Analyst, Communications

Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

ARBP Communications 
Support Palladium’s ARBP Communications team in a variety of communication, administrative, and logistics tasks

• Coordinate with ARBP portfolio leads, project directors, and project communications’ contacts on a regular basis about project communications needs; including assistance with the documentation of project results by developing PowerPoints, fact sheets, and other marketing material
• Capture, write, and share practice-wide updates through a variety of channels, including meetings, email, and other internal and external platforms, and using a variety of tools including PowerPoints and video clips
• Develop marketing materials to feature ARBP priority themes and capabilities
• Coordinate ARBP-wide and PFG technical conference participation, including tracking and communication conference deadlines, abstract review and submissions and preparation of conference materials
• Coordinate with the Global Marketing and Communications Team on updates for newsletters, social media, and ad-hoc requests

Health Policy, Financing, and Governance Portfolio

• Provide support to the PFG portfolio lead, project directors, and chiefs of party on communications-specific requests related to report and brief templates, branding and photography
• Curate content, write, and edit a monthly internal update for PFG staff
• Develop the agenda, secure speakers, and coordinate logistics for monthly PFG meetings
• Coordinate hiring and administration of editing, design, and translation consultants; writing consultant agreements with scopes of work and payment plans; review consultant/vendor invoices for accuracy and process for payment; track contractual agreements; liaise with technical staff on vendor agreements
• Execute logistics for PFG events such as internal lunch-and-learns and ad hoc events by scheduling, reserving and both setting and cleaning up meeting rooms, sending invitations and getting guest counts, ordering and handling logistics for catering, coordinating speakers and/or guest logistics, and taking and disseminating notes
• Regularly update PFG portfolio PowerPoints, website text, and other internal and external communication materials
• Respond to requests for PFG portfolio project information and capabilities from business development teams
• Support PFG business development activities including for upcoming and live bids, such as drafting capability statements, research and writing past-performance statements, collecting and editing CVs, conducting pipeline research for upcoming bids
• Support the PROPEL Health project in surge support, which may include: project delivery support, research, Workplan development, support to the Technical Leadership Team
• Support orientation schedules for new hires into the PFG portfolio

Key Competencies Required:

• Flexibility and ability to handle multiple tasks and work collaboratively with others
• Able to work independently in a fast-paced organization by prioritizing and managing multiple priorities
• Strong attention to detail and follow-through
• Ability to interact effectively with all levels of internal and external clients
• Fluency and excellent oral and written communication skills in English
• Strong computer skills in Power Point, Word, and Excel and additional programs for video editing and graphic design
• Experience using Microsoft Outlook, Teams, and other meeting/online conferencing tools preferred

Professional Expertise/Competencies Preferred:

• Second language proficiency preferred.
• International experience in developing country setting preferred.