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Internal Communications Specialist II

South San Francisco, CA 94080

Posted: 10/03/2025 Employment Type: Contract Industry: Administration Job Number: 12386 Pay Rate: $47.35 - $59.44 Remote Friendly: Onsite

Job Description

Our client is a leading biotechnology company that discovers, develops, manufactures and commercializes medicines to treat patients with serious or life-threatening medical conditions. They are among the world's leading biotech companies, with multiple products on the market and a promising development pipeline.

Overview: 

As the Internal Communications Specialist (contractor) for our client's Research and Early Development Business Operations & Communications, you will help translate business strategies into key messages, create internal/employee communications content, and lead programs that create excitement, drive engagement, align teams and shape culture. This role involves fostering relationships across the organization to support different initiatives and leaders through the development of communication strategies and materials. Leveraging internal expertise and external best practices, this role will deliver innovation in support of its vision, strategy and culture.

The ideal candidate will have strong writing skills and a natural ability to think strategically while delivering tactical results. The candidate will work cross functionally to implement best-in-class organizational communications, and must be an effective communicator, a strong collaborator, and comfortable leveraging a variety of digital tools to build our internal communications capabilities.

Responsibilities:
  • Provide communications support to various gRED functions - assisting with the development and conceptualization of campaigns, communications strategies, all hands meetings, and ongoing communications support.
  • Manage the planning, coordination and execution of internal employee events and meetings as needed and appropriate.
  • Create well-written, researched, validated, clear, consistent business communications on a range of topics that span organizational announcements, newsletters, meeting presentations and multimedia.
  • Manage quarterly organizational announcements, including editing and distribution.
  • Develop surveys and metrics reports to measure impact of internal communications.
  • Manage editorial calendar and ensure appropriate cadence of new content.
  • Manage digital communications, including the intranet site, developing content, ensuring that it is up-to-date, engaging, and informative.
  • Use internal channels to maximize internal communication effectiveness and ensure consistent messaging, branding, imagery and identity.
  • Implement metrics reports and create surveys to measure effectiveness of internal communication channels and measure internal communications with the goal of continuously improving internal communications strategy to reach and engage employees.

Job Requirements

Qualifications:
  • BS/BA required

Experience:
  • 5 - 8 years of experience in a communications role in a large, matrixed biotech or healthcare organization
  • Experience with Adobe suite of creative tools
  • Experience with Google suite
  • Experience with Slack, Poppulo and Wordpress
  • Biotech or pharma experience in the research/early discovery and development area is highly desirable
  • Strong understanding of internal communications, employee engagement, and channels management
  • Strong writing and editing skills
  • Change management communications skills

To be successful, the Internal Communications Specialist (contractor) must:
  • Have a clear impact/results orientation and ability to set dynamic, compelling communications.
  • Have a passion for company culture and creating a unique and differentiated employee experience.
  • Experience in leveraging communications technology platforms to deliver compelling communications content.
  • Have outstanding communication and presentation skills, both written and verbal.
  • Highly effective at distilling complex and sometimes voluminous content into clear, concise, and engaging communications.
  • Showcase time management and organizational skills. Consistently execute multiple, and sometimes competing, activities and complex projects to a high-quality conclusion, on time, and within budget.
  • Consistently act with the requisite urgency (as different circumstances may dictate more urgent communications and priorities).
  • Demonstrated ability to think analytically and develop solutions that meet the business needs of gRED.
  • Excellent organizational and administrative skills with strong attention to detail.
  • Highly motivated, persuasive, priority-driven and collaborative.
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively in small and large groups.
  • Consistently demonstrate strong business acumen and judgment.
  • Self-motivated and able to work independently with minimal supervision.
  • Willingness to build relationships and collaborate across the broader organization.
  • Strong team player with the ability to work effectively with partners and staff at all levels.

Meet Your Recruiter

Lisa Weiss
Senior Recruiter, Account Manager

As a Recruiter at Compass, Lisa has a long history of working with candidates in many different industries. Lisa was drawn to the life science industry because she feels her best work is done when she’s connecting candidates to jobs that make a big impact on the world.

Lisa is passionate about her candidates and feels most rewarded when she helps them land their dream job. She will walk you through the opportunities and guide you so that you can share your best self to the employer.

When Lisa isn’t working, she enjoys fitness, travel, and spending time with her husband and two children.  And yes, if her voice sounds familiar to you it’s because she’s a famous voice over star.

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