Senior Associate, Communications & Advocacy

globalhealthstrategies; New York (NY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Health Strategies (GHS) is hiring a Senior Associate in New York to serve as the engine of client work across communications, advocacy, and project management. You will support two or more client accounts, drive deliverables, and manage key client interactions with entrepreneurial energy and a focus on impact.

We seek writers/editors who can craft clear messages, coordinate across teams, and help develop the next generation of GHS talent.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Producing strategic communications materials from crisp strategies and persuasive pitch decks to narratives around key issues
• Making complex concepts accessible and actionable to a wide audience by creating and polishing key messages, fact sheets, social posts and digital materials
• Thinking like a journalist to identify what makes a strong story and craft pitches and press materials for reporters
• Elevating the voice of high-level influencers by polishing opinion pieces, prepping for interviews and drafting speeches and talking points
• Following and tracking trends in media coverage and high-level conversations impacting global health challenges
• Identifying strategic moments and new champions to influence stakeholders and amplify goals
• Coordinating with partners for message alignment and relationship management
• Owning major deliverables within high-level events, including identifying invitees and speakers
• Building coalitions of support through outreach and relationship management
• Tracking trends in global health policies and funding
• Keeping tabs on moving pieces of the project in fast-paced environments
• Leading components of client calls and meetings
• Providing strategic counsel across global health and development contexts
• Coaching staff on writing and client-facing interactions
• Increasing efficiency, including through use of AI
• Attending events and meetings on behalf of clients

Skills

Exceptional writing

Microsoft Office

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

Tools

Adobe Suite / Canva

Job description

About the Role

Senior Associates are outstanding project managers, writers, and editors — and the engine of our client work. Key to our small teams, Senior Associates drive critical deliverables, run key client interactions, and help develop the next generation of GHS talent. You will work across communications, advocacy, and project management, typically supporting two or more client accounts at once.

We're looking for people who bring entrepreneurial energy and out-of-the-box thinking to complex problems, who are as passionate about the craft of communications as they are about the issues, and who understand that impactful work — especially in a global, fast-moving field — doesn't always fit neatly into a 9-to-5. If that sounds like you, we'd love to be in touch.

Communications

• 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

Advocacy

• 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

Client/Project Management

• Keeping tabs on all the moving pieces of the project, often in a fast-paced environment
• Leading components of client calls and meetings
• Understanding background and nuance across global health and development to provide strategic counsel to clients
• Coaching staff members on writing, client-facing interactions, and time management skills
• Increasing your efficiency, including through use of AI, as you become familiar with the team, work and issue area
• Over-communicating with managers on progress and challenges, bringing solutions to problems before they arise
• Attending events and meetings with senior management on behalf of clients

Required Qualifications

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

Valuable Qualifications

• 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

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: $65,000 - $75,000 (plus bonus opportunities)