Programme Manager (Strategic Communications & Knowledge Management)

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About the Organization

WASSAN (Watershed Support Services and Activities Network) is a prominent non-profit organization committed to fostering economic prosperity alongside ecological security for communities in rainfed regions across India. Since its inception in 1999 and based in Hyderabad, WASSAN has worked intensively in four states and engages extensively through networks in another ten states.

With an annual turnover of approximately INR 40 crores and a dedicated team of over 400 staffs across various locations, WASSAN implements impactful programs focused on natural resource management, rainfed agriculture, and agroecological transformation.

Job Description

The Programme Manager – Strategic Communications & Knowledge Management will play a strategic role in shaping how WASSAN learns, positions itself, and engages externally. The role goes beyond dissemination to actively inform organisational strategy, partnerships, and growth by translating grassroots experience and research into knowledge products, narratives, and influence pathways. The Programme Manager will lead an integrated communications and knowledge management function that supports three core objectives:

• Strengthening WASSAN’s strategic engagements with policymakers, networks, funders, and allied institutions
• Deepening organisational learning and institutional memory across programmes and geographies
• Building a coherent public narrative that reflects WASSAN’s values, evidence, and long-term vision

Reporting to the Executive Secretary, the role works closely with Directors and Team Leads to ensure that communication and knowledge outputs directly inform strategic decision-making, programme evolution, and policy influence. WASSAN values curiosity, collaboration, and respect for grassroots knowledge. The role requires comfort in non-hierarchical settings and a commitment to co-creating narratives with field teams.

Job Responsibilities

• Strategic Communications Leadership: Lead WASSAN’s organisation-wide communications and knowledge management strategy, ensuring that field experience, research, and networks actively inform WASSAN’s strategic engagements, partnerships, and growth.
• Narrative, Influence, and Positioning: Shape and steward WASSAN’s public narrative and thought leadership in ecological security, rainfed agriculture, and rural livelihoods across policy, civil society, and media platforms.
• Knowledge Synthesis and Organisational Learning: Build systems to synthesise programme learnings and grassroots insights into clear, usable knowledge that strengthens programme design, policy engagement, and institutional memory.
• Leadership Advisory Role: Work closely with the Executive Secretary, Directors, and Team Leads as a strategic partner, identifying emerging themes, evidence, and narrative opportunities to support organisational decision-making.
• Team and Capacity Building: Build and mentor a multidisciplinary communications and knowledge team, and strengthen internal capacities for documentation, research communication, and media engagement.
• External Engagement and Digital Presence: Provide strategic oversight to media engagement, key publications, events, and digital platforms to ensure coherence, credibility, and impact.
• Planning and Stewardship: Develop annual work plans and budgets for the function and ensure effective implementation.

Education Qualification/Required Skills & Experience

• Minimum 12 years of experience in communications, public engagement, journalism, or related fields, preferably within development, sustainability, or public policy, sectors.
• At least 3–5 years of experience in a leadership or senior coordination role.
• Strong writing, editing, storytelling, and presentation skills across popular formats.
• Proven media relations and digital communications experience.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work collaboratively across teams and geographies.
• Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Strong interest in farming systems, rural transformation, and public policy.

Interested candidates may apply through [application link] by 10 January 2026.

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