Media Relations Specialist

Columbus, OH (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own cross-team marketing execution and strategic evaluation, translating data-driven insights into campaigns, content, and events that align with organizational goals.

  • Collaborate across teams and vendors to deliver campaigns and events on time and within budget.
  • Develop and evaluate marketing plans, guiding content creation and audience targeting with analytics-driven insights.
  • Manage client projects and ensure quality, while supporting media relations and crisis communications as needed.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Collaborates on the implementation of marketing and communication projects, campaigns, or events, ensuring completion within time and budget constraints.
  • Assists with the strategic development and evaluation of marketing and communication plans.
  • Creates and edits content and materials for assigned platforms or audiences.
  • Collaborates with various teams, departments, and external vendors, ensuring that the execution of projects and strategies align with broader organizational objectives.
  • Uses data and analytics to inform strategies and measure the effectiveness of campaigns and projects.
  • Provides support to clients, team members, and other departments, ensuring continuous quality and service improvement.
  • Handles media relations, develops messaging, creates and distributes content, coordinates interviews and events, and tracks media coverage.
  • Supports crisis and public affairs communications.
  • Supervises client projects and provides continuous quality and service improvement, offering counsel and support within the team.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Communication, or related field, required.
  • Two years of marketing, communication, or equivalent experience, required.
  • Valid Ohio driver’s license and proof of auto insurance is required by hospital policy. Must pass a motor vehicle background inspection, insurance eligibