Manager, Communications & Advocacy

Global Health Strategies (GHS); New York (NY); On-site; USD 80,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Health Strategies (GHS) is seeking a senior manager to lead cross-functional teams on high-impact health policy campaigns in New York. You will devise strategies, mobilize teams, and translate complex health topics into clear client messages across media and events.

Responsibilities include guiding communications, advocacy, and client/project management; mentoring staff; building coalitions; and delivering strategic counsel to clients, while maintaining tight deadlines in a fast-paced

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; 5-7 years of work experience; MS Office proficiency; Exceptional writing ability; Experience managing teams to achieve ambitious results.

Responsibilities

• Develop messages, fact sheets, social content and mobilize teams for client campaigns.
• Build relationships with top-tier media outlets to secure coverage for client goals.
• Polish opinion pieces, prep influencers for interviews, and provide ongoing counsel.
• Track media trends to inform strategies advancing client interests.
• Identify strategic moments and build coalitions to influence target stakeholders.
• Coordinate high-level events, inviting speakers and developing agendas.

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Canva

Job description

Responsibilities

Managers lead teams so that our clients achieve their goals. They know how to devise a strategy and mobilize people to act, build expertise across wide-ranging topics, and provide strategic advice to diverse audiences. Specific responsibilities include:

Job Description

Job Description About the Role

Responsibilities

Managers lead teams so that our clients achieve their goals. They know how to devise a strategy and mobilize people to act, build expertise across wide-ranging topics, and provide strategic advice to diverse audiences. Specific responsibilities include:

Communications

Making complex concepts accessible and actionable to a wide audience by developing strategies for creating key messages, fact sheets, social media posts, and creative digital materials and mobilizing teams accordingly

Build strong relationships with top-tier media outlets so that our clients' efforts receive the best coverage for advancing their goals

Elevating the voice and expertise of high-level influencers by polishing opinion pieces at key moments, prepping them for interviews, and providing ongoing counsel

Leveraging trends in media coverage, key announcements, new evidence and high-level conversations to further strategies that work on behalf of client interests

Advocacy

Identifying strategic moments and new champions to influence target stakeholders and amplify our clients' 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 overseeing 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 opportunities to continuously innovate on strategy

Client/Project Management

Oversee all major deliverables by developing a vision and strategy and delegating work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment

Leading client calls and meetings, while mentoring team members on how to do these things effectively

Over-communicating with senior management on progress and challenges, creating solutions to problems before they arise

Understanding background and nuance across our priority issue areas to form compelling arguments and provide strategic counsel to clients

Coaching junior staff members on writing, client-facing interactions, and time management skills

Attending events and meetings with senior management on behalf of clients

Required Qualifications

• ~ Bachelor's degree required
• ~5-7 years of work experience
• ~Microsoft Office proficiency
• ~ Exceptional writing ability
• ~ Experience managing teams to achieve ambitious results

Valuable Qualifications

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

About Global Health Strategies

Global Health Strategies (GHS) is a global health and development communications and advocacy consultancy. We use research, advocacy and storytelling to inspire action on key policies, funding and programs - working with leading philanthropies, multilateral organizations, pharmaceutical companies, NGOs, and governments around the world.

Our work spans infectious diseases, universal health coverage, women's and girls' health, climate and agriculture, gender equality, and more. On any given day, our teams are drafting op-eds for senior global health leaders, building coalitions to drive new policy commitments, running communications for major international conferences, and creating campaigns that put critical issues in front of the audiences that can act on them. We do this work across offices in New York, London, Geneva, Nairobi, Johannesburg, New Delhi, Rio de Janeiro, and beyond.

NYC Salary Range: $80,000 - $90,000 (plus bonus opportunities)