The Virchow Foundation in Berlin is seeking a full-time Communication & Partnerships Manager (m/f/d) to join their team.
Start date as soon as possible.

Fluency in both German and English is essential for this position

ABOUT THE VIRCHOW FOUNDATION
The Virchow Foundation is an independent non-profit foundation under civic law headquartered in Berlin, which strives to promote and anchor awareness of global health issues, both nationally and internationally, and to contribute to the improvement of health worldwide. Key pillars of the Foundation’s activities include the awarding of the Virchow Prize and the Global Health Policy Lab.
The highly endowed and internationally prestigious Virchow Prize granted by the Virchow Foundation recognizes and celebrates groundbreaking research, major innovations and outstanding contributions with significant impact. With this award, stellar achievements “towards health for all” and hence for the planet’s liveability are honoured.
The ‘Global Health Policy Lab’ (GHPL) aims to be the leading AI-enabled platform designed for health policy-making, providing comprehensive tools for accessing, comparing, and generating evidence-driven health policies, supported by an inter-disciplinary team of global health, policy and technology experts.

ABOUT THE ROLE
Communications – Virchow Foundation
- Translate promotional content to the Virchow Foundation newsletter and send out to subscribers and partners.
- Stay up to date on global health news and trends and translating into creative social content.
- Support in the development of press releases and work with external colleagues to disseminate to targeted media contacts and partners.
- Work with external partners and collaborators in developing original content as well as fostering new relationships to find success stories or activities relevant to our audience.
- Contribute actively towards the management of key partnerships and relations with stakeholders.
- Material preparation and award ceremony support; serve as the link between the Foundation and relevant partners on external communications and graphic design topics.
- Develop the VF newsletter, utilizing CRM Microsoft Dynamics platform to send out mass communications and marketing campaigns.
- Maintain the VF website.

Social Media – Virchow Foundation
- Support the creation and implementation of pre-event campaigns, drawing attention to the upcoming Virchow Prize Ceremony and key partnership activities.
- Creating, maintaining, and updating social media calendars.
- Take ownership and management of all social media channels (Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube) to increase visibility and brand awareness.
- Planning, developing, and managing original and relevant content for target audiences across all social media channels.

Communications – Global Health Policy Lab
- Co-develop a communications strategy with the Executive Director and wider GHPL collaborative, including an evaluation of communications channels, stakeholder mapping, calendar of events, launch campaign for key events or outputs, social media posts, media
engagement.
- Lead the further development and updating of the GHPL website including proposals for content for news/resources page and explanatory video, consideration for logo graphic.
- Organising, structuring and developing comms materials (text, graphics, photos, video, logos, templates).
- Take ownership and management of all social media to increase visibility and brand awareness.
- Contribute actively towards the management of key partnerships and relations with stakeholders.

Events & Project Management
- Support with event and project management around key VF & GHPL events, especially leading up to the annual Virchow Prize award ceremony.