JOB DESCRIPTION
Position Title: Communications Lead
Organization: JNC LLP
Location: Gurugram, Haryana
Employment Type: Full-time, 40 hours per week, on-site.
Experience: Minimum 7 years
About the Organisation
We are an Indian homegrown consulting firm working with social-sector, philanthropic and development organisations. We provide support in monitoring, evaluation and learning, programme management, organisational development, research, capacity building, communications and grants operations, with a focus on practical, high-quality delivery for complex development programmes.
Role Summary
The Communications Lead will serve as the strategic communications anchor across Jaineev's partner ecosystem, ensuring a consistent institutional voice across fundraising, brand, thought leadership, and external engagement. Sitting at the intersection of communications, evidence, and institutional positioning, this role will lead the development of high-impact communication assets, establish governance and quality standards, and translate program insights into compelling narratives that strengthen fundraising, partnerships, and public credibility.
This is a high-ownership leadership role requiring strong editorial judgment, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to build communication systems across multiple organizations.
Key Responsibilities
1. Strategic Communications & Fundraising
• Lead the development of high-impact fundraising and institutional communication assets, including annual reports, gala films, corporate presentations, impact briefs, factsheets, donor collateral, press materials, and strategic publications.
• Design and manage an always-on content pipeline that supports fundraising, donor stewardship, digital engagement, and institutional visibility.
• Build and manage relationships with external agencies, filmmakers, designers, photographers, and other creative partners to ensure consistently high-quality outputs.
• Oversee the institutional communications calendar and maintain a centralized repository of communication assets, stories, films, photography, and supporting collateral.
2. Brand Governance & Institutional Voice
• Establish and uphold brand standards, editorial quality, co-branding protocols, and communication guidelines across the partner ecosystem.
• Lead communication governance for all high-visibility external outputs, ensuring consistency, accuracy, and reputational integrity.
• Develop communication policies, approval frameworks, and capacity-building initiatives that enable partners to communicate effectively while maintaining a unified institutional identity.
• Monitor external communications across partners and proactively manage communication risks.
3. Thought Leadership & Evidence Translation
• Shape institutional thought leadership by working with technical and program teams to develop articles, blogs, knowledge products, and strategic publications.
• Translate program evidence, research, and MERL outputs into compelling communication products for fundraising, policy engagement, and public audiences.
• Lead the identification and development of national and international award submissions that strengthen institutional positioning.
• Guide the communication strategy for key institutional events, external engagements, and donor-facing platforms.
4. Partner Engagement & Strategic Collaboration
• Work closely with implementation partners, fundraising teams, program leaders, and senior management to align communication priorities across the ecosystem.
• Support donor visits and institutional engagements through strategic communication planning and narrative design.
• Build communication capacity across partner organizations through guidance, training, and collaborative planning.
Required Qualifications & Expectations
• Minimum 7 years of experience in strategic communications, brand management, marketing, or fundraising communications, preferably within the nonprofit, development, or philanthropic sector.
• Demonstrated experience leading communications across complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Strong experience in fundraising communications and developing high-quality institutional publications, campaigns, films, and donor-facing content.
• Excellent writing, editing, storytelling, and editorial skills, with the ability to translate technical information into compelling narratives.
• Experience managing external agencies, creative partners, and cross-functional teams.
• Strong understanding of brand governance, communication strategy, and reputational risk management.
• Comfortable working across distributed teams and collaborating with international stakeholders. Work will involve calls across time zones.
Core Competencies
1. Strategic communications and institutional positioning
2. Exceptional writing, editing, and editorial judgment
3. Fundraising and donor communications
4. Brand governance and quality assurance
5. Stakeholder and partner management
6. Project and vendor management
7. Systems thinking and process design
8. Cross-functional leadership and collaboration
Salary and Benefits are competitive and commensurate to qualification and experience. We provide competitive group health insurance.
Application Process:
Interested candidates should submit their CV, a cover letter explaining their suitability for the role, current CTC, expected CTC and availability/notice period.
Apply to: recruitment.jncllp@gmail.com
Subject line: Application – Comms Lead.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.