Health Communications Specialist III

at  Chenega Corporation

Overview:
Come join a company that strives for Extraordinary People and Exceptional Performance! Chenega Enterprise Systems & Solutions, LLC, a Chenega Professional Services’ company, is looking for a Health Communications Specialist III to support the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (DHQP), Office of the Director (OD). This person will provide Health Communications and Digital Media Support.
Our company offers employees the opportunity to join a team where there is a robust employee benefits program, management engagement, quality leadership, an atmosphere of teamwork, recognition for performance, and promotion opportunities. We actively strive to channel our highly engaged employee’s knowledge, critical thinking, innovative solutions for our clients.

Responsibilities:

• Write messages and materials related to public health topics. Materials should employ plain language and risk communications principles. These materials could include website content, fact sheets, FAQs, talking points for clinicians, infographics, social media messaging, video storyboards and content for patients and their families.
• Coordinate web or social media content on various CDC websites, including CDC’s antibiotic stewardship webpages, CDC’s antibiotic resistance webpages, CDC’s infectious disease websites, and other topic-specific webpages, and agency and center social media profiles. Ensure that all CDC guidelines for social media and clearance are followed.
• Create content for clinicians and develop materials to provide to patients or their family members to educate them about public health topics.
• Coordinate with subject matter experts, as well as communications professionals from other Divisions and Centers to share information and ensure effective efforts and successful collaboration. Maintain those partnerships.
• Work with CDC graphics staff to create compelling images (infographics) that could be used for presentations, reports, website content, social media outreach, etc.
• Assure the accuracy and consistency of CDC’s messages and materials.
• Coordinate major announcements or awareness efforts; collaborate with key communications, web, and media staff to successfully coordinate the dissemination.
• Proactively identify, research, and resolve problems or issues; participate in team strategy session to discuss solutions. Proactively recommend updated strategies to improve analysis tactics and outreach efforts.
• Participate in meetings as representative of the DHQP communications team and provides meeting updates/summary to relevant team members.
• Assist with communications-related research and coordination of gathering, organizing, and editing metrics. Analyze and extrapolate solutions after reviewing data.

Qualifications:

• Four (4) to seven (7) years of relevant, direct comparable or similar work experience.
• Completed Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience to substitute.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Computer skills to include but not limited to, skills in operating Microsoft Office software, with emphasis on Word, Excel, Power Point, and Outlook as well as SharePoint.
• Skills in managing and prioritizing multiple assignments with strict deadlines and ability to coordinate efforts among many offices.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (both oral and written).
• Expertise to prepare and present information/data via oral briefing(s) and/or by written reports

Final salary determination based on skill-set, qualifications, and approved funding.
Many of our jobs come with great benefits – Some offerings are dependent upon the role, work schedule, or location, and may include the following:

• Write messages and materials related to public health topics. Materials should employ plain language and risk communications principles. These materials could include website content, fact sheets, FAQs, talking points for clinicians, infographics, social media messaging, video storyboards and content for patients and their families.
• Coordinate web or social media content on various CDC websites, including CDC’s antibiotic stewardship webpages, CDC’s antibiotic resistance webpages, CDC’s infectious disease websites, and other topic-specific webpages, and agency and center social media profiles. Ensure that all CDC guidelines for social media and clearance are followed.
• Create content for clinicians and develop materials to provide to patients or their family members to educate them about public health topics.
• Coordinate with subject matter experts, as well as communications professionals from other Divisions and Centers to share information and ensure effective efforts and successful collaboration. Maintain those partnerships.
• Work with CDC graphics staff to create compelling images (infographics) that could be used for presentations, reports, website content, social media outreach, etc.
• Assure the accuracy and consistency of CDC’s messages and materials.
• Coordinate major announcements or awareness efforts; collaborate with key communications, web, and media staff to successfully coordinate the dissemination.
• Proactively identify, research, and resolve problems or issues; participate in team strategy session to discuss solutions. Proactively recommend updated strategies to improve analysis tactics and outreach efforts.
• Participate in meetings as representative of the DHQP communications team and provides meeting updates/summary to relevant team members.
• Assist with communications-related research and coordination of gathering, organizing, and editing metrics. Analyze and extrapolate solutions after reviewing data