Responsibilities

• Develop educational materials that promote and support suicide prevention programs and initiatives, ensuring content is accurate, accessible, and tailored for Veteran audiences.
• Partner closely with senior SMEs, clinicians, and program leadership to translate complex, clinically sensitive information into messaging that is scientifically sound and emotionally resonant.
• Create and manage the dissemination of a range of educational products — including toolkits, fact sheets, flyers, infographics, and other digital and print artifacts.
• Ensure all materials align with health literacy guidelines, current clinical guidance, brand guidelines, and accessibility standards.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders (public affairs, digital media, clinical teams) to coordinate timely and consistent messaging across channels.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Communication, journalism, public affairs, or a related field required
• Minimum of five (5) years of experience delivering strategic communications support within federal government and/or management consulting environments
• Demonstrated experience writing about sensitive or complex health topics for a general or specialized audience, ideally within a public health, government, or healthcare communications setting.
• Strong writing, editing, and content development skills and the ability to simplify technical or clinical information without sacrificing accuracy.
• Experience collaborating with clinical or technical subject matter experts to co-develop public-facing materials.
• Experience producing multi-format content (toolkits, fact sheets, digital graphics, social media assets, etc.).
• Understanding of or experience working with Veteran or military-connected populations is a plus.
• Ability to work in the U.S. indefinitely without sponsorship
• Ability to obtain a public trust

Preferred

• Familiarity with safe messaging guidelines around suicide prevention (e.g., guidance from SAMHSA, AFSP, or similar organizations) is strongly preferred.
• Understanding of or experience working with Veteran or military-connected populations is a plus.

Benefits

• PFS offers a benefits package that may include health, dental, and vision coverage; flexible spending accounts; disability and life insurance; a retirement plan; paid time off; and other programs to support employees and their families. Learn more about PFS Benefits.