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Consultant, MENA
Global Health Strategies
الرياض, KSA
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Senior
2 days ago
Content DevelopmentMedia RelationsProject ManagementEvent ManagementStakeholder EngagementWriting
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About the Role
Global Health Strategies is hiring a Consultant for its MENA region team, based in Riyadh, Dubai, or Cairo. The role involves content development, media relations, project management, event management, and stakeholder engagement in global health communications.
Key Skills for This Role
Content DevelopmentMedia RelationsProject ManagementEvent ManagementStakeholder EngagementWriting
Responsibilities
- Support day to day client management, ensuring responsive, high quality service delivery
- Contribute to business development, including proposals, pitches, and capability decks
- Support engagement with patient advocates, academics, policymakers, and other health ecosystem stakeholders
- Build and maintain a professional network relevant to regional global health priorities
- Support all phases of the project cycle, including scoping, planning, budgeting, execution, and reporting
- Coordinate timelines and deliverables across multiple concurrent workstreams
- Lead end to end delivery of events, including programming, speaker identification and management, vendor coordination, budget tracking, and risk mitigation
- Support flagship convenings, forums, and stakeholder roundtables
- Draft and edit long form pieces including op eds, press releases, and thought leadership articles for clients and spokespeople
- Write strategic documents such as concept notes and business proposals
- Build and maintain relationships with top tier regional and international media, particularly health and science journalists
- Develop and execute media pitches, securing placements in top tier outlets
Requirements
- Minimum 5 years of relevant professional experience at a PR agency, in a public health communications role, or at a health event planning organization
- Proven experience writing and placing media pieces (op eds, press releases, thought leadership)
- Strong project management experience with significant involvement across all phases of the project cycle
- Established relationships with top tier media and health/science journalists
- Proven ability to pitch and place stories in top tier media
- Experience managing events end to end, including programming, speaker management, vendor management, and risk mitigation
- Strong track record writing concept notes, business proposals, and similar strategic documents
- Social media experience, including content creation, campaign planning, and community management
- Fluency in Arabic and English, spoken and written
- Bachelor's degree required
Full Job Posting
Job Title
- Consultant (contract), MENA Region
Location
- Riyadh, Dubai, or Cairo
Team
- Global Health Strategies MENA Region
About GHS
- Global Health Strategies (GHS) is a communications, advocacy, and public affairs consultancy working across global health, life sciences, and public health. Our MENA team supports clients on programme delivery, policy engagement, media relations, and thought leadership across the region.
Role Overview
- We are looking for a consultant to join our MENA team to support a broad range of client accounts and programmes. This is a generalist role spanning content development, media relations, project delivery, event management, and stakeholder engagement. The ideal candidate is a strong writer, an organi
Key Responsibilities
- Support day to day client management, ensuring responsive, high quality service delivery
- Contribute to business development, including proposals, pitches, and capability decks
- Support engagement with patient advocates, academics, policymakers, and other health ecosystem stakeholders
- Build and maintain a professional network relevant to regional global health priorities
- Support all phases of the project cycle, including scoping, planning, budgeting, execution, and reporting
- Coordinate timelines and deliverables across multiple concurrent workstreams
- Lead end to end delivery of events, including programming, speaker identification and management, vendor coordination, budget tracking, and risk mitigation
- Support flagship convenings, forums, and stakeholder roundtables
- Draft and edit long form pieces including op eds, press releases, and thought leadership articles for clients and spokespeople
- Write strategic documents such as concept notes and business proposals
- Build and maintain relationships with top tier regional and international media, particularly health and science journalists
- Develop and execute media pitches, securing placements in top tier outlets
Desired Qualifications and Experience
- Minimum 5 years of relevant professional experience at a PR agency, in a public health communications role, or at a health event planning organization
- Proven experience writing and placing media pieces (op eds, press releases, thought leadership)
- Strong project management experience with significant involvement across all phases of the project cycle
- Established relationships with top tier media and health/science journalists
- Proven ability to pitch and place stories in top tier media
- Experience managing events end to end, including programming, speaker management, vendor management, and risk mitigation
- Strong track record writing concept notes, business proposals, and similar strategic documents
- Social media experience, including content creation, campaign planning, and community management
- Fluency in Arabic and English, spoken and written; French is an advantage
- Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree in public health, communications, or a related field is a plus
Preferred
- Existing relationships with, or prior professional engagement with, patient advocacy groups, academics, policymakers, or other global health stakeholders
- Familiarity with the health, life sciences, or public health sector in the MENA region
Compensation and Contract Type
- Compensation and contract type will be discussed during the interview process.
Equal Opportunity
- GHS is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status.
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