Communications Specialist
Washington, DC
Grantmakers In Health
Date Posted: 2/12/2025
If you are:
Passionate about issues related to health equity and social justice, access to quality care, and community engagement and empowerment.
A talented professional with experience writing communications content, including blog posts, email newsletters, event announcements, press releases, and social media posts.
A strong collaborator used to working with a wide range of constituents-both internal and external.
An avid consumer of news from a variety of outlets, particularly related to the intersection of health and public policy.
Then we have the perfect opportunity for you!
Grantmakers In Health (GIH) is looking for a Communications Specialist to join our team. This position is responsible for working with the Communications Director to develop GIH digital and print content. Contribute to the execution of GIH's media outreach strategy, helping to secure media coverage of GIH's experts, health and philanthropy policy priorities, and programmatic activities. Partner with the CRM and Website Administrator in updating and supporting the GIH database. Provide on-the-ground communications coverage and support at marquee events including the GIH Annual Conference, GIH Health Policy Exchange, and Terrance Keenan Institute.
We are looking for someone with:
At least three years of professional experience coordinating nonprofit, government agency, or foundation communications or policy-related field, bachelor's degree preferred.
Communications work experience in a nonprofit, government agency, or foundation environment.
Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
Strong editorial and proofreading skills; familiarity with Chicago or AP styles.
Professional social media management experience, with an understanding of Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook and proficiency using Buffer, Hootsuite, Sprout Social, or similar social media scheduling platform.
Website content creation using a CMS such as WordPress or Drupal.
Email marketing platforms, such as Mail Chimp, Constant Contact, or ClickDimensions.
Familiarity with Adobe Creative Cloud, especially Photoshop and InDesign, and Microsoft Office and/or Google Suite.
Who we are:
GIH is a nonprofit, educational organization dedicated to helping foundations and corporate giving programs improve the health of all people. Our mission is to foster communication and collaboration among grantmakers and others, and to help strengthen the grantmaking community's knowledge, skills, and effectiveness.
What a Communications Specialist does:
A normal day at GIH will find you authoring and building website content, editing email newsletters and standalone mailings, managing GIH's social media channels, and assisting in the creation and production of the GIH Bulletin. You will also develop and maintain GIH media lists, respond to inquiries from the press, and draft media backgrounders to brief senior staff and GIH experts for interviews with the press. You will partner with the CRM and Website Administrator to track changes to constituent and organizational information and update GIH's database. Several times during the year you may find yourself providing on-the-ground communications coverage of our annual conference sessions on our social media channels.
What we offer:
A competitive salary: $55,000 - $75,000, based on experience.
Paid vacation, personal, and sick leave at the beginning of each year to encourage work life balance and a generous benefits package.
Medical, dental, and vision insurance along with voluntary life, short-term, and long-term disability insurance.
The option to participate in our Health Care, Dependent Care, and transit flexible spending accounts, and to purchase supplemental insurance such as accident or hospital insurance through Aflac.
Eligibility to participate in our retirement plan upon hire, including a matching contribution and, after one year of employment, a generous discretionary contribution.
Hybrid work environment: This position is based at GIH's office in Washington, DC. Employees are expected to be in the office three days per week, with Tuesdays being required for all staff.
To Apply:
To indicate your interest in this position, please submit the following information:
(Please include your last name in all filenames when uploading materials. You should use this format: CommSpec.LastName.CoverLtr.Resume):
Cover letter.
Resume.
At least 2 supervisory references and 1 professional colleague reference (name, title, company name and phone number and email).
Three professional writing samples. Note: Please do not submit school research papers as writing samples.
Please note:
Resumes without cover letters or writing samples will not be reviewed.
Emails and phone calls to staff regarding this job posting are not accepted.
