Senior Communications Manager, Health

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We're currently hiring for a Senior Communications Manager, Health to lead a fast-paced contract for a National Institutes of Health (NIH) client. In addition to project leadership, this individual will play an important part in business development for the Social Marketing team.

As a Senior Communications Manager, Health, you will:

• Lead a large, high-profile health communications and media relations project for a federal agency. This will include:
• Performing a range of project management tasks, including budgeting and forecasting, working with internal and government contracts staff, managing project timelines, meetings, deliverables, and work plans
• Leading the ICF project team, including serving as a direct supervisor to three staff who are fully-dedicated to this contract, and working with support teams across ICF collaboratively (e.g., earned media, editing, creative)
• Working collaboratively with client team members, as well as outside consultants/vendors supporting the work
• Developing and executing multichannel communication plans to promote NIH-funded science
• Directing, planning, and creating effective communications approaches across multiple communications touchpoints including media relations, digital media, social media, and special events
• Working collaboratively with NIH employees to propose strategic communications approaches, counsel leadership on strategies and tactics, and develop messaging
• Using evidence-based research to develop public facing communication
• Providing audience-centric support for partnership programs, earned media activities, social media engagement and paid media efforts.
• Identify, lead, and provide strategic support for new business efforts, including proposal and capture efforts.

As a Senior Communications Manager, Health, you will have:

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Communications, Marketing, Public Relations, Advertising, or equilvent experience.
• 8+ years of directly applicable experience, preferably in a communications or PR agency setting and including demonstrated experience working with federal health agencies.
• 2 + years with demonstrated experience managing federal agency contracts.
• US Citizenship (required by Federal government for position)

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience with the NIH a plus.
• Master's degree in Communications, Public Health, or related field is a plus.

Professional Skills

• Project leadership and management experience with federal health communications projects, including experience developing and managing budgets.
• Excellent verbal, written, organizational skills, and ability to interface effectively with all levels of the company and client.
• Ability to work collaboratively with diverse teams and team members.
• Ability to recognize potential communications challenges and develop solutions based on best practices and research.
• Demonstrated experience in new business development, including proposal writing, for federal health agencies.
• Experience in developing/conducting project planning activities to include collecting requirements and defining scope, developing project plans and timelines, and determining resource requirements.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and organizational skills, with ability to prioritize, manage and communicate multiple tasks at a given time.
• Strong project management skills, including an ability to triage multiple priorities and pivot as needs change, as well as a meticulous and detail-oriented approach to processes, timelines and communicating with clients and colleagues.
• Ability to think creatively (independently or in a group setting) and provide unique solutions and rationale for solutions to clients' communications challenges/problems.
• Ability to quickly understand problems, synthesize large amounts of information, and provide succinct recommendations that tie back to overall account communication strategies and tactics.
• Ability to