Advocacy Coordinator

Make your mark for patients

We are looking for an Advocacy Coordinator, who is intellectually curious, self-driven, and adaptable to join us in U.S. Corporate Affairs, Patient Value Operations team, based in our Washington DC office in the United States. This hybrid position requires a minimum of 40% on site presence with a 10% domestic travel requirement.

About the role
The U.S. Patient Advocacy team plays an important role in fulfilling UCB's purpose, partnering with patient communities to address unmet needs, enabling more people to lead the best lives they can, as free as possible from the challenges and uncertainty of disease.

Who you'll work with
You will be a high impact member of the U.S. Patient Advocacy team, managing a range of projects, relationships, and processes for patient-focused initiatives across neurology, immunology, and rare disease. The position will also be responsible for the certain operations for the UCB U.S. Corporate Affairs team, including the Washington DC office, where the position will be based.

What you'll do

• Manage projects to advance UCB's work with patient advocacy organizations, including planning, communications, event operations, compliance review, and reporting
• Establish and maintain effective relationships with patient advocacy leaders, ensuring good communication and strong collaboration
• Represent UCB at public events, conveying UCB commitment to patients
• Collaborate with Advocacy team members to shape advocacy strategies and generate ideas for ways to address patient unmet needs
• Manage Advocacy team planning and reporting processes
• Manage business processes related to patient advocacy and other corporate affairs initiatives, engaging effectively with partners across the company to ensure proper procedures related to sponsorships, activity notification forms, vendor purchase orders, payments, travel arrangements, and reconciliations
• Manage the Washington, DC office, coordinating with building management, company leaders, team members, and vendors to ensure effective operations

Interested? For this role we're looking for the following education, experience and skills
Minimum Education, Qualifications, Skills

• Bachelor's degree
• 2+ years of experience in administration, project management, funding/finance, or related field
• 2+ years of Microsoft Suite experience, including experience with Excel, Teams, and Outlook

Preferred Education, Qualifications, Skills

• Effective project management skills with experience managing and coordinating 4-8+ projects simultaneously
• Experience managing processes from end-to-end to ensure completion and reporting with an ability to seek clarity through ambiguity

This position's reasonably anticipated base salary range is $58,200-76,300 per year. The actual salary offered will take into account internal equity and may also vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience, among other factors.

Are you ready to 'go beyond' to create value and make your mark for patients? If this sounds like you, then we would love to hear from you!

About us
UCB is a global biopharmaceutical company, focusing on neurology and immunology. We are around 8,500 people in all four corners of the globe, inspired by patients and driven by science.

Why work with us?
At UCB, we don't just complete tasks, we create value. We aren't afraid to push forward, collaborate, and innovate to make our mark for patients. We have a caring, supportive culture where everyone feels included, respected, and has equal opportunities to do their best work. We 'go beyond' to create value for our patients, and always with a human focus, whether that's on our patients, our employees, or our planet. Working for us, you will discover a place where you can grow, and have the freedom to carve your own career path to achieve your full potential.

UCB is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions will be made without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. UCB invites you to voluntarily self-identify during the application process. Provision of self-identification information is entirely voluntary and a decision to provide or not provide such information will not have any effect on your application for employment, your employment with UCB, or otherwise subject you to any adverse treatment. Any information you provide will be considered confidential and will be kept separate from your application and/or personnel file and will only be used in accordance with applicable laws, orders, and regulations.

Should you require any adjustments to our process to assist you in demonstrating your strengths and capabilities contact us on US-Reasonable_Accommodation@ucb.com for application to US based roles. Please note should your enquiry not relate to adjustments; we will not be able to support you through this channel.