Senior English Writer

The English Writer's role is to act as a final quality control check for all communication materials including but not limited to press releases, media invites, opinion editorials, speeches, talking points and digital copy before they are disseminated to the media and/or published on client channels. Joining us at the start of a major project, the English Editor will be a responsive, responsible, and authoritative self-starter who can write original, compelling content across all platforms and, vitally, contribute across the project management team with coherent strategic inputs. Experience working for ministries and energy sector is a plus.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Assist various client teams in writing news releases, media invites, Q&As, speeches, features, bios and other communication material such as corporate/business presentations in PPT or other such software.
• Review, edit and rewrite all written material (to include traditional, digital, and social media content) as required by team members.
• Write press releases and statements.
• Write official speeches for conferences and meetings.
• Write Op-eds for the minister and other officials.
• Prepare media plans and specialized campaigns.
• Assess Media Opportunity including Interviews & Commentary.
• Review the content of social media platforms.
• Review the content of the Ministry's publications.
• Understand the requirements of various teams and convey the client’s key messages adequately and appropriately through effective use of language.
• Support teams by providing error-free media-worthy material.
• Consult and guide client-handling teams on matters related to media requests.
• Interact with team members and support them in building accurate communication measures.
• Manage deadline-oriented workflow of releases, invites and requests from various team members on a daily basis.
• Contribute to the development of new concepts, techniques or ideas at brainstorming sessions.
• Support the project manager in ensuring that resources are in place to cover delivery of all written deliverables.

AD-Hoc Assignments/Reports:

• As per the Direct Manager’s requests.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Literature/Journalism/Communications.
• A minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in a consulting firm, corporation, diplomatic post or media role.
• Fluent in English (Mother tongue fluency).
• Proficiency in providing error-free releases/invites that can be accepted by the media.
• Ability to recognize the key messages of clients and offer effective ways to forcefully convey those messages.
• Capable of rapidly handling industry-specific research to add value to the releases and other communication material for the teams.
• Completely thorough with local, regional and global current affairs.
• Quick with computers especially skilled in MS Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook.
• Some travel will be required.
• Willing to work additional or irregular hours, including nights and weekends, as needed.