Associate Manager, Advocacy and Communications, position available at Population Services International.

With over 45 years of experience, working in over 60 countries Population Services International (PSI) is the world’s leading non-profit social marketing organization. PSI is reimagining healthcare, by putting the consumer at the center, and wherever possible – bringing care to the front door. It is working to fix market failures, shape future health markets and shift policy and funding to better support consumer powered healthcare. It is looking for an Associate Manager to play a key role in the delivery of campaigns and activities to support PSI’s advocacy, communications and influencing agenda.

Key Responsibilities

• support the development of workplans, targets and milestones for advocacy projects, in line with project objectives and overall organizational objectives.
• Works with senior team members and project staff to develop key messaging to support project goals.
• Coordinate advocacy response between technical and regional and PSI network members.
• Provide technical advocacy and communications assistance to project staff at HQ and in-country, including facilitating advocacy planning workshops and supporting work to implement plans when appropriate.
• Work with key members of PSI’s technical and project teams to identify and optimize events and other engagement opportunities to influence key stakeholders and decision-makers.
• Contribute to developing a monitoring, documentation and evaluation approach as well as plan for elevating and disseminating learning and innovation.
• Package key learnings from PSI, and other sources, to shape policy briefs, messaging and other communications.
• Support the development of a learning agenda, including developing and disseminating case studies based on advocacy learnings to share throughout the PSI network.
• Ensure that internal audiences are kept apprised of project updates through email marketing, brown bags, webinars and other vehicles for direct communications.
• Develop and produce a wide range of compelling written and multimedia content to use for advocacy-related activities.

Qualifications and Requirements

• A bachelor or master’s degree in communications, advocacy, policy or related fields is required;
• 3-7 years of experience creating polished and impactful communications materials;
• Proven experience producing a wide variety of high-quality multi-media communications products that are both stylish and substantive.
• Excellent English writing and editing skills and a portfolio of quality written products for a variety of formats (e.g., blogs, articles, op-eds, etc).
• Understanding of and experience with social and digital media (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, blogging) required.
• Proficiency in MS Office applications (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint) and Office 365.
• Excellent organizational and administrative skills with keen attention to detail and timeliness.
• Proven ability to develop routines to manage large workloads and organize work efficiently.
• Understanding of international health advocacy desired.
• Demonstrated experience with promotion and communications for global family planning and/or adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health programs is a plus, but not necessary.
• Strong interest in public health, menstrual health, women and girls and poverty alleviation.
• Experience and excellence in working with large, multinational and intercultural teams.
• Fluency in either French, Spanish or Portuguese is desirable