Family Planning and Reproductive Health Strategic Communications and Outreach Intern

 SUSTAINING TECHNICAL AND ANALYTIC RESOURCES

 

INTERN TITLE: Family Planning and Reproductive Health Strategic Communications and Outreach Intern

HOST ORGANIZATION: Policy, Evaluation and Communication Division, Office of Population and Reproductive Health, Bureau of Global Health, United States Agency for International Development 

LOCATION:   Washington, DC

POSITION LEVEL:  Masters Level

INT-P2-070

                                                                                                     

SALARY: $47,632 ($1,832 biweekly)

ANTICIPATED TIMEFRAME: 6 Months

 

STAR PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Sustaining Technical and Analytic Resources (STAR) is a project of the Public Health Institute (PHI) supported by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) Global Health (GH) Bureau. Its purpose is twofold: (1) Through individual fellowships, STAR will help strengthen the capacity of diverse American and low-and-middle-income country (LMIC) health professionals at all levels to make innovative contributions to global health (GH); and (2) STAR will create ground-breaking opportunities for both US and LMIC GH academic institutions and other groups, including professional associations, to create systems for open-access knowledge sharing, resulting in effective partnerships. STAR’s individual and institutional participants are contributing to the development of self-sustaining systems and tools that will produce global citizens with the full spectrum of relevant health competencies. STAR is managed by the Public Health Institute and implemented in partnership with Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH).

 

INTERNSHIP DESCRIPTION

Background:

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) advances and supports voluntary family planning and reproductive health programs in nearly 40 countries across the globe. As the world’s largest family planning bilateral donor, USAID is committed to helping countries meet the family planning and reproductive health needs of their people. USAID supports Family Planning 2020’s goal to reach 120 million more women and girls in the world’s poorest countries with access to voluntary family planning information, contraceptives and services by 2020. USAID is also committed to improving health outcomes for mothers and their children through the Agency’s flagship award, MOMENTUM (Moving Integrated, Quality Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health and Family Planning and Reproductive Health Services to Scale.) MOMENTUM supports USAID’s vision of the Journey to Self-Reliance and includes a greater emphasis on building the capacity, sustainability, and resilience of local partner institutions.

 

Introduction:

The Family Planning and Reproductive Health Strategic Communications Intern (Intern) will support the Bureau for Global Health’s (GH) Office of Population and Reproductive Health (PRH). They will have the opportunity to work alongside USAID’s leading technical experts as well as engage with external partners and stakeholders to promote the Agency’s family planning (FP) and reproductive health (RH) programming and partnerships. PRH communications is a fast-paced and dynamic environment with opportunities to engage with external partners and develop highly visible communication materials.

 

Reporting structure:

The Intern will work closely with Office of Population and Reproductive Health Communications Team and receive technical guidance from the Director of Office of Population and Reproductive Health, who will serve as his/her onsite manager.

 

OUTCOMES

 By the end of the internship, the Intern will have gained experience and exposure to:

• Strategic communications and outreach in a U.S. Government setting.
• Greater understanding of USAID's communication strategy through social impact storytelling.
• Greater understanding of the international development community and how USAID's family planning and reproductive health programming helps build strong, resilient societies in host countries.
• Strengthened skills in relationship-building and collaboration within a complex organizational and partnership structure.

 

Essential Duties:

• Support with developing internal and external communications materials to bring awareness to PRH's portfolio and partnerships.
• Engage with partners to develop a series of human-interest stories and visual communications materials to illustrate complex health concepts for a lay audience.
• Help monitor analytics to track impact in order to inform future communication and outreach efforts, including researching and applying new metrics and developing regular reports.
• Draft Twitter, Facebook and Instagram content for USAID's social media channels, including campaigns for relevant health awareness days.
• Help with content management for the PRH webpage on usaid.gov.
• Support with developing interactive and new visuals to better convey technical family planning and reproductive health content.
• Help draft a wide variety of written communications materials, including but not limited to, memos, one-pagers, fact sheets, press releases, etc.
• Support the development of a knowledge management system for PRH content

 

 

Anticipated learning outcomes:

All STAR Interns will participate in learning activities (*required 10% time) during their internship. By the end of the internship, the Intern will be able to:

• Identify and describe the core attributes of the STAR global health competencies; defined as development practice, cross cultural awareness, communication, capacity strengthening, ethics of public health, health equity, gender equality and global burden of disease.
• Gain exposure to Communications and Family Planning and Reproductive Health through global health programming.
• Apply effective communication skills across a broad network of peers and advisors within global health to support learning and professional development.
• Develop a global health focused career plan with a mentor.

 

INTERNSHIP REQUIREMENTS

Required:

• Currently enrolled masters or other post-bachelor’s degree candidate or completion of such within the past 12 months;
• Demonstrated interest in synthesizing technical health information and developing communications materials that effectively engage a variety of external audiences.
• Strong writing skills and deep understanding of social media platforms and how to use them for engagement.
• Demonstrated experience developing health-related strategic communications, using media analytics platforms to evaluate engagement.
• This position may require travel. Ability to participate in a field experience, which may involve domestic and/or international travel and overnight stays for up to 2 weeks.
• US citizenship or US permanent residency required.

 

 

Additional skills (preferred):

• Some experience working with US Government partner organizations, such as academic institutions, research organizations or country governments.
• Familiarity with USAID or another US Government agency involved in development work.
• Demonstrated experience in writing communications materials.
• Strong social media and web management skills.

 

SALARY AND BENEFITS

The Public Health Institute offers a comprehensive benefits package including learning programs.

 

TO APPLY: https://recruitment.ghstar.org/positionDetail.html?pid=206

All applicants are required to apply for this position through STAR’s online recruitment system at recruitment.ghstar.org, which allows you to create a profile and upload a CV/resume and cover letter. Position will remain open until filled.

 

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