Communications & Outreach Specialist

About the Urban Practitioners Programme (UPP)

The UPP is an education and capacity building programme for urban practitioners spanning disciplines and levels in public, private, academic and civil society sectors. IIHS believes that a city s transformation rests largely on the collective endeavours of practitioners who confront challenges through an informed, reflexive and creative manner. Through a portfolio of customised and open enrolment capacity development programmes and projects, the UPP offers institutions and practitioners new frameworks of knowledge, backed by a cohesive package of skills. Our portfolio spans sectors, disciplines and scales of practice and seeks to intervene at three levels:

Job Description

The communications and outreach specialist will be part of the core UPP team, responsible for supporting the planning and delivery of project and programme level communications and public engagement across UPP projects. S/he will also be involved in providing outreach and market research support to UPP activities and initiatives as needed.

Apart from collaborative working within the UPP team, the role will also require close coordination with the IIHS Communications & Design team to ensure that programme communications are aligned with the core communications strategy at the institutional level.

This will be a contractual position for an initial term of 11 months, renewable on mutual consent.

Activities and Tasks

Responsibilities would include, but not be limited to, the following:

Structure and Reporting

The communications and outreach specialist will be an External Consultant coordinating with the Head UPP or with any other person designated by the Head, and will be required to collaborate effectively with a diverse group of internal teams and external individuals/ organisations;

Person Specification

An ideal candidate shall have the following: