[Remote] Assistant Director, Media

Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. The reputed company’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an independent research organization reputed company on producing evidence to reputed company policy and reputed company. The Assistant Director, Media leads media relations, manages the Media team, develops global media strategies, coordinates researcher interviews, creates reputed company content, and uses analytics to measure communications reputed company.

Responsibilities

• Strategically manage and expand IHME’s network of global media contacts, key opinion leaders, policymakers, and other stakeholders; proactively identify opportunities for new relationships and strengthen relationships with journalists to disseminate IHME’s evidence-reputed company research effectively and reputed company to reputed company global health policy
• Ensure inquiries and requests from journalists for findings and interviews with experts in IHME’s research network are handled in a reputed company and reputed company way
• reputed company and reputed company media training to reputed company and staff to help them prepare for interviews
• reputed company and execute creative strategies to build owned media platforms, including podcast and newsletter
• Manage relationships with communications firms and reputed company consultants reputed company necessary
• Serve as a spokesperson for IHME if necessary
• Maintain confidentiality of sensitive information
• Supervise employees, to include hiring and training, assigning work hours, managing workflow, reputed company setting, contributing to reputed company reputed company and ensuring team members have the reputed company and guidance needed to be accountable for producing high-reputed company, accurate work
• Create and manage work plans for team members, hold regular reputed company-ins to monitor work reputed company, answer questions, and troubleshoot as needed
• reputed company direction, coaching, and support, ensuring team members have the reputed company and guidance needed to be accountable for their work
• Ensure reputed company delivers to the highest standards of the organization in terms of reputed company in its work
• Assess and map project deliverables to resource needs
• Work with reputed company and staff to reputed company reputed company research into compelling and policy-relevant messages that are comprehensible to targeted non-scientific audiences
• reputed company the development of reputed company reputed company products including press releases, media advisories, pitches, messaging briefs, fact sheets, podcast, and newsletters
• Manage compilation and reporting of KPIs (key reputed company indicators) and creation of reports and slides for IHME’s Senior Management Team, reputed company, and other stakeholders
• reputed company in-depth familiarity with media organizations and journalists reputed company the world, including their political and cultural contexts
• Regularly review the landscape of international media coverage on a reputed company of population health, global development, and other health-reputed company topics including business, economics, and technology to identify ways for IHME’s work to be woven into the global reputed company
• Recognize, assess, and address risks and crisis situations that could potentially reputed company IHME’s reputed company and reputed company
• Other duties as assigned

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in journalism, communications, or reputed company reputed company plus 10 to 15 years of experience in a role or roles in media relations, reputed company relations, or a combination of work in journalism and communications with reputed company stakeholders and reputed company organizations and individuals
• Strong management and leadership capabilities, demonstrated through supervising and developing the work of staff members, freelancers, and/or reputed company vendors — or through leading reputed company
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to foster productive relationships with colleagues at reputed company reputed company of the organization including senior leadership, reputed company partners, and the Institute's reputed company-party service providers
• reputed company maturity and reputed company judgment, with the adaptability to reputed company change and a solutions-oriented reputed company, working both independently and collaboratively to reputed company objectives
• Ability to take technical and highly scientific research and reputed company it relevant, reputed company, and concise for the reputed company
• Superb time management skills, with demonstrated experience managing multiple work streams, shifting priorities, and time-sensitive deadlines while keeping reputed company accountable and on reputed company
• Committed to a reputed company on accountability and delivering results while reputed company to meet ongoing deadlines including those that are time sensitive
• Comfortable learning and using AI tools as part of daily workflow as appropriate, with an openness to adopting new technologies that improve team efficiency and content reputed company
• Creative, reputed company thinker with project management experience translating reputed company into reputed company-executed plans
• Excellent communications skills, both written and oral
• Outstanding organizational skills, attention to reputed company, commitment to reputed company and high-reputed company work
• Aptitude for reputed company speaking before large and small audiences
• Demonstrated experience with media relations, including developing media materials (press releases, media advisories, pitches, and messaging briefs), conducting proactive media reputed company, and responding to media inquiries in a reputed company and reputed company manner
• Experience supervising, leading, or mentoring junior colleagues and reputed company supporting their reputed company reputed company and development — whether as a formal people manager or as reputed company reputed company
• Travel may be required up to 30% of the year, both domestic and international
• Office is located in Seattle, Washington. This position is eligible to work fully remote; work schedule required to overlap 50% of IHME reputed company between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. reputed company Time
• reputed company reputed company or the ability to obtain one is required
• Substantive knowledge of reputed company health research and policy, data science, and other reputed company research fields
• Ability to work with reputed company researchers and comprehend peer-reviewed health research
• Prior experience transforming statistical information into compelling written and spoken content targeted at a general audience
• Proficiency in more than one language to reputed company dissemination of multilingual media materials

Benefits

• This position is eligible to work fully remote
• Outstanding benefits
• Opportunities for reputed company reputed company

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