Communications Manager

New Delhi, India | Full Time

About the Organization

CLASP is the leading global authority on efficient appliances’ role in fighting climate change and improving people’s lives. With 25 years of expertise, CLASP collaborates with policymakers, industry leaders, and other experts to deliver clear pathways to a more sustainable world for people and the planet.

CLASP is a global nonprofit with offices in Brazil, Europe, India, Indonesia, Kenya, and the United States. We have worked in over 90 countries since our inception in 1999. We are mission driven to a culture of inclusion, transparency, collaboration, and impactful work.

CLASP’s Communication Team

CLASP seeks an experienced, creative communications professional to manage communications and advocacy for our Climate and Clean Energy Access portfolios from our New Delhi office.

CLASP Communications Team ensures that the role of super-efficient appliances in climate change and sustainable development efforts is well-promoted and shared. We work closely with CLASP’s program and research teams to design and conduct advocacy and awareness campaigns and tell stories about the impact of CLASP’s work and how appliance efficiency benefits people and the planet. The team ensures that CLASP’s materials are clear, informative, and influential. We also engage the media and work with partners to promote appliance efficiency.

Our Vision for the Role

The Communications Manager will be responsible for designing, implementing and measuring communications for these portfolios in India, as well as providing liaison and communication guidance with program teams from other offices in the region. The candidate will report to the Communications Director.

The successful candidate will have expertise delivering impactful communications campaigns and innovative content for global audiences and understand how communications further CLASP’s mission and theory of change. We are seeking an agile, creative communications professional with well-honed listening and interpersonal skills, who is skilled at distilling complex information into clear messages and can adapt to evolving contexts and priorities.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership: Build strategic communications work plans in support of CLASP’s Climate and Clean Energy Access programmatic objectives and guide day-to-day project implementation.
• Project management: Strong project management skills and the ability to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Digital Content Creation: Design and write high-quality, impact-focused articles, video scripts, newsletter posts, presentations, and social media posts to effectively communicate climate and sustainable development topics to diverse global audiences as part of ongoing communications across various CLASP brands (Efficiency for Access, Global LEAP Awards, VeraSol, and CLASP). Maintain website editorial calendars and ensure the timely dissemination of programmatic developments. Review content for clarity, meaning, organization, and impact; engage in feedback and iteration. Oversee the communications team’s contributions to the editorial process.
• Design Communication Campaigns: Design, develop, and implement innovative communications strategies and campaigns for various projects.
• Media Engagement: Develop and maintain relationships with the media and with media consultants; develop and implement plans to regularly pitch CLASP’s work.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Work closely with colleagues across CLASP and our partner organizations to deliver ongoing communication tasks and global communications campaigns. Interface with partner NGOs, government representatives and others. Design, craft and deliver compelling presentations to further CLASP’s work for external stakeholders. Prepare partner toolkits.
• Event Communications: Prepare and deliver CLASP communications at leading international events; plan webinars and events.
• Communicate Cutting Edge Research: Support our Climate and Clean Energy Access teams in packaging and promoting reports for maximum impact, through press engagement, newsletters, website stories, and social media.
• Business Development: Contribute to the expansion and continuity of CLASP’s work through donor proposal development and reporting, in collaboration with colleagues in India, Indonesia, and the US.
• Lead CLASP’s Communications in India and the region: Oversee a dedicated communications workstream for CLASP’s work in India while providing liaison support to other programs in the region. Supervise one or more direct reports. Facilitate ongoing training and professional development.
• Plan and Budget: work with research, program, and communications teams to develop communication budgets and schedules. Provide communications expertise – when / where is the right time/place to launch for maximal impact. Drive innovation.
• Oversee Subcontractors: Ensure CLASP communications subcontractors working in India and the region are appropriately oriented and/or engaged; provide quality assurance to confirm the work produced is in line with the CLASP brand and objectives.
• Track Progress: Monitor and evaluate the performance of external communications products and identify opportunities for improvement.

The Ideal Candidate

• A team leader and coach with a passion for growing others and building collaborative, high trust working environments.
• Strong interpersonal skills and an orientation toward working in a collaborative environment. Ability to maintain composure, flexibility, and a sense of humor. Ability to provide productive feedback at multiple levels, internally and externally
• Confident and polished verbal communication skills; ability to connect with and influence people in a diverse, international work environment.
• Proven ability to take complex, technical ideas and turn them into compelling stories in a variety of formats: web, print publications, briefing papers, digital media, and social media all a plus; experience writing funding proposals ideal.
• Good visual eye; must be able to reproduce and maintain CLASP’s brand and family of brand identities across all media products.
• Strong time management and organizational skills with ability to manage multiple tasks and projects at a time under deadline.

Qualifications

• 8+ Years’ previous communications experience in an international context. Preference for experience in more than one Asian country.
• Bachelor’s degree in communications, media, international relations, public relations, digital design or similar.
• Excellent written and digital communication skills, with a track record of professional experience in journalism, media production, advertising, or publishing.
• Candidates with experience in communicating on sustainable development (climate mitigation, climate adaptation, sustainable cities etc.) strongly preferred.
• Proven experience working with the media and relationships with the media is strongly preferred.
• Languages: English fluency a must, an additional regional language is desirable.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud applications and Microsoft Office Suite.

Compensation and Location

CLASP offers competitive compensation commensurate with experience, including fully paid health insurance for individuals and their families/dependents, provident funds and includes a collegial office environment that supports wellness and flexible telecommuting options after a certain period of employment.

The Communications Manager will be based in CLASP’s Delhi office. Preference for those that have official permission to work in India. Travel (domestic and international) is required, approximately quarterly. CLASP is a global organization and as such, evening or weekend hours may be required at times. The role requires in-office attendance on selected days.

The Application Process

To be considered for a position, please use the following link to submit a resume, and cover letter indicating their desired position and salary requirements by 23rd July 2025. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis until the position is closed, early applications are strongly encouraged.

When you apply, we kindly ask you to remove your schools from your resume. There is no need to reformat your resume and leave your degree as is simplify it to “B.A. Economics” for example. Just remember to remove any undergraduate and graduate school name references where possible. This “bias-reduced” process is aimed at opening this opportunity to more candidates, reviewing applicants on performance assessments instead of resume proxies (e.g., where you went to school).

CLASP is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Our goal is to be an inclusive workforce that is representative, at all job levels, of the citizens we serve. Each person is evaluated based on personal skill and merit.