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At USP, we believe that scientific excellence is driven by a commitment to fairness, integrity, and global collaboration. This belief is embedded in our core value of Passion for Quality and is demonstrated through the contributions of more than 1,300 professionals across twenty global locations, working to strengthen the supply of safe, high-quality medicines worldwide.\nAt USP, we value inclusive scientific collaboration and recognize that attracting diverse expertise strengthens our ability to develop trusted public health standards. We foster an organizational culture that supports equitable access to mentorship, professional development, and leadership opportunities. Our partnerships, standards, and research reflect our belief that ensuring broad participation in scientific leadership results in stronger, more impactful outcomes for global health.\nUSP is proud to be an equal employment opportunity employer (EEOE) and is committed to ensuring fair, merit-based selection processes that enable the best scientific minds-regardless of background-to contribute to advancing public health solutions worldwide. We provide reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities and uphold policies that create an inclusive and collaborative work environment.\nBrief Job Overview\nThe External Engagement Associate supports the execution of external engagement, communications, and stakeholder outreach activities across USP’s Global Health and Manufacturing Services (GHMS) portfolio. This role plays a critical coordination function across events, communications products, social media, and stakeholder engagement efforts-helping ensure high-quality, timely delivery of external-facing activities.\nWorking under the supervision of the Director, External Engagement, the Associate contributes to amplifying USP’s thought leadership, strengthening partner engagement, and supporting priority visibility and influence opportunities. This is an individual contributor role that combines strong writing and communications, coordination, and project management responsibilities.\nHow will YOU create impact here at USP?\nAs part of our mission to advance scientific rigor and public health standards, you will play a vital role in increasing global access to high-quality medicines through public standards and related programs. USP prioritizes scientific integrity, regulatory excellence, and evidence-based decision-making to ensure health systems worldwide can rely on strong, tested, and globally relevant quality standards.\nAdditionally, USP’s People and Culture division, in partnership with the Equity Office, invests in leadership and workforce development to equip all employees with the skills to create high-performing, inclusive teams. This includes training in equitable management practices and tools to promote engaged, collaborative, and results-driven work environments.\nThe External Engagement Associate has the following responsibilities:\nExternal Engagement & Stakeholder Management Support:\nMaintain stakeholder trackers, engagement calendars, and coordination tools.\nConduct research on organizations, events, and engagement opportunities to inform team planning.\nPrepare briefing notes, background materials, presentations, talking points, and summaries for meetings and engagements.\nEvents & Convenings:\nProvide coordination and logistical support for conferences, webinars, roundtables, and other events including development, issuance, and tracking of invitations, development of event materials, onsite logistics, and other tasks as required.\nAssist in development of invitations, agendas, speaker briefs, run-of-show materials, and post-event summaries.\nConduct event scanning for upcoming engagement opportunities and support event planning workflows and strategy.\nCoordinate internal review and approval processes for event sponsorships and conference submissions.\nCommunications & Content Development:\nDraft and support development of communications materials including email invitations, newsletters, fact sheets, web content, talking points, and short-form content.\nSupport development, review, and dissemination of communications collateral and thought leadership products.\nCoordinate editorial, design, and print processes and ensure timely delivery of high-quality materials aligned with USP standards.\nSocial Media & Digital Engagement:\nDraft social media content in support of GHMS priorities.\nMaintain editorial calendars and support execution of digital campaigns.\nTrack and compile performance metrics for social media and digital activities.\nMonitor relevant social channels and accounts for developments, engagement opportunities, and external trends.\nOperational & Team Support:\nManage vendor selection, coordination, contracts, and invoicing processes.\nUpdate and maintain templates, trackers, and team resources including SharePoint and Teams sites and project management tools.\nWho is USP Looking For?\nThe successful candidate will have a demonstrated understanding of our mission, commitment to excellence through inclusive and equitable behaviors and practices, ability to quickly build credibility with stakeholders, along with the following competencies and experience:\nBachelor’s degree in communications, public health, international affairs, public policy, marketing, or related field.\n2-4 years of professional experience in communications, stakeholder engagement, event coordination, or related areas.\nStrong writing, editing, and organizational skills.\nAbility to manage multiple tasks and deadlines with keen attention to detail.\nStrong interpersonal skills and ability to work across teams in a matrixed environment.\nAbility to synthesize and translate complex information into clear, audience-appropriate content.\nAdditional Desired Preferences\nExperience in global health, pharmaceutical industry, international development, and/or nonprofit environments.\nDemonstrated experience supporting events, convenings, or stakeholder engagement initiatives.\nExperience with social media, analytics and content development platforms and tools such as such as Constant Contact, Marketo, Canva, Adobe Creative Cloud, Hootsuite, or similar platforms.\nExperience leveraging AI to enhance communications effectiveness by supporting content development, optimizing messaging for target audiences, and improving efficiency in drafting, editing, and dissemination workflows.\nSupervisory Responsibilities\nNone, this is an individual contributor role.\nBenefits\nUSP provides the benefits to protect yourself and your family today and tomorrow. 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