Responsibilities

• Support the development and execution from creation, distribution, management, and implementation of defined community engagement programs.
• Ability to manage a wide range of relationships with community partners, internal and external stakeholders, and track interactions with these groups.
• Maintain and utilize community engagement tracking tools to provide full record of activities, to compile data, and to develop reports.
• Participates in meetings, events, symposiums, or initiatives, in community engagement involvement by providing regular updates, identifying challenges, and reporting on a project plan.
• Work collaboratively with other internal departments. Serving as an Advocate Health representative on committees (internal and external community coalitions).
• Build and maintain strategic partnerships with community stakeholders including local elected officials, nonprofits, corporate partners, public health officials, and foundations while continually assessing and making recommendations for appropriate level of funding and mutually beneficial engagement opportunities.
• Communicate, advance, emphasize, prioritize programs and makes recommendations regarding community investment opportunities.
• Identify healthcare and community engagement trends and support management in the developing the Advocate Health Community Engagement strategy.
• Support the development of an execution model from creation, distribution, management, and implementation.
• Participate in reporting on related and respective programs using defined key performance indicators. Retrieve, test, measure, evaluate, and recommend insight research to ensure effectiveness of community engagement campaign and social impact results.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Public Relations, Public Health, Business or related field.
• Typically requires 3 years of experience required in community relations, non-profit management, corporate giving, or corporate responsibility. Familiarity with corporate social responsibility programs, local community organizations, programs, and nonprofit groups.
• Excellent relationship management skills
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills required
• Exceptional PowerPoint, MS Word and Excel skills required
• Self-directed with excellent time management and detail orientation
• Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced healthcare environment with tight deadlines
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects at once
• Adaptability based on changing needs of the organization
• Requires reading, comprehension, and editing materials.

Preferred

• Have an understanding of the current organizational landscape
• Ability to fully embed themselves within the community and across our hospital sites
• Experience using MS Planner and/or Salesforce

Benefits

• Our Commitment To You
• Advocate Health offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs, competitive compensation, generous retirement offerings, programs that invest in your career development and so much more – so you can live fully at and away from work, including: