Communication Officer

ParkinsonNet Luxembourg promotes **patient-centred care** by training healthcare providers to identify and address the specific Parkinson's related needs of each patient and by facilitating communication between the different healthcare disciplines around a patient's individualised treatment. ParkinsonNet allows for **advanced integrated care for people with Parkinson’s**and is therefore culminating in the first **Réseau de Compétences Maladies Neurodégénératives**/ParkinsonNet (**RdC-MN)** funded by by the Ministry of Health and Social Security.

The “Programme for Dementia Prevention” (pdp) is a **first nation-wide programme** for effective **dementia prevention** within Luxembourg in a target population presenting with either Subjective Cognitive Decline (SCD) or Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). The programme is based on **recent scientific evidence** that demonstrates the opportunity to prevent dementia - or at least to delay it - by actively acting on specific modifiable risk factors, such as for example hypertension or physical inactivity.

ParkinsonNet and pdp are **nationwide integrated care networks**for personalised prevention and **medicine** approaches.

In the framework of these 2 programs, the Transversal Translational Medicine (TTM) department headed by Prof. Dr. med. Rejko Krüger, is looking for a dynamic and motivated Communication Officer.

**Key Accountabilities**

**Media**
- Write articles and conduct interviews with local and international newspapers, radio, and television outlets to raise awareness amongst the general public.

**Digital communication**
- Manage and update dedicated multilingual websites to ensure the availability of accessible information;
- Create and disseminate content through social media channels in collaboration with partners (e.g., Parkinson: Recherche au Luxembourg, Parkinson Luxembourg asbl ) to raise awareness and educate the community;

**Video production**
- Produce videos that are easily understandable to a non scientific audience or an audience with cognitive impairment, explain the aim and procedures of the pdp programme from the perspective of a participant.

**Print Materials**
- Design multilingual flyers, factsheets, and newsletters to inform the public and healthcare professionals about relevant programmes.

**Events coordination**
- Organize and/or participate in events, conferences

**Key Skills, Experience and Qualifications**
- Bachelor’s Degree in communication, journalism or marketing with demonstrated experience ideally in a medical/scientific context or Bachelor’s Degree in Life Sciences with knowledge of medical/scientific journalism and communication;
- At least two years of communication and copywriting experience, ideally within a medical/research institution, a communication agency or a medical/scientific medium;
- Creative thinker: one who thinks “outside of the box“, by formulating exciting, interesting and above all, persuasive ways of presenting information to an audience;
- Story-telling expertise and ability to take complex, scientific information and explain it in a clear, articulate and easy to understand format;
- Tech-savy;
- Strong project management and organisational skills;
- Autonomous, adaptable and flexible individual;
- ** Fluent in English and German** with excellent oral and copywriting skills. Good knowledge of French and Luxembourgish would be an asset.

**Gender Equality**

The LIH is an equal opportunities employer. We are fully committed to removing any discriminatory barrier related to gender, and not only, in recruitment and career progression of our staff.

The LIH is attentive to gender representation among its leadership staff and aims to eliminate obstacles to recruitment and promotion of female leaders and their career development.

**In Short...**:

- Contract type : Fixed-term contract (CDD)
- Contract duration : 24 months
- Work hours : 40h/week
- Location : Rue Thomas Edison 2 - 1445 Strassen
- Start date : ASAP
- Ref : MC/CO0425/RK/TTM

**How to apply**:
Applications including a letter detailing your motivation and a curriculum vitae should be sent through our website.