Deadline: 30 December 2015
World Resources Institute (WRI) is currently seeking applications from the eligible applicants for the post of Digital Communications Associate in Bangalore, India.
The Digital Communications Associate will be responsible for maintaining content for WRI India web and digital assets, telling the story of WRI India across a variety of digital mediums including WRI India’s web properties, and social media asset including Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
WRI India’s mission is to move human society to live in ways that protect Earth’s environment and its capacity to provide for the needs and aspirations of current and future generations.
Key Jobs Responsibilities
The Digital Communications Associate will perform the following functions-
- Work with WRI India communications team and staff on strategies to use the web social media to promote WRI India’s mission, values and programmes.
- Aim to increase the quality of content as well as traffic to each of our web properties, and regularly check and update management on site metrics.
- Maintain online content for WRI India web assets using Drupal 7.
- Perform quality control checks on all new and revised content. Check for length, language, flow, spelling and grammar.
- Work closely with WRI India communications staff to cross-promote content, templates and design.
- Test links and tag content appropriately to support online searches.
- Ensure that naming conventions are respected for marketing URLs, file names, page titles, headers, link text and call-to-actions.
- Source and prepare photos for the web and ensure that they are properly captioned and credited.
- Submit technical support tickets to our Support vendor team prioritize and review list weekly, track issues from inception to closure and communicate outcomes back to users.
- Perform other duties as assigned by the Manager – Marketing and Communications (India).
- Manage WRI India’s social media accounts especially including Twitter and Facebook, aim to integrate and grow traffic to these accounts and regularly check and update management on site metrics.
- Spot social media trends relevant to WRI’s work, and work to include our content in nationally trending conversations.
- Produce relevant graphics for social media, capturing both images and inspiring content.
- Tweet and update content daily, keeping content fresh and relevant, get staff involved in retreating, and engaging on social media, helping to spread WRI messaging, where possible.
- Develop info graphics and digital content, and promote via social media.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must have-
- Bachelor’s Degree required (Marketing, Information Technology preferred).
- Minimum 2 to 3 years of full time experience working with the following.
- Online content management systems, particularly open-source platforms such as Drupal or WordPress and.
- Web content management on a large, public-facing website.
- Project management experience developing websites using outside developers.
- Familiarity with web design principles.
- Familiarity with web development workflow.
- A solid understanding of SEO strategy, and the ability to brainstorm creative growth strategies for digital and social media outreach, as well as an understanding of other web best practices and standards.
- Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, ability to manage multiple tasks across different teams, and take initiative.
- Ability to build and maintain productive relationships with a diverse group of internal clients.
- Demonstrated writing ability to communicate complex ideas in well-organized, everyday language.
- Expect to be tested for basic web writing and editing, such as writing a header, a one-paragraph abstract for a document or a teaser paragraph for a story.
- Basic photo-processing skills: crop, resize, compress.
- Ability to self-manage and meet deadlines.
- Enthusiasm, flexibility, technical curiosity, and willingness to learn.
How to Apply
Applicants must submit their applications, including a CV, cover letter of not more than 400 words, stating a reason of their interest in the post, along with two recent writing samples via email with “Application: Digital Communications Associate – India” in the subject line.
For more information, please visit WRI India.
