External Engagement Associate

Description

The U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) is an independent scientific organization that collaborates with the world’s leading health and science experts to develop rigorous quality standards for medicines, dietary supplements, and food ingredients. At USP, we believe that scientific excellence is driven by a commitment to fairness, integrity, and global collaboration. This belief is embedded in our core value of Passion for Quality and is demonstrated through the contributions of more than 1,300 professionals across twenty global locations, working to strengthen the supply of safe, high-quality medicines worldwide.

At USP, we value inclusive scientific collaboration and recognize that attracting diverse expertise strengthens our ability to develop trusted public health standards. We foster an organizational culture that supports equitable access to mentorship, professional development, and leadership opportunities. Our partnerships, standards, and research reflect our belief that ensuring broad participation in scientific leadership results in stronger, more impactful outcomes for global health.

USP is proud to be an equal employment opportunity employer (EEOE) and is committed to ensuring fair, merit-based selection processes that enable the best scientific minds—regardless of background—to contribute to advancing public health solutions worldwide. We provide reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities and uphold policies that create an inclusive and collaborative work environment.

The External Engagement Associate supports the execution of external engagement, communications, and stakeholder outreach activities across USP’s Global Health and Manufacturing Services (GHMS) portfolio. This role plays a critical coordination function across events, communications products, social media, and stakeholder engagement efforts—helping ensure high-quality, timely delivery of external-facing activities.

Working under the supervision of the Director, External Engagement, the Associate contributes to amplifying USP’s thought leadership, strengthening partner engagement, and supporting priority visibility and influence opportunities. This is an individual contributor role that combines strong writing and communications, coordination, and project management responsibilities.

As part of our mission to advance scientific rigor and public health standards, you will play a vital role in increasing global access to high-quality medicines through public standards and related programs. USP prioritizes scientific integrity, regulatory excellence, and evidence-based decision-making to ensure health systems worldwide can rely on strong, tested, and globally relevant quality standards.

Additionally, USP’s People and Culture division, in partnership with the Equity Office, invests in leadership and workforce development to equip all employees with the skills to create high-performing, inclusive teams. This includes training in equitable management practices and tools to promote engaged, collaborative, and results-driven work environments.

• Maintain stakeholder trackers, engagement calendars, and coordination tools.
• Conduct research on organizations, events, and engagement opportunities to inform team planning.
• Prepare briefing notes, background materials, presentations, talking points, and summaries for meetings and engagements.

• Provide coordination and logistical support for conferences, webinars, round tables, and other events including development, issuance, and tracking of invitations, development of event materials, onsite logistics, and other tasks as required.
• Assist in development of invitations, agendas, speaker briefs, run-of-show materials, and post-event summaries.
• Conduct event scanning for upcoming engagement opportunities and support event planning workflows and strategy.
• Coordinate internal review and approval processes for event sponsor ships and conference submissions.