(Undergraduate FWS-only position) Global Health Communications Assistant

Stanford’s Center for Innovation in Global Health (CIGH) is committed to increasing well-being, worldwide. We share knowledge, equip leaders, and build teams to address urgent global health challenges and achieve health equity. Our core focus areas include human and planetary health, refugees and vulnerable populations, and women’s leadership in global health.

The Undergraduate Global Health Communications Assistant will be an essential contributor to our center’s communications efforts, helping to engage diverse audiences and raise awareness of global health research, activities, and opportunities at Stanford University and beyond.

Working directly with the Global Health Communications Manager, the assistant’s responsibilities may include, but are not limited to: 

• Creating social media posts for various mediums, ensuring brand consistency and appropriate content, tone, and visuals for posts 
• Helping to maintain the center’s website, globalhealth.stanford.edu, using our WordPress platform
• Reporting and writing short stories for the center’s website based on recent research or global health events
• Taking and editing photos and videos at various global health events on campus
• Assisting with strategy and planning to ensure our social media outreach is having the maximum reach and impact
• Creating graphic content for social media, website, and visual display, using platforms such as Adobe Creative Cloud and/or Canva
• Planning and promoting engagement opportunities by building and leveraging on-campus and off-campus partnerships, and with students
• Ensuring strategic and timely content development and publication through management of a content calendar

Alongside these core responsibilities, the Global Health Communications Assistant will also be encouraged to pursue and develop communications and storytelling projects in their own area of expertise or interests in global health. 

If there is an interest, the assistant may have additional opportunities to support the Center for Innovation in Global Health, including conducting desk research and/or creating PowerPoint presentations on global health topics. 

Position Length: The selected applicant will begin work as soon as possible and continue through the 2025-26 academic year, with the opportunity to extend into the summer or future academic years.

Opportunities and Benefits: 

This is an excellent opportunity for students who would like to utilize innovative and engaging communications for social good, with a specific interest in global health, human and planetary health, health equity, and diversity in health leadership. The assistant will gain hands-on experience, develop relationships with global health researchers and leaders at Stanford and in the broader Bay Area, develop an understanding of the global health academic space, and gain experience in numerous modes of science communication.  

Undergraduate students of all majors, interests, and backgrounds are encouraged to apply. 

Skills and Abilities: 

• Detail-oriented and a strong self-starter, able to follow tasks through to completion with little supervision 
• Excellent written and oral communication skills 
• Experience managing or contributing to professional social media accounts
• Graphic design skills and experience
• Experience and comfort taking and editing photos
• Able to commit an average 10-15 hours per week. Schedule is flexible and can be partially executed from home, with the need to film in person and attend some in-person events
• Strong interest in global health
• Experience filming and comfort with using audio and lighting equipment to capture professional-quality video is a plus, but not required
• Experience managing website content is preferred, but not required

Hours: 10-15 hours per week

Compensation: Hourly — will be commensurate with experience and will follow Student Wage Scales set by the University.

Application: To apply, please submit your resume and a cover letter to jmhansen@stanford.edu. Applicants must be current students at Stanford University.