SR. COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST
MAKE A DIFFERENCE AT OCHIN!
OCHIN is a rapidly growing national nonprofit health IT organization with two decades of experience transforming health care delivery to drive health equity. We are hiring for a number of new positions to meet increasing demand. When you choose to join OCHIN, you have the opportunity to continuously grow your skills and do meaningful work to help fulfill our mission.
OCHIN provides leading-edge technology, data analytics, research, and support services to nearly 1,000 community health care sites, reaching nearly 6 million patients nationally. We believe that every individual, no matter their race, ethnicity, background, or zip code, should have fair opportunity to achieve their full health potential. Our work addresses differences in health that are systemic, avoidable, and unjust. We partner, learn, innovate, and advocate, in order to close the gap in health for individuals and communities negatively impacted by racism or other structural inequities.
At OCHIN, we value the unique perspectives and experiences of every individual and work hard to maintain a culture of belonging.
Founded in Oregon in 2000, OCHIN employs a growing virtual workforce of more than 900 diverse professionals, working remotely across 46 states. We offer a generous compensation package and are committed to supporting our employees’ entire well-being by fostering a healthy work-life balance and equitable opportunity for professional advancement. We are curious, collaborative learners who strive to live our values everyday: leadership, collaboration, excellence, innovation, inclusion, and stewardship. OCHIN is excited to support our continued national expansion and the increasing demand for our innovative tools and services by welcoming new talent to our growing team.
Position Overview
The Senior Communications Specialist is a key member of OCHIN’s Corporate Communications and Marketing team supporting the development, management and evaluation of messages, content, and programs to deepen audience awareness and understanding of OCHIN’s mission, vision, goals, and capabilities. This role requires expertise in writing, editing, visual storytelling, content production, and project management. Depending on the corporate communications and marketing discipline, this role may also require specialized expertise in other core functions, such as: executive communications, media relations, editorial review, brand design, and workforce communications.
A systems thinker with a keen eye for detail, the Senior Communications Specialist can mobilize quickly to shepherd original written or visual content from idea to production and enjoys creating opportunities for content integration and optimization in service of broader organizational goals and priorities. This role provides both functional and strategic support to corporate communications and marketing colleagues and actively seeks to collaborate with others across the organization to advance projects that support OCHIN’s mission and embodies its values
Essential Duties
Storytelling and Content Creation: Draws on available data and insights to craft compelling messages, stories, scripts, and visual content that connect audiences to OCHIN’s mission, value, and capabilities. Adept at authoring original written, visual and dynamic content for traditional, digital, and social media.
Brand Management: In partnership with others, ensures that all corporate communications and marketing materials align to and reinforce OCHIN’s brand expression, voice, and strategic narrative.
Metrics and Performance: Incorporates methods of measurement to optimize the reach and relevancy of corporate communications and marketing materials. Seeks to optimize communications and marketing effectiveness to drive heightened audience awareness, understanding and engagement.
Teaming and Collaboration: Adept at partnering across teams to socialize new ideas and strategies, collaborate to build buy-in and strengthen outcomes and drive positive results.
CEO Eminence: Supports strategic development of CEO messaging platform and collaborates with Corporate Communications and Marketing managers to leverage CEO voice for driving awareness and distinction for OCHIN among public audiences, funding partners, Board members, network members, and staff.
Events and Speech Writing: Leads coordination of CEO public speaking events, including creation of slides, writing talking points, conducting prep sessions, and managing overall logistical coordination to ensure smooth in-person or on-line event appearances. May support other high priority executive leadership team speaking events as necessary.
Social Media Management and Editorial Planning: Manages CEO social media presence, including channel development, editorial calendar, content production, digital networking and engagement. Actively contributes to OCHIN’s broader editorial calendar, looking for messaging opportunities and synergies across audiences, and coordinates posting with Digital Marketing team.
Writing and Editing: Gains CEO trust and uses industry best-practices, including AP style and SEO, to craft high-quality content that translates CEO or other executive voices across diverse audiences and channels. Ensures these efforts reinforce OCHIN’s brand expression and strategic narrative, while maintaining individual authenticity.
Contributed Content and Media Relations: Contributes to the strategic use of CEO or other executive voices in integrated marketing and public relations campaigns through the production of ghost-authored articles, blog posts, op-eds, and press release quotes. May support CEO prep for media interviews or FAQs in collaboration with media relations lead.
Analytics and Reporting: Tracks metrics for performance and engagement and provides weekly, monthly, and quarterly analytics reports to guide strategy.
Executive Communications and Events Support: Partners with others across the Corporate Communications and Marketing team to support other executive communications and OCHIN events as needed.
Other duties as assigned.
Requirements:
- Seven years of experience in corporate and marketing communications, public and media relations, editorial strategy, or lead writer role
- Experience in executive and organizational public relations management
- Proven experience in delivering original content in short timeframes
- Proven background managing multiple projects, schedules, and timelines. Ability to work both independently and collaboratively to drive progress and achieve desired results
- Ability to extract meaningful insights from data and translate findings into compelling stories, messages, and strategies
- Background in public relations, journalism, or agency experience is desired
COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement
To keep our colleagues, members, and communities safe, OCHIN requires all employees—including remote employees, contractors, interns, and new hires—to be vaccinated with a COVID-19 vaccine, as supported by state and federal public health officials, as a condition of employment. All new hires are required to provide proof of full vaccination or receive approval for a medical or religious exemption before their hire date.
Work Location and Travel Requirements
OCHIN is 100% remote organization. Work from home requirements are:
- Ability to work independently and efficiently from a home office environment
- High Speed Internet Service
- It is a requirement that employees work in a distraction free workplace
- Travel may be required to support our member organizations on-site based on business requirements for OCHIN
We offer a comprehensive range of benefits. See our website for details: https://ochin.org/employment-openings
Equal Opportunity Statement
OCHIN is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills for the benefit of our staff, our mission, and the communities we serve.
As an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer, OCHIN, Inc. does not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, marital or civil union status, age, disability status, veteran status, or any other protected characteristics. All aspects of employment are based on merit, performance, and business needs.
Base Pay Overview
The typical offer range for this role is minimum to midpoint, with the midpoint representing the average pay in a national market scope for this position. Please keep in mind that this range represents the pay range for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual salary offer will consider a wide range of factors directly relevant to this position, including, but not limited to, skills, knowledge, training, responsibility, and experience, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.
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