Communications & Marketing
Welcome to a place where communications isn't just about delivering messages—it's about transforming lives. Our award-winning communications and marketing team specializes in integrated strategies that resonate from micro to macro levels. We orchestrate campaigns that transcend the ordinary, from comprehensive outreach plans to targeted community partnerships. With a keen eye for branding, coupled with evidence-based practices grounded in human-centered design and social marketing theory, we ensure meaningful and memorable messages that motivate individuals, families, and communities to take notice and take action. Through innovative product recommendations, seamless event planning, and engaging multimedia, we amplify the voices of our clients and their programs that catalyze change around the world.
Communications & Marketing Subcategories
Creative and Interactive Design
Abt’s award-winning creative and interactive design studio offers a rich blend of technical expertise, carefully crafted messages, and human-centered product designs that effectively engage audiences with energy, personality, and impact. From interactive online training to dynamic report microsites, we help our global clients translate and transform ideas for diverse stakeholders. Our formative research and audience-centric approach shape tailored products for a memorable and lasting impression—one that leads to positive changes or outcomes in communities around the world. Our collaborative process ensures brand consistency and alignment with our clients’ mission objectives and communication goals.
Events Design & Management
Whatever your event goal—building program support, recruiting top talent, promoting thought leadership, increasing brand awareness, boosting attendee engagement—we offer the full spectrum of event design, management, and promotion. Our virtual event production and experience marketing teams implement comprehensive strategies to ensure event success from logistics planning to post-event follow-up. We plan and execute dynamic in-person conferences, interactive exhibit activations and carefully orchestrated webinars. Our expert vendor and venue management practices align every element to transform your vision into reality.
Strategic Communications & Behavior Change
Abt’s strategic communications and behavior change practice specializes in helping organizations reach the right audiences, at the right time, and in the most impactful way to raise awareness, educate or change behavior. Drawing from communication best practices, evidence-based solutions and social marketing theory, Abt’s communication experts tailor solutions to maximize real-world impact and meet communication objectives.
Abt’s deep expertise in qualitative and quantitative research offer a differentiated understanding of audiences ensuring audience engagement and co-creation from the beginning of communication planning. Clear and impactful messaging, creative materials, and innovative dissemination tactics through partners and digital platforms maximize audience reach anywhere around the globe. Rigorous evaluation ensures long-term sustainable outcomes and programmatic impact for international, federal, state, and local agencies.
Video Production
Our Emmy award-winning producer and multimedia team bring our clients’ brands and programs to life through dynamic, immersive video and visual content. We offer a global network and deep understanding of full life-cycle video production, from strategy and logistics management to creative and technical execution to commercial content distribution and marketing. We leverage our in-house studio, visual storytellers, voiceover talent and production expertise to develop scripts and create videos that educate, entertain, and inspire viewers in formats that are cost-effective, mobile-friendly and measurable over time. We optimize video and audio quality with AI-supported editing and custom animations. Our studio is your creative playground for documentaries, master classes, or online tutorials.
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Social Behavior Change Communication Specialist- PMI Evolve DRC
Democratic Republic of Congo
As the PMI Evolve project’s Social Behavior Change Communication Specialist, you will be responsible for the development of strategies and initiatives required for the social mobilizations and communications before, during and after ITN mass distribution campaigns. This position is expected to support the activity through September 2025.
Clinical Services Lead Proposal
Afghanistan
Abt Global is preparing for an upcoming USAID-funded health activity (project) in Afghanistan that aims to improve the quality of health and nutrition services, increase access to health services, improve healthy behavior and care-seeking practices, and strengthen the health system to enhance resilience. The activity will focus on increasing equitable access to and utilization of quality health and nutrition services and adoption of health behaviors, especially for women and children, in both the public and private sectors.