Senior Associate, Communications & Advocacy

Responsibilities

• Producing compelling, strategic communications materials from crisp communications strategies and persuasive pitch decks to compelling narratives around key issues
• Making complex concepts accessible and actionable to a wide audience by creating and polishing key messages, fact sheets, social media posts and creative digital materials
• Thinking like a journalist to identify what makes a strong story and craft pitches and press materials for reporters
• Elevating the voice and expertise of high-level influencers by polishing opinion pieces at key moments, prepping them for interviews and drafting speeches and talking points for events
• Following and tracking trends in media coverage, key announcements, new evidence and high-level conversations that may impact priority global health challenges
• Identifying strategic moments and new champions to influence target stakeholders and amplify our clients’ strategic goals
• Getting partners on the same page through careful coordination, relationship management and message alignment
• Getting partners, influencers and decision-makers in the same place by owning major deliverables within high-level events, including identifying invitees and speakers, and developing agendas or presentations
• Building new coalitions of support for an issue with dedicated outreach, organization and relationship management
• Following and tracking trends in global health policies and funding

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree
• 3-6 years of related work experience
• Exceptional writing ability
• Microsoft Office proficiency

Preferred

• Communications agency, communications or public relations experience
• Public health, global development or political campaign experience
• Foreign language skills (French or Spanish, in particular)
• International work experience
• Master's degree in a related field
• Experience with Adobe Suite of creative tools (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop) or Canva