Job Summary

The Health Communication Specialist II leads the strategic development and implementation of a special initiative focused on heterosexual cisgender Black women for CDC’s Let’s Stop HIV Together campaign as part of SMC’s HIV Communication Team. The Health Communication Specialist II may also provide support to other campaign tasks, as needed, and may support the implementation of other communication projects within SMC.

The Social Marketing and Communication (SMC) department within FHI 360’s U.S. Programs is a national leader in applying a science-based approach to social marketing and communication to address public health and other challenges in the U.S. SMC currently implements a diverse portfolio of social marketing, public relations, communication, and training and technical assistance projects in the U.S. that are funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, private associations, and foundations. In the past decade, our team has worked on issues such as diabetes, emergency and pandemic preparedness, obesity prevention, sexual health, HIV, cancer, asthma, immunizations, violence prevention, access to health care, and tobacco control and cessation. Samples of our work can be viewed at smcgallery.fhi360.org.

Key Tasks include:

• Providing strategic leadership and day-to-day management of a campaign special initiative that focuses on the sexual health of Black women; this includes providing direction and oversight of 1 support team member.
• Serving as a trusted communication advisor of consumer communication needs, content development, review, and approval.
• Working closely with the creative development, social media, paid media, scalable outreach, and reporting task managers to coordinate activities and meet deadlines.
• Working closely with task managers on message strategy and key message development and dissemination.
• Liaising with clients and acting as a main point of contact for all initiative activities, including creative asset requests.
• Maintain client relationships and proactively identify and propose solutions for project challenges.
• Writing copy and content for a broad range of materials, including video, radio, print, and digital promotional items, social media posts, consumer materials (factsheets, brochures, infographics, website content, etc.), outreach products (toolkits, partner emails, recruitment letters), and project management resources (communication plans, creative briefs, strategy documents, and summary reports).
• Collaborating with Design Lab (in-house graphic design team) on creative development needs.
• Assist with marketing and business development initiatives.

Major Responsibilities:

• Translate consumer testing and research findings into persuasive communication products.
• Draft campaign work plans, creative briefs, and performance reports.
• May provide operational and technical support as needed such as writing and/or reviewing monthly technical reports, updating work plans, etc.
• Coordinate with subcontractors, vendors, researchers, other team members, partners, and clients to establish workflows and timelines and keep them up to date.
• Use good judgement to monitor and address client issues in a timely manner and keep senior project management apprised of activity progress and barriers.
• Contribute to business development efforts, including proposal strategy, writing support, and development of speculative creative.
• Provide creative development and writing support to other projects as needed.
• Contribute to the team’s upbeat culture of innovation, customer service and excellence.

Qualifications:

• **Bachelor’s degree in Advertising, Public Relations, Journalism, English, Communications, health promotion or related field with five or more years’ experience with strategic communication, health communication, marketing, outreach, public relations, advertising, promotion, or other communications methods required.
• ** Typically requires 5-8 years of writing, editing, and publications experience.
• Experience in successfully reaching and working with diverse populations, including Black and Afro-Latina women.
• Expertise in sexual health, including HIV prevention and treatment, is a major plus.
• Excellent technical and creative writing skills. Demonstrated experience in translating public health science into persuasive, digestible copy for consumers and professionals.
• Excellent judgment and demonstrated ability to build and maintain positive relationships with external clients.
• Prior work experience in a non-governmental organization (NGO), government agency, or private organization.
• Experience working with CDC is not required but is considered a major plus.
• Agency or large media campaign experience a plus.
• Thrives in high volume, dynamic environments and operates effectively amongst ambiguity.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to project manage with efficiency and diplomacy.
• Spanish-language fluency, both written and spoken, a plus but not required.
• Ability to work independently as well as part of a heavily matrixed team.
• Ability to prioritize and competently manage a variety of activities with multiple deadlines.
• Familiarity with SharePoint and monday.com, a plus
• Expertise with Microsoft Office Suite including Teams.

Typical Physical Demands:

• Ability to spend long hours looking at computer screen and doing repetitive work on a keyboard.
• Ability to sit or stand for extended periods of time.
• Ability to lift or move 5 – 50 lbs.

The expected hiring salary range for this role is listed below. FHI 360 pay ranges represent national averages that vary by geographic location. When determining an offer amount, FHI 360 factors in multiple considerations, including but not limited to: relevant years of experience and education possessed by the applicant, internal equity, business sector, and budget.

Base salary is only one component of our offer. FHI 360 contributes 12% of monthly base pay to a money purchase pension plan account. Additionally, all US based staff working full-time, which is calculated at 40 hours/week, receive 18 days of paid vacation per year, 12 sick days per year, and 11 holidays per year. Paid time off is reduced pro rata for employees working less than a full-time schedule.

Hiring Salary Range: $75,000 – $92,500

This job posting summarizes the main duties of the job. It neither prescribes nor restricts the exact tasks that may be assigned to carry out these duties. This document should not be construed in any way to represent a contract of employment. Management reserves the right to review and revise this document at any time.

FHI 360 is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer whereby we do not engage in practices that discriminate against any person employed or seeking employment based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law.

Our values and commitments to safeguarding: FHI 360 is committed to preventing any type of abuse, exploitation and harassment in our work environments and programs, including sexual abuse, exploitation and harassment. FHI 360 takes steps to safeguard the welfare of everyone who engages with our organization and programs and requires that all personnel, including staff members and volunteers, share this commitment and sign our code of conduct. All offers of employment will be subject to appropriate screening checks, including reference, criminal record and terrorism finance checks. FHI 360 also participates in the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme (MDS), facilitated by the Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response. In line with the MDS, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any substantiated findings of sexual abuse, exploitation and/or harassment during the applicant’s tenure with previous employers. By applying, job applicants confirm their understanding of these recruitment procedures and consent to these screening checks.

FHI 360 will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws.

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