. of Positions: 01

Experience: Preferably 4 - 6 years of relevant experience in a development sector or private sector organization.

Job description:

In order to support micro-entrepreneurs, the Development Alternatives Group has established the Indian Micro Enterprises Development Foundation (IMEDF) as the Special Purpose Vehicle. IMEDF strives for unleashing entrepreneurship through retail and digital platforms under udyaME brand. IMEDF is also the nodal agency for the Ministry of MSME’s SFURTI scheme.

With the booming tech based solutions in different sectors, and concurrent penetration of internet in rural India, it is evident that grassroots problems can be addressed using tech platforms. The udyaME platform (udyame.in) is a mobile app as well as a website to unleash micro-entrepreneurship by catering to all unmet demands of the entrepreneur under one umbrella. Aligned to Development Alternatives’ larger vision of creating rural prosperity, udyaME envisions to take the first movers advantage into the untapped and underserved market comprising of 63 million micro enterprises across the nation. This role involves supporting micro enterprises through udyaME platform. Responsibilities are as under:

• Understand the rural micro-entrepreneur's needs and align the product roadmap to those needs.
• Anchor the roll-out of marketing and sales strategy for enterprise support services products and network development of ‘udyaME' digital platform.
• Build partnerships with stakeholders and strengthen the ‘udyaME’ brand.
• Own and drive the business numbers of products.
• Formulate and deploy business transformational strategies to increase performance, profitability & business growth.

DESIRABLE QUALITIES:

• Ground understanding of rural micro-entrepreneurship.
• Demonstrated experience to understand and drive sales initiatives to grow customers, revenue and accelerate growth in delivery of products and services.
• Experience in selling digital products that impact the triple bottom line.
• User centric approach with prior ground and corporate client facing experience.
• Good communication skills.
• Practical, committed and problem solving approach.
• Basic knowledge of web development is a plus
• Able to travel in rural India for at least 10 days a month depending on the pandemic restrictions.

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