Role: Communications Head, Delhi/Remote
Experience: 8-12 years
Salary: 12-24 LPA
Pro-tip: It may look like a communication role but it is an extended role where you will also be preparing communication material for policy briefs post review so having understanding of the policy ecosystem is much needed.
About the role
We produce rigorous research on youth employment in India. We need someone who can make that work land — with journalists, policymakers, and the public. This role sits at the intersection of editorial, brand, and strategy. You'll manage a 29-person media fellowship, shape our public voice, and turn complex policy outputs into content people actually read and share.
If you follow the news obsessively, have opinions about how policy stories get told, and can edit a 1500-word brief and a 30-second reel in the same afternoon — this is your role.
What You'll Do
Media Fellowship
- Manage and grow the Tracking our fellowship — currently 29 fellows across 22 states
- Review, edit, and improve fellow submissions for quality, accuracy, and consistency
- Coordinate volunteers and manage the content production pipeline
- Develop the fellowship as a nationally recognised programme for ground-level youth reporting
Content Creation
- Create reels, short-form videos, and social media content that translate our research into formats that travel
- Write and edit Substack posts, policy briefs, explainers, and threads
- Package platform data and parliamentary analysis for different audiences — a journalist needs something different from a policymaker
- Maintain a consistent editorial calendar aligned with news cycles and organisational priorities
Brand & Communications
- Own org's public voice across all platforms
- Review and sign off on all external communications before publication — nothing goes out without your eyes on it
- Build and grow social media presence with a clear point of view on youth employment discourse
- Write timely commentary that positions the Foundation in ongoing policy debates
Who You Are
- You have a portfolio — published articles, campaigns, content series, something that shows you can produce at quality
- You've managed writers, fellows, or a content team before and know how to give feedback that makes work better
- You write clearly and edit ruthlessly — across long-form and short-form
- You can shoot and edit a reel; you're not dependent on a production team for basic video
- You follow economic and policy news closely — not as a job requirement but because you can't help it
- You're a self-starter who can structure your own week without being managed
Bonus
- Prior work in policy communications, civic journalism, or public interest media
- Understanding of youth employment debates in India — informalization, skills gap, gig economy
- Experience growing an audience on Substack, LinkedIn, or Instagram in a policy or public interest context
The bar is simple: Can you take a 40-page research report, figure out the three things that matter, and turn them into a brief, a thread, and a reel — each written for a different reader?
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Hiring Note: Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. This job is first posted on March 20, 2026, on Ground Zero
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