Key Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership: Build strategic communications work plans in support of clean energy access programmatic objectives and guide day-to-day project implementation.
• Lead a high-performing team: Oversee a dedicated communications workstream for CLASP’s Low Energy Inclusive Appliances program (a.k.a. Efficiency for Access), supervise an international team of communications staff, and facilitate ongoing training and professional development.
• Communicate cutting edge research: Support our research team in packaging and messaging their reports for specific audiences for maximal impact, through newsletters, website stories or blogs, and presentations. Experience facilitating a complicated, matrixed editorial process a plus.
• Generate compelling stories & case studies: Work with the program and research teams to turn technical information into compelling stories through articles and case studies for a variety of audiences, including the CLASP Board, donors, international agencies, policymakers, and partner organizations.
• Digital media management & engagement: Identify new opportunities to drive CLASP’s brand and message through our five unique web platforms. Maintain website editorial calendars and ensure the timely dissemination of programmatic developments.
• Proposal development & donor reporting: Contribute to the expansion, continuity of CLASP’s clean energy access programing by supporting proposal development and fundraising activities, as well as reporting.
• Track progress: Monitor and evaluate the performance of external communications products and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Connect: Make connections from CLASP’s clean energy access portfolio to related sectors (e.g. agriculture, women’s empowerment); to broader development goals; and the international agenda for climate change mitigation, adaptation, and resilience.

Qualifications

• A track record of achievement in communications, including international experience, with a preference for experience in Sub-Saharan Africa and/or South Asia. Directionally, we are looking for 4-6 years of previous communications experience.
• 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 CLASP and CLASP family of brands across multimedia.
• Demonstrated experience supervising and developing team members.
• Experience writing for a donor audience and leading an editorial process with subject matter experts and teams on reporting or fundraising.
• Strong interpersonal skills and an orientation toward working in a collaborative environment; ability to maintain composure, flexibility, and a sense of humor under tight deadlines.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud applications and Microsoft Office Suite.
• Candidates with experience in the clean energy access sector strongly preferred; those with experience in international development broadly, renewable energy, sustainable development, and/or energy efficiency may also be considered.