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Communications and Content Strategist

  • Role: Communications and Content Strategist
  • Organization: Maisha Meds
  • Location: Nairobi, Kenya

At Maisha Meds, we’re passionate about building software that makes healthcare accessible and affordable for patients worldwide.  We partner with important institutions in global health to test incentive structures to support universal healthcare, make health systems digital and mobile first, and make care affordable and higher quality for patients. If these types of projects excite you, we’d love for you to join us.

About You

We’re looking for a Communications and Content Strategist to join our Nairobi office. Ideal candidates will have strong communications skills, a passion for solving hard problems, and a love of writing and design.

Our aim is to create compelling proposals, presentations, videos, digital storytelling, blog, and social media content to help potential customers, partners, and funders understand what we do, how we do it, and what that means for them. This role is neither static nor easily defined. It requires a combination of writing, design, photography, project management, and execution skills, as well as the ability to thrive in a highly technical environment.

You’ll communicate our culture and stories across various mediums including print, interface, and environmental design. In doing so, you’ll be responsible for many of the brand touch points that align us internally, as well as those that connect us to the rest of the world. And, working with company leadership and board, you’ll play a critical role in shaping our approach to communications and content design strategy.

The ideal candidate has a combination of exceptional rigour in the craft of brand and narrative strategy, a love of people and a desire to figure out how the tools of creativity and narrative can help make impact in the world. The candidate should be comfortable with a morphing environment and proactive about figuring out how to make things happen.

For this position, we are seeking people who are:

  • Outstanding writers. We articulate technical concepts and healthcare impact of our model through white papers, proposals, digital storytelling, blog posts, and other artifacts. We are also editors, holding others accountable and subjecting their ideas to analytical rigor.
  • Design adept. Design is important in this role. We believe beauty in artifacts matters because people read beautiful things. You might need to build a presentation deck that conveys our impact at an organization or build graphics that illustrate how people seek care in the health system.
  • Mission-driven. Individuals who thrive in this role enjoy putting pen to paper and derive satisfaction from finding elegant ways to communicate complex ideas. The best candidates are action-oriented, creative, collaborative, and detail-oriented. Even when the work is rote or unglamorous, we are willing to do what it takes to most effectively give expression to the power of our technology and business impact.

Sound exciting? Here’s who we are looking for.

Skills & Qualifications

  • BA/BS or equivalent experience
  • Excellent writing skills. In this role, you are responsible for putting pen to paper and owning the development of a wide range of collateral
  • Strong design skills. While you may not be a designer by training, you have some design intuition and a baseline skill set that allows you to create effective presentations and graphics.
  • Exceptional communication skills (verbal, written, visual, both formal and casual, etc.), and sharp instincts for visual storytelling through data visualizations, digital presentations, and designs
  • Excellence in branding, marketing, and / or design. You grasp the nuance of customer motivations and needs and have a track record of using design (e. g., graphic design, information design) to achieve business or organizational outcomes.
  • Demonstrated fluency with technology. You are comfortable learning about and articulating Maisha Meds’ technology and prepared to learn new skills or technologies to deliver the most effective solutions.
  • Strong and demonstrable understanding and creative point of view in graphic design and photography
  • Competency in creative software systems (photoshop, indesign, illustrator)
  • Self-initiative and proactiveness. You identify improvements and provocative new ideas, then work to make them happen
  • A sense of humor

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