Job title FPwatch Communications Fellow
Department Family Planning Department
Based in Washington DC
Reports to the Principal Investigator, FPwatch
Who we are
We’re Population Services International (PSI), the world’s leading non-profit social marketing organization. We work to make it easier for people in the developing world to be healthy by providing access to products and services that range from mosquito nets to HIV testing.
There are over 9,000 “PSI’ers” around the world. It’s a diverse group of entrepreneurs and professionals with an unusually wide range of backgrounds – from the medical industry to the music business – all with unique skills we bring to the job.
Join us!
FPwatch is a new multi-country research project designed to provide relevant, high quality evidence to inform and monitor reproductive health policies and programs. Baseline research studies will be implemented in 4 countries including 2 studies integrated with malaria market data collection under PSI’s ACTwatch research project (see www.actwatch.info)). National quantitative surveys in Ethiopia and Nigeria and sub-national surveys in the DRC and India will be conducted among public and private sector service delivery points. These surveys will collect information about family planning commodity and service delivery availability, price, and market share using standardized approaches such that evidence will be comparable across countries and over time. The research tools developed in the course of these initial vertical family planning and integrated family planning and malaria outlet surveys will be packaged together with lessons learned to facilitate the scale up of this market monitoring research.
We are looking for an FPwatch Communications Fellow to help us disseminate our research findings to various stakeholders. You will assist with the development of country-specific FPwatch results dissemination workplans. You will also develop dissemination materials for country offices including country summary briefs, talking points and PowerPoint presentations, as well as undertaking a wide range of writing assignments such as: talking points for national and international events, press releases, reports, fact sheets, newsletters, PowerPoint presentations, and content for the website.
We are looking for a motivated, self-starter to take on this exciting opportunity.
Sound like you? Read on.
Your contribution
Your duties would include:
* Assist with the development of country-specific FPwatch results dissemination workplans. This will include the development of a calendar of events that targets strategic groups, organizations and media at both the country and international levels
* Participate in writing and editing technical and scientific reports, literature reviews and manuscripts as well as concept notes
* Develop dissemination materials for country offices including country summary briefs, talking points and PowerPoint presentations
* Advise the staff within the FPwatch project on advocacy and communications issues including approaches, consistency of language and content of publications and press releases
* Update project website content and relevant sections of the PSI website
What are we looking for?
The basics
* You must have a degree in communications, journalism, international relations, public health or equivalent experience
* At least 2+ years’ experience in advocacy, communications or public relations focusing on a public health issues; knowledge of Family Planning preferred
* You should have excellent organizational and analytical skills, with capacity to work and produce results within a tight timeframe
* Your writing skills should be exemplary, with solid verbal and interpersonal communication skills
* You should have advanced computer skills including using websites for communication purposes, developing graphs and PowerPoint presentations
What would get us excited?
An innovator. You are creative, artistic and able to produce high quality communications materials such as infographics, power point presentations and website content.
STATUS
* Exempt
* Level 7
* Must be authorized to work in the United States. N.B. PSI will not consider work visa sponsorship for this position
PSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from qualified individuals regardless of actual or perceived race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, personal appearance, matriculation, political affiliation, family status or responsibilities, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions or breastfeeding, genetic information, amnesty, veteran, special disabled veteran or uniform service member status or employment status.
Job Requirements
The basics
* You must have a degree in communications, journalism, international relations, public health or equivalent experience
* At least 2+ years’ experience in advocacy, communications or public relations focusing on a public health issues; knowledge of Family Planning preferred
* You should have excellent organizational and analytical skills, with capacity to work and produce results within a tight timeframe
* Your writing skills should be exemplary, with solid verbal and interpersonal communication skills
* You should have advanced computer skills including using websites for communication purposes, developing graphs and PowerPoint presentations
What would get us excited?
An innovator. You are creative, artistic and able to produce high quality communications materials such as infographics, power point presentations and website content.
STATUS
* Exempt
* Level 7
Must be authorized to work in the United States. N.B. PSI will not consider work visa sponsorship for this position
PSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from qualified individuals regardless of actual or perceived race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, personal appearance, matriculation, political affiliation, family status or responsibilities, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions or breastfeeding, genetic information, amnesty, veteran, special disabled veteran or uniform service member status or employment status.
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