Consultant, EPR Communications, Global Health Programs
About The Position
PATH’s Epidemic Preparedness and Response (EPR) team is seeking a communications consultant to translate complex technical work and program achievements into clear, compelling materials for donors, partners, policymakers, and broader public health audiences. The consultant will work with EPR leadership and technical teams and coordinate with PATH communications colleagues to ensure consistency with PATH’s brand and external publication processes. The period of performance is November 9 through December 31, 2026. Applicants should include a brief cover letter with their daily rate and links to relevant writing samples. Illustrative deliverables, to be finalized in the workplan, include updated capability materials on outbreak response, a country case study, and integrated disease surveillance; approximately two to three drafts of externally oriented PATH.org blog posts or feature stories prepared for internal editorial review; and updated donor-facing technical and business-development collateral covering integrated disease surveillance, outbreak response, and One Health.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and at least 3 years of professional experience in public health, global health, science, or nonprofit communications.
- Demonstrated experience developing compelling written materials for external stakeholders, including funders, policymakers, practitioners, or general audiences.
- Working knowledge of infectious disease surveillance, outbreak preparedness and response, health security, or One Health, and ability to accurately interpret technical public health concepts.
- Excellent English writing, interviewing, synthesis, editing, and proofreading skills, with a portfolio demonstrating succinct and accessible communications.
- Ability to independently manage multiple deliverables, integrate feedback from technical reviewers, and meet agreed deadlines.
- Legal authorization to work in the United States.
Nice To Haves
- Prior experience writing donor-facing materials for international development or global health organizations and/or published website articles or blogs.
- Experience communicating results from country-level public health programs, working with ministries of health or multisectoral partners, or supporting proposal/business-development efforts.
- Fluency in French.
Responsibilities
- Assess existing EPR communications materials and work with EPR leadership to identify priority gaps, audiences, and key messages across outbreak response, integrated disease surveillance, and One Health.
- Develop concise, donor-facing capability briefs, program summaries, and talking points describing PATH’s outbreak preparedness and response expertise, implementation approaches, and results, using concrete country and project examples.
- Draft external thought-leadership and storytelling content, including blog posts for PATH.org, in collaboration with technical authors and PATH communications and editorial teams.
- Review, refresh, and copy-edit existing donor-facing communications, including capability statements, slide presentations, project profiles, and other business-development materials related to integrated disease surveillance, outbreak response, and/or One Health.
- Adapt technical content for different audiences while maintaining accurate, accessible, engaging language and a consistent narrative across EPR materials.
- Manage drafts, review cycles, and revisions with EPR and PATH communications staff, ensuring products follow PATH’s brand, editorial, safeguarding, and publication requirements.
- Participate in periodic progress check-ins during US East Coast working hours, 8 a.m.–4 p.m. ET.
