Job Description

The Community and Collaboration Core at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) is seeking a Communications Specialist to join our team. If you have training in health communications and social media, experience in project management and event planning, and a passion for working with diverse stakeholders in collaborative planning, we want to hear from you. If you are effective in project planning and implementation, enthusiastic about learning innovative OTS (?off-the-shelf') software as part of developing infographics, reports, and videos (e.g., Canva, Sway, Adobe Creative Suite), we invite you to apply.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

Support team communications in public health, research dissemination, and training opportunities

• Write social media posts and assist with the promotion of content (e.g., public health messaging, health research promotion) via social media.
• Capture and report social media post analytics.
• Develop, organize, and maintain digital asset file database (photos, videos, infographics, illustrations).
• Coordinate the activities of the Social Innovation Team to support the development and implementation of multimedia health promotion activities.
• Contribute to editing and updating existing digital team web content.
• Assist with the development of print materials, including study and educational materials, into language that is understandable to a lay audience.

Through project management, implement activities and processes to complete deliverables on-time and on-budget

• Develop and maintain process metrics tools and databases to track CCC outreach and community education activities.
• Develop SOP as needed to document effective processes.
• Use OTS software (e.g., Office 365, Qualtrics) for project tracking, collection of data, report generation.
• Create output reports, as needed.

Coordinate education and outreach activities

• Work closely with CCC staff to plan, implement, and evaluate community outreach and education activities that are often held in community-based settings.
• Collaborate with CCC partners to organize education and outreach activities.
• Oversee and implement sustained engagement strategies (e.g., gift cards, birthday and birth cards, reminder calls/texts) to ensure high rates of sustained active participation in CCC activities.
• Identify evidence-based strategies and promising practices to promote sustained community engagement with CCC activities.

Oversee & Contribute to Publication Writing

• Contribute to preparation of presentations for conferences and writing of manuscripts for peer-reviewed journals.

Perform administrative duties, particularly related to project coordination and implementation of activities

• Schedule meetings, record meeting notes, and arrange meeting logistics.
• Coordinate scheduling of student employees.
• Create and maintain documents related to project coordination (policies and procedures manuals, study tracking logs, and study timelines).
• Generate progress reports.

Facilitate payment of community partners

• Assist with other projects and emerging priorities as needed.

Perform other duties as assigned.

Additional knowledge, skills, and abilities

• Ability to engage community-based organizations to organize, plan, and conduct educational and outreach activities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Able to work independently with minimal supervision and manage multiple competing priorities to meet deadlines.
• A commitment to health equity.
• Understand the importance and impact of building community trust in health care and science.
• Understand the practices of cultural humility and be adept at active listening.

• Bachelor's Degree in related field.
• Two years related experience.
• Additional education may substitute for required experience, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.
• Competency with software programs as part of daily activities using Microsoft Office (Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint).

• Experience in managing activities and project deliverables.
• Knowledge of and experience working with communities within the Baltimore metropolitan area.

• Event planning experience.
• Experience in social media communication.

• Basic knowledge of the principles of health behaviors, health disparities, and community outreach and education.
• Proficiency in the Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneDrive, Teams).
• Enthusiastic about learning and/or experience working with innovative OTS software as part of developing infographics, reports, and videos (e.g., Canva, Sway, Adobe Creative Suite).
• Bilingual in English and Spanish is a plus.

Classified Title: Communications Specialist 
Role/Level/Range: ATP/03/PB  
Starting Salary Range: $46,200 - $80,800 Annually ($63,500 targeted; Commensurate with experience) 
Employee group: Full Time 
Schedule: M-F 8:00 am - 4:30 pm 
Exempt Status: Exempt 
Location: Hybrid/School of Medicine Campus 
Department name: SOM ICTR Inst Clin Translational Resrch  
Personnel area: School of Medicine 

About Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University remains committed to its founding principle, that education for all students should be grounded in exploration and discovery. Hopkins students are challenged not just to learn but also to advance learning itself. Critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, and entrepreneurship are all encouraged and nourished in this unique educational environment. After more than 130 years, Johns Hopkins remains a world leader in both teaching and research. Faculty members and their research colleagues at the university's Applied Physics Laboratory have each year since 1979 won Johns Hopkins more federal research and development funding than any other university. The university has nine academic divisions and campuses throughout the Baltimore-Washington area. The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, the Whiting School of Engineering, the School of Education and the Carey Business School are based at the Homewood campus in northern Baltimore. The schools of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing share a campus in east Baltimore with The Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Peabody Institute, a leading professional school of music, is located on Mount Vernon Place in downtown Bal ... timore. The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies is located in Washington's Dupont Circle area.

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