Salary: INR 2575291 - 3450088 pro rata, per annum 

Hours: 37.5 hours per week (5 days a week) excluding lunch breaks 

Contract: This is a permanent contract. The notice period is three months in writing on either side. There is a probationary period of six months. 

Location: Mumbai, India with the possibility of remote work in India. Candidates must have a valid right to work in the country you are applying.  This is a remote role with regular office working at least once per month or as needed for priority internal and external meetings. 

Benefits: various opportunities for flexible working, generous time off policies, and other sector-competitive benefits. 

Are you passionate about inspiring people to take meaningful action in creating a socially just and regenerative future? Are you a strategic communications thinker with an appetite for integrated marketing activity that raises awareness and understanding of sustainability challenges, helps generate income and ideally drives impactful engagement with civil society, industry and other stakeholders? Do you want to work as part of an international team – bringing an understanding of what it takes to build and shift narratives? If so, then this is a unique opportunity for you.  

About Forum for the Future 

Forum for the Future is one of the world’s leading international sustainability organisations. We work alongside businesses, philanthropies, government, civil society and others as part of change-making collaborations set on creating a just and regenerative future. We bring a 29-year track record in influencing change on the issues that matter most, inspiring change-actors to step up their ambition, stretch their vision and find pathways that are systemic, strategic and capable of tackling the root causes of our current crises.    

We focus on influencing three pivotal transitions: to renewable energy, to a sustainable food system, and in the purpose of business. Our collaborations are largely either one-to-one or coalition-based, bringing together influential organisations to tackle shared challenges. We work out of four regions — the Americas, UK/Europe, India and Southeast Asia — and operate as a global team, delivering both international and local projects. As a dynamic, international leader with a deep commitment to creating a better future, you will play a pivotal role in using communications to drive real and lasting impact. 

About the team 

We are a multicultural team of 67 people, working out of the UK/Europe, Americas, India and Southeast Asia.  

This post, Senior Communications and Marketing Manager, will work across our India geography while also supporting global projects. As part of the International Communications and Marketing team (based across all four regions), you will use integrated marketing approaches to support programme, income generation and brand goals at what is a key and exciting time for Forum’s work in India. 

In particular, you will work closely with our programmatic teams, using communications in ways that influence what people think, feel and do about the issues we face and the timebound opportunities we have to tackle them. 

About the role 

Forum is at an exciting time in its evolution, offering opportunities for unprecedented impact as we approach our 30th anniversary. We updated our strategy in 2022, and it is now firmly in its implementation phase.  

We know that to create change, we need to engage and inspire change-makers – and that starts with raising awareness of who we are, what we do, how and why. It means influencing what people think, feel and ultimately do about our social and environmental issues. And it means tightly monitoring impact to adapt communications strategies as we go. 

The post-holder will lead the development and delivery of our India communications and marketing strategy, leveraging the full channel mix — from press and PR to digital and events — with audience-led content at the heart.  

You will also lead communications efforts for our programmes, including but not limited to the Responsible Energy Initiative, Growing our Future and work on transition minerals. 

The post is an exciting opportunity for anyone passionate about creating genuinely thought-leading content with the potential to engage hearts and minds at what is a pivotal moment for the sustainability movement.  

About you 

To succeed in this role you will have: 

• a desire to use communications to influence what people think, feel and do about social and environmental issues  

• an understanding of what it takes to build and shift narratives in the sustainability space 

• an understanding of what it takes to use communications to enable meaningful action within industry, civil society and other stakeholder groups  

• a passion for marketing and thought leadership with real potential to cut-through the noise 

• a passion for collaborative leadership, underpinned by a self-starter flair 

• ambition to be part of a team working for fundamental change, for a just and regenerative future 

• demonstrated ability to lead the shaping of an ambitious communications and marketing strategy — from objectives and audiences to value propositions and impact measurement/learning 

• a full understanding of using integrated marketing to build a brand, to create change and to raise income. This includes demonstrated experience in working across owned, earned and paid-for media, and knowing which channel(s) to leverage and audiences to engage for maximum impact. It also includes demonstrated understanding of local and global campaign development processes, from audience research to proposition development and communications planning 

• demonstrated understanding of the Indian media landscape, and contacts across various Indian media    

• a laser focus on priorities 

And to further thrive in this role you will: 

●  be effective at highly distributed and networked ways of working 

●  enjoy working with people from different cultures and across geographies and your preferred ways of working are embodied by Forum’s values (being courageous, adaptive, empathetic, inquisitive, playful and respectful). 

