Senior Associate Director, Campaigns & Advocacy (Healthcare & Legislative Affairs)

APCO
Washington
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Healthcare (Clinical, Medical, Wellness)Experience: 8-12 yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Communication","Writing","Stakeholder engagement","Project management","Leadership"]

Mid-level public affairs professional joining APCO’s Campaigns & Advocacy practice in Washington, D.C. You will lead issue advocacy campaigns, coalition building, stakeholder engagement, and healthcare policy communications for high-profile clients. The role requires strong writing, project management, and the ability to manage multiple work streams across traditional and digital channels, with opportunities to contribute to business development.

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Senior Associate Director, Campaigns & Advocacy (Healthcare & Legislative Affairs)

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Job Summary

Mid-level public affairs professional joining APCO’s Campaigns & Advocacy practice in Washington, D.C. You will lead issue advocacy campaigns, coalition building, stakeholder engagement, and healthcare policy communications for high-profile clients. The role requires strong writing, project management, and the ability to manage multiple work streams across traditional and digital channels, with opportunities to contribute to business development.
Location: Washington
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Healthcare (Clinical, Medical, Wellness)
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Support and implement a wide range of strategic communication and issue advocacy campaigns for our high profile, globally-recognized clients
  • •Support the design and implementation of multi-faceted, integrated communications and issue campaigns to position client issues and priorities with key audiences that may include elected officials, media, consumers and external and internal stakeholders
  • •Create effective messages and produce and edit high-quality written deliverables, such as issue backgrounders, press materials, messaging toolkits, and social media content often under tight deadlines
  • •Develop compelling advocacy communications and content to convey complex policy issues — particularly in healthcare — to the general public
  • •Practical experience with coalition building and management efforts including stakeholder mapping, recruitment, engagement, and activation; state level advocacy engagement with field team management skills strongly preferred
  • •Support media relations efforts including cultivating relationships with media (national, state, and local), drafting op-eds and talking points, preparing clients for speaking opportunities, organizing press conferences, and more
  • •Monitor and decipher developments in key client issue areas — with a focus on healthcare policy and congressional activity — and flag opportunities for further client engagement
  • •Participate in business development activities including writing proposals and developing pitch decks

Key Requirements

  • •8-12 years of experience in public affairs, issue advocacy campaigns, earned media, and/or political campaigns
  • •Experience working with congressional healthcare committees (e.g., Senate Finance Committee, Senate HELP Committee, House Energy & Commerce Committee) is strongly preferred
  • •Bachelor's degree from an accredited university
  • •Solid project management experience with the ability to manage multiple client initiatives in a fast-paced environment
  • •Excellent client and interpersonal skills; ability to communicate effectively by phone, email, and in-person
Experience:8-12 yearsPublic affairsHealthcareAdvocacyPolicyCampaigns
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:CommunicationWritingStakeholder engagementProject managementLeadership
Languages:English

Company Brief

APCO
Global communications consultancy offering public affairs, strategic communications, crisis management, and stakeholder engagement services to corporations, governments, and nonprofits across sectors and regions.
Industry: Consulting
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Established Company
Funding: Bootstrapped
Headquarters: Washington, D.C., United States
Founded: 1984
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