Research Communications Assistant, Strategic Initiatives
Child Trends has an opening for a communications assistant to work in our Strategic Initiatives area as part of experienced teams focused on client communications and research on Hispanic families. This position will focus heavily on providing communications support to several large projects and translating and disseminating research findings through digital marketing.
Typical Responsibilities and Duties
- Distills key research findings into engaging, succinct messages for websites, e-newsletters, and social media platforms.
- Designs and formats draft communications materials such as e-newsletters, social media images, and web content.
- Updates social media channels, including but not limited to Twitter and YouTube.
- Creates graphics for publications, social media, websites, and presentations, such as infographics, graphs, and bar charts.
- Develops and maintains stakeholder outreach lists, e-newsletter subscriber lists, and editorial calendars.
- Remediates documents to meet federal accessibility requirements.
- Tracks and reports website, e-newsletter, and social media metrics.
- Develops creative ideas for dissemination strategies and tactics.
- Culls and summarizes media mentions.
- Conducts website maintenance, including posting approved content and editing web text and graphics.
- Completes fact and citation checks on journal articles, research reports, website content, and other publications.
- Supports webinar and video production, editing, and closed captioning.
- Assists with virtual and eventually, in-person event planning, including managing attendee lists and invitations, processing travel reimbursements, and preparing materials.
Qualifications
- B.A. or B.S. in communications, public policy, public health, sociology, economics, or related field.
- Coursework in qualitative or quantitative research methods and statistics.
- 1-2 years of relevant experience preferred.
- Interest in topics related to Latino children and families, racial/ethnic disparities, reproductive health, and adolescent health.
- Experience with social media and digital platforms, including but not limited to Twitter, Constant Contact, Mail Chimp, Salesforce, YouTube, blogs, video, or podcasts.
- Knowledge of, and experience applying, accessibility guidelines (e.g., Section 508, WCAG 2.1) a plus.
- Excellent organizational, writing skills, and attention to detail.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office, including PowerPoint.
- Interest in website development and management. Understanding of Google Analytics, HTML, WordPress, or Drupal helpful but not required.
- Fluency in Spanish a plus.
- Must be a motivated and detail-oriented worker, with excellent grades.
How to Apply:
Please follow the “apply” link to submit your application. When asked by the system to upload resume, please upload one document that includes your resume, cover letter, transcripts, a writing sample and contact information for three professional references. Materials must be combined into one document in order to be uploaded. If you have any difficulties with this process please email the requested materials to recruitment (at) childtrends.org and make sure to reference the position in the subject line. No phone calls please!