Strategic Advisor Project Communication

Project overview

You will bring the results of subsidy programs to the attention of scientists, medical professionals, policymakers, patient organizations, and other target groups. As a strategic advisor for project communication, you will also be deployable as a senior copywriter.

ZonMw programs and finances research and innovation in health, care, and welfare. ZonMw also stimulates knowledge infrastructures and the use of developed knowledge. ZonMw works closely with a broad group of partners: policymakers, citizens and people with lived experience, prevention, care, and welfare professionals, researchers, educators, and entrepreneurs.

ZonMw focuses on 3 core activities: programming and financing, connecting and channeling, and signaling and agenda-setting. Programs in the field of prevention, care, and health play a central role in this. In addition to departments (clusters) that deal with subsidy programs in the field of healthcare research, ZonMw also has a number of departments that specifically focus on (bio)medical scientific research, such as medicinal products, fundamental research, therapy development, or life sciences & health.

• You advise as a sparring partner on the communication approach for projects.
• You guide projects, together with content specialists, such as program texts, policy plans, reports, and evaluations.
• You write texts in which you make scientific information accessible to different target groups.
• You write longer texts where necessary, such as reports and publications.
• Demonstrable completed education at a minimum Master's level in healthcare or public health.
• Minimum 5 years of demonstrable work experience in the last 8 years with communication projects in the field of healthcare and its associated work field.
• Minimum 5 years of demonstrable work experience in the last 8 years with writing policy plans, program texts, and journalistic texts.
• Minimum 5 years of demonstrable work experience in the last 8 years with the execution and coordination of multimedia communication projects within healthcare.
• Ability to write texts in both Dutch and English.
• Demonstrable work experience at ZonMw or a similar public organization.
• You have demonstrable work experience with medicinal product research and practice.
• You have demonstrable work experience with writing for and with the mental healthcare target group.
• You have demonstrable work experience with the field of prevention, youth, elderly care, and efficiency research.
• You have demonstrable work experience within the social welfare and security domain, with a broad network within these domains.
• You have demonstrable work experience with writing texts without too much jargon, making connections between scientific research and practice, and translating this into understandable and interesting content.

Project details

• Start: Zo snel mogelijk
• Duration: Verlenging: Onbekend
• Location: 's-Gravenhage, NL
• Rate: 94-94 EUR/h
• Languages: Dutch, English