Senior Associate, Communications

Company Description

NASTAD is a leading non-partisan, non-profit association that represents public health officials who administer HIV and hepatitis programs in the U.S. Our mission is to advance the health and dignity of people living with and impacted by HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, and intersecting epidemics by strengthening governmental public health systems and leveraging community partnerships. Our vision is a world committed to ending HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, and intersecting epidemics.

Our work advances NASTAD’s four strategic priorities: 1) Strengthen public health systems for HIV and hepatitis prevention, surveillance, and care; 2) Advance health and racial equity, and stigma elimination, focusing on disparately impacted communities; 3) Implement integrated approaches to address HIV, hepatitis, STIs, harm reduction, and the social determinants of health; 4) Strengthen organizational excellence within NASTAD and its member jurisdictions.

NASTAD employs a diverse team of passionate staff with deep expertise in HIV and hepatitis public health. We center racial justice, anti-racism, and anti-white supremacist principles as we approach and conduct our work.

Job Description

Position Title: Senior Associate, Communications
Reports to: Senior Manager, Communications
Department: Communications
Salary Range: $58,000 - $65,000 and commensurate with experience 
Location: Washington, D.C. or Remote 
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt 

Position Summary

The Senior Associate role will have the exciting opportunity to help NASTAD achieve its mission to advance the health and dignity of people living with and impacted by HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, and intersecting epidemics by ensuring that our highest-impact communications reaches the right audiences at the right time, tells the most important stories, and inspires the best calls to action.  This communications role will focus on topics related to Policy and Legislative Affairs (PLA), ensuring that our PLA team has access to all the best communications practices, tools, and resources.  The Senior Associate will execute core communications activities like copy writing/editing, graphic design, video editing, event planning, and maintaining back-end platforms that support our websites, social media, and email marketing. This role is a mix of strategic content creation and administrative back-end support.  These efforts will ensure that our important work is delivered efficiently, effectively, and inspires action. This role will report to the Senior Manager, Communications with a dotted-line relationship to the Director, Policy & Legislative Affairs.

Essential Duties

• Ensure that the organization’s web-based platforms (e.g. websites, blogs, newsletters, etc.) are always up to date, including coalition sites that are managed by NASTAD.
• Assist in the design, formatting, and publishing processes of NASTAD’s communications products, including membership and board engagement activities
• Draft content for and send out the weekly Policy Newsletter
• Assist with scheduling and tracking Hill visits
• Attend Hill briefings and webinars to fostering collaboration and information sharing, and to create/record content for our communications channels.
• Create, curate, and schedule digital content for our social media platforms
• Draft and/or edit copy for writing projects such as opinion editorials and blogs
• Ensure seamless experiences at conferences and meetings by updating agendas, adding content to mobile apps, coordinating with designers, and helping with AV
• Follow trends and news on emerging technologies, data collection methodologies, and social media tactics

Qualifications

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

• Expert-level writing/editing skills and in creating content for online communities 
• Strong project management, research, and organization skills
• Strong design skills, including document layout, look, & feel, using tools such as Microsoft Office, Canva, and Adobe Creative Suite to create web-ready content
• Ability to balance competing priorities in a fast-paced environment and adapt to rapid and frequent changes

Experience/Education 

• Bachelor’s degree in public policy, journalism, marketing, communications or a related field; or any equivalent combination of training, education and experience that demonstrates the ability to perform the duties of the position
• Four years of full-time digital communications experience is preferred
• At least one year of professional experience in public health or policy is preferred
• At least one year of experience with content management systems (e.g. Drupal), email marketing