Manager, Communications

Responsibilities

• Oversees and prioritizes the conceptualization, development, and implementation of the focus area’s communications campaigns that advance SH’s mission, strategic vision, and plan.
• Ensures deliverables are accurate, error-free, and timely; meet quality and strategic goals; produced within budget; achieve key performance/publication indicators; and adhere to editorial guidelines, and brand standards.
• Manages issues, risks, and/or project scope changes to ensure efficient use of resources, time, and budget.
• Procures the necessary requirements, such as workforce, project information and deliverables, various agreements, union considerations, material, or technology essential to successfully accomplish project objectives.
• Advances and undertakes research/audit initiatives that inform and assess effectiveness of proposed and existing communications strategies or channels on brand and reputation, employee perceptions and/or communications preferences, etc.
• Manage vendor, freelance and/or agency relationships to help ensure high-quality, cost-efficient communications.
• Oversees and manages various functional teams and requests on select integrated marketing and communications projects, campaigns and programs for enterprise, market, ambulatory, acute and freestanding entities.
• Defines and communicates project objectives that are clear, useful, and attainable using a variety of best practices and standard processes to ensure operational efficiency and scalability.
• Liaises with core and contracted team members, information systems, operations, communications, marketing, legal, and other cross-functional and cross- organizational departments to reduce risk of overall failure, to maximize benefits, and to minimize costs.
• Proactively and strategically identifies, evaluates, and pursues communications, engagement and presentation opportunities for key senior executives that drive organizational strategy, increase system brand awareness, and positively position SH as an industry leader with high-impact target audiences including business partners; employers; and business, government, and community leaders.

Requirements

• Equivalent experience will be accepted in lieu of the required degree or diploma.
• Bachelor's: Communications, English, Journalism, Public Relations (PR), or related field
• 8 years recent relevant experience
• Comprehensive knowledge of strategic communications planning, social networking, graphic standards/corporate identity management, graphic design principles, news/feature/speech/online/script writing and editing techniques, publications development/production/management, principles of photography and audio/video production, audience list maintenance and special events coordination.

Preferred

• Accreditation in Public Relations (APR) from PRSA

Benefits

• comprehensive benefits package.