Communications Officer

About the Foundation

The Access to Medicine Foundation is an independent non-profit organisation, based in Amsterdam, that seeks to transform the global healthcare ecosystem by motivating and mobilising companies to expand access to their essential healthcare products in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The core pillar of our work is analysing how pharmaceutical companies and other essential healthcare companies currently address the affordability and accessibility of their products in these countries, and highlighting gaps, best practices and opportunities. To translate our research into real-world change, we engage with a wide network of global health stakeholders, including pharmaceutical companies, governments, international agencies such as the United Nations and World Health Organisation, media, and investors.

Communications at the Foundation

You will be joining our Communications team, reporting to the Head of Communications. Our teamwork style is highly collaborative, yet with clear ownership of different streams and projects. We work closely with colleagues at all levels of the organisation, including the executive team and members of the engagement and research teams. The Communications team plays a central role within the Foundation.

Your main tasks and responsibilities

• Campaign execution: Support the development and implementation of high impact communication campaigns particularly around the launch of key publications and initiatives. This includes media packs, press coordination and targeted dissemination strategies to ensure visibility and engagement across our target audiences.

• Content creation and visual storytelling: Plan and develop bold, visually compelling communication materials – toolkits, infographics, media packs and event related tools and branding.

• Brand management: Contribute to strengthening the Foundation’s brand and positioning by ensuring our voice and impact are clearly communicated to stakeholders and global audiences. Maintain consistent application of our house style and visual identity across all materials. This includes developing branded templates, reviewing documents and supporting with events and cross-team communication needs.

• Comms asset management: Maintain and curate the Foundation’s communications asset library including PDFs, images (photo database), presentations, logos, targeted media lists, etc. Track media coverage, maintain archives and collate analytics and metrics.

• Website management and digital analytics: Support ongoing updates to the Foundation’s website, with a focus on clarity, and engagement. Contribute to writing and optimising content for events, and media pages.

These core streams provide a starting point for this role. There will also be plenty of opportunities for you to take ownership and get the ball rolling on new communications activities and projects generated by our engagement teams and outreach work.

Experience and qualifications

• Essential: 2-3 years’ experience in communications, ideally within the global health landscape

• Essential: Experience of planning and producing communications tools that meet a set house style, including speaker slides and social tools

• Essential: Excellent at managing ongoing processes and recurrent tasks, alongside one-off tasks and projects, often working in multiple project teams at the same time (matrix organisation)

• Proficiency in digital tools like CMS, Adobe Suit, Canva, Mailchimp, Microsoft Word, PPT

• Pro-active and results-driven, with a pragmatic, hands-on mentality

• Agile and resilient: able to work to multiple deadlines and flag potential roadblocks and/or bottlenecks before they become urgent

• Highly proficient in English.

The position will be based in Amsterdam and a valid work permit to work in the Netherlands that does not require future sponsorship is required.

What we offer you

• A dynamic, innovative, working environment with an international team based in our Amsterdam office.

• Hybrid options available: 2-3 days per week in our office in Amsterdam, with the option to work from your home in the Netherlands on the remaining days. (This position is not available for remote working in a country outside the Netherlands – there will be no compensation for relocation costs).

• The opportunity to help achieve effective and impactful communications streams, with space to be creative and propose new solutions.

• Benefits include 25 holidays on an annual basis based on a fulltime employment, mandatory company pension scheme, holiday allowance and reimbursement of public transport to work (if living beyond 10km from the office).

Get a sense of how our insights are picked up by the media and a look at some of the most recent events we have convened.

 How to apply:

Interested in this exciting opportunity? Please send the following documents to Mrs. Mireille Deen at recruitment@accesstomedicinefoundation.org:

• Your cover letter with your motivation on why you would like to join the Access to Medicine Foundation and why you are a good fit for this role;

• A brief summary of recent projects, including your contribution to them, that illustrate how you fit the profile described under the heading “What we are looking for”, supported by evidence as far as possible;

• Your resume, and;

• The contact details of two references (e-mail address and/or phone number).

The applications will not be considered unless they are complete with all supporting documentation provided.