Senior Director Advocacy and Community Engagement, U.S. Virology (Hepatitis, HIV and Liver Disease)

Senior Director Advocacy and Community Engagement, U.S. Virology (Hepatitis, HIV and Liver Disease)
United States - District of Columbia - Washington

Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a research-based bio-pharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercializes innovative medicines in areas of unmet medical need. With each new discovery and investigational drug candidate, we seek to improve the care of patients living with life-threatening diseases around the world. Gilead’s therapeutic areas of focus include HIV/AIDS, liver diseases, cancer and inflammation, and serious respiratory and cardiovascular conditions.

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Job Description


Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company that has pursued and achieved breakthroughs in medicine for more than three decades, with the goal of creating a healthier world for all people. The company is committed to advancing innovative medicines to prevent and treat life-threatening diseases, including HIV, viral hepatitis, and cancer. Gilead operates in more than 35 countries worldwide, with headquarters in Foster City, California.

We have the following exciting opportunity in our Washington, DC location (location flexible).

Senior Director Advocacy and Community Engagement, U.S. Virology (Hepatitis, HIV and Liver Disease) *level will be aligned w/experience (SD or Director)

Reporting to the Senior Director of Advocacy & Community Engagement, this role will be responsible for developing and leading an advocacy and engagement strategy for Gilead's virologic and liver disease therapeutic areas. This includes management of long-term advocacy relationships and forging new relationships with patient advocacy groups to meet consumer needs and drive Gilead's U.S. advocacy and community engagement strategic goals and objectives.

Key areas of responsibility include:

• Build and maintain relationships with patient advocacy groups (PAGs) and coalitions that align with Gilead's commitment to patients and relevant topics (e.g., reducing health inequity and improving patient access). Proactively build relationship with patients, caregivers and advocates for people living with HIV, hepatitis, and rare liver diseases around Gilead's pipeline products and treatments.
  
• Serve as the lead relationship manager for patient advocacy and caregiver groups, and other relevant stakeholder groups advocating for people living with HIV, hepatitis, and rare liver diseases.
  
• Lead a cross-functional advocacy working group and coordinate the development and implementation of a comprehensive U.S. patient advocacy and engagement strategy, aligned with the Virology Franchise global objectives. Cross-functional partners will include but not be limited to: Public Affairs, Medical Affairs, Clinical Operations, Clinical Research, Regulatory, Market Access, Global Commercial Product Strategy, Commercial Marketing, Legal, Business Conduct and Government Affairs & Policy.
  
• Maintain awareness of current and new local, state and federal health care policy and population-health related initiatives aimed at reducing health disparities for people living with HIV, hepatitis, and rare liver diseases.
  
• Support cross-functional efforts convening health equity stakeholders to promote excellence in community engagement, academia, research, clinical care and public health practice in socially and economically disadvantaged communities
  
• Build internal capacity and capabilities supporting the development of health equity-focused innovative community-led engagement initiatives supporting populations disparately impacted by virologic diseases
  
• Drive strategic coalition building among key advocacy partners to support organizational capacity building for patient identification, screening, linkage to care and address of stigma-related health disparities.
  
• Lead and apply stakeholder mapping to identify and develop strategic alliances with U.S. advocacy organizations and relevant stakeholders aligned with Gilead's global and U.S. advocacy strategic plans.
  
• Support bi-directional communication between Gilead and Virology PAGs to understand and identify unmet need and priorities among community stakeholders related to policy, research and population health programming.
  
• Develop internal and external communication strategies to drive visibility of community advocates' priorities related to disease education and awareness, disease prevalence, screening, linkage and retention into care.
  
• Represent advocacy stakeholders' perspectives in the discovery, development and delivery of Gilead therapeutic products.
  
• Develop and collaborate with Public Affairs Therapeutic, Corporate and Employee Communications to drive an external communications plan for community education and disease awareness, clinical milestones, product development, advocacy partnerships, media engagements.
  
• Coordinate with and support global affiliate Public Affairs leads to align U.S. advocacy efforts with the global advocacy and corporate strategy.
  
• Initiate, facilitate and execute high-priority pilot community engagement initiatives with cross functional teams across the organization that align with strategic priorities.
  

Qualifications:

• Experience in patient advocacy, community engagement, and issues management.
  
• Able to prioritize tasks, organize and manage multiple projects.
  
• Communicate and collaborate effectively with internal customers and cross-functional teams.
  
• Coordinate and manage projects with external consultants as needed or appropriate.
  
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
  
• Excellent strategic thinker with ability to formulate, develop and execute on agreed strategies.
  
• Strong executive presence. Ability to command respect with both external and internal stakeholders.
  
• Demonstrate ability to take initiative and consistently deliver high-quality, patient-centric solution. while working in a high-matrix organization.
  
• Expertise in issues management, crisis communications and media relations
  
• Demonstrated experience driving communications plans that support business priorities
  
• Track record of developing and leading reputation building campaigns
  
• Ability to interact with senior management, academic experts and patient advocates appropriately, with confidence and ease
  
• Ability to influence others and drive alignment across diverse teams
  
• A passion for engaging in public health and policy issues
  
• Prior experience in HIV communications, advocacy, government affairs, marketing or medical affairs is highly desired
  
• A strong understanding of the US market access environment is essential
  
• Ability to present complex strategy to executive leadership
  
• Demonstrated knowledge of regulations governing communications for a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company
  

Specific Education and Experience

• For Director level- requires 12 years relevant experience with a bachelor's degree, experience in public health strategy, program development and communications or 10 years of relevant experience with a master's degree in communications, public health, social work, or related field.
  
• For Senior Director level- requires 14 years relevant experience with a bachelor's degree or 12 years with a master's degree in related field.
  
• At least 6 years' experience working with biopharmaceutical partners.
  
• At least 6 years of experience working with advocacy partners and membership-based organizations in virology, specifically HIV and liver disease
  
• We're an equal opportunity employer.
  

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