●  be an effective communicator, writer, presenter and speaker — able to engage effectively with different audiences and clearly communicate complex sustainability information to non-expert audiences in a way that compels action. 

If you do not meet all of the requirements outlined in the job description but still believe you have the right mix of skills and experience to thrive in this role and further Forum’s ambitious goals for change, we encourage you to apply. 

In return, we offer a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of systems thinking and change making, continually learning and experimenting to identify how we deliver the most impact working in a collaborative multi-cultural team environment. 

Forum for the Future works in a space of complexity where there are no easy answers – an ideal candidate will be comfortable with uncertainty and be able to hold space for exploration and innovation. Resilience is a key personal attribute that is necessary to the role. 

Our work environment 

We believe in being courageous, adaptive, inquisitive, respectful, empathetic and playful. You can read more about our organisational values here. These values help build our common culture, shape our shared purpose and guide us in all actions and decisions.  We are inspired by the world in which we live and those with whom we share it and seek to act justly in all we do. 

We enjoy working in teams, collaborating, and learning from each other. We are a dynamic, flexible and supportive team of people who care about each other’s wellbeing and the world around us. 

At Forum, we aspire to foster positive team spirit and to provide the best possible working environment for all our staff; one that is based on the highest standards of ethics, honesty, integrity, openness and transparency. 

We are an inclusive organisation that encourages applications from across our diverse communities. We’re committed to building a team of capable and thriving people from all walks of life. 

If this role interests and excites you, we would love to hear from you.  Where you do not meet all of the requirements outlined in the job description, but still believe you have the right mix of skills and experience to thrive in this role and further Forum’s ambitious goals for change, we encourage you to apply. 

In return, we offer a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of systems thinking and change making. We work as a close knit, dynamic, and supportive team. We offer various opportunities for flexible working to help you manage your work life balance. 

Together we can create a just and regenerative future. 

 Application process 

To find out more about this vacancy, please download and read the full job description.  

Job description

Application deadline is 11.55pm IST, 24.8.2025 

Due to a large volume of applications, we may close this application process before the stated deadline. Early applications are encouraged.

We use the Applied platform because it is designed to reduce bias in our recruitment process. We therefore request you to avoid using AI for your application as we can tell if an application is written using AI and will be disqualified. We wish to hear your experience and answers to the questions. To apply for this job, we ask you to answer a few work-based questions. Please therefore read the application questions carefully and answer them in the space provided (250 words) to clearly demonstrate your understanding of the role, and how your skills and experience will enable you to thrive and deliver in this post in Forum for the Future 

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Please note: 

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If your application is not successful, any personal data provided to us by Applied (including any personal data relating to equal opportunities monitoring as set out above) will be retained by Forum for the Future for no longer than 12 months after the application deadline has passed, at which point your personal data will be securely deleted. We only keep your information for that period in order to allow us to comply with relevant legal obligations. 

Please note: 

If you do not already hold the right to work in the respective countries and/or require sponsorship in order to continue working in the country, you should think carefully before applying. This is because we will be unable to sponsor you. 

Equal Opportunities 

Forum for the Future wholeheartedly supports the principle of equal opportunities in employment. We promote and support equality, diversity and inclusion both in our own workplace and through our work with our partners and the wider public.  We actively support and promote diversity as an essential component of sustainability, and as a key element of our organisational values.  We oppose all forms of unlawful or unfair discrimination on the grounds of colour, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, age, disability, caste, religion or belief. We encourage applications from under-represented groups, including those who identify as disabled, LGBTQ, ethnic minorities, and come from diverse social and educational backgrounds.