Responsibilities

• Strategy: Advise internal teams and clients on proactive and reactive media strategies, including on how to effectively engage journalists, columnists and editors across a wide range of beats and subject areas. Must have a sharp eye for the moments and angles most likely to break through.
• Media Intelligence: Maintain a deep, current understanding of evolving media landscapes, including beat shifts and emerging editorial priorities across a range of outlets (print, broadcast, wire services, podcasts, newsletters). Use and advise on essential tools to strengthen media relations (e.g., media databases, monitoring resources). Monitor real-time news cycles to identify timely opportunities for proactive outreach and to position clients.
• Relationships: Proactively reach out to journalists and editors to build and maintain relationships, ensuring a strong understanding of their interests and priorities for coverage. Pitch story ideas to contacts and share journalist insights with teams and clients to maximize the chances of strong coverage.
• Paid Media: Conduct ongoing research into paid and sponsored media opportunities — including branded content, newsletter sponsorships, and media events — and provide thoughtful recommendations on how these can complement earned media strategies.
• Pitch & Placement: Lead the development and distribution of compelling, well-crafted media materials — including pitches, press releases, media advisories, and op-eds — that are tightly aligned with client goals and tailored to the interests of target journalists.
• Coverage Analysis: Systematically track media placements and assess coverage quality across outlets, formats, and reporters. Provide insights — identifying what's resonating, what's missing, and how messaging or targeting should evolve — and translate those findings into concrete adjustments to pitching strategy.
• Spokesperson & Media Training Support: Partner with internal teams and clients to prepare spokespeople for media interactions, including developing talking points, anticipating likely lines of questioning, and supporting prep sessions ahead of interviews or high-profile announcements.
• Crisis & Issues Management: Support rapid response efforts during sensitive or high-stakes situations, helping to develop proactive and reactive messaging, coordinate media responses, and protect client reputation.
• New Business: Contribute to new business proposals by bringing media expertise to pitches, helping to propose creative media tactics, and demonstrating knowledge of the competitive media landscape.

Requirements

• 5-6 years of overall experience with strong expertise in media relations, including a track record of media placements and relationships with reporters.
• Bachelor's degree; degree in Communications or Journalism a plus.
• Demonstrated excellent writing and editing skills, with the ability to simplify complex topics for public audiences.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Entrepreneurial mindset, creativity, and demonstrated interest in global health and policy.
• Experience in global health or other development companies/organizations; agency experience is a plus.

Preferred

• Experience working in global health and with media outside the US is a plus.

Benefits