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JOB DESCRIPTION We are looking for a passionate and creative Communication Specialist to join our Narrative Building team. In this role, you will help shape and amplify the narrative around life skills, equity, and systemic change in education. You will collaborate across functions to craft compelling content and campaigns that inspire, influence, and drive change. Key Responsibilities: Narrative Crafting & Storytelling: Develop powerful stories, articles, op-eds, and multimedia content that bring our work to life for diverse audiences donors, policymakers, educators, youth, and the public. Content Development: Overlook and create engaging written and visual content for reports, blogs, social media, newsletters, website, and media outreach. Campaigns & Strategy: Contribute to strategic campaigns to seed new narratives about success, learning, and youth potential, in alignment with our vision. Collaboration & Coordination: Work closely with internal teams to surface stories, insights, and impact data. Translate these into communication assets. Media Relations: Identify media opportunities, build and maintain relationships with journalists and media outlets, pitch stories, and support the development of press releases and media kits. Social media management: Plan, create, and schedule content for social media platforms (Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, etc.). Monitor engagement, respond to comments and messages, and track analytics to inform strategy. Key Skills & Qualifications: 3 5 years of experience in strategic communication, journalism, development communication, or related fields. Strong writing and storytelling skills able to distill complex ideas into accessible, moving narratives. Comfort working in a dynamic, and collaborative environment. Prior experience working in the social sector is a plus. Familiarity with design, digital tools, and content strategy is an advantage. Preferred Qualifications: Experience in nonprofit, education, or advocacy spaces. Familiarity with social impact storytelling and youth engagement strategies. Strong understanding of diverse audience dynamics and inclusive language. How to Apply: To apply, please send an updated CV along with portfolio to . Please mention Application for the position of Communication Specialist Narrative Building in the subject line of your email. Only short-listed candidates shall be notified by us. Dream a Dream is committed to upholding diversity and inclusion in our workplace and we strongly encourage people from underrepresented groups, within the organisation and outside, to apply to open positions. We embrace our employees differences of religion or belief, caste, race, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation gender, gender identity or expression, language differences, family, or marital status, physical, mental and development abilities, social or economic class, education, work and behavioural styles, political affiliation, and other characteristics that make us unique.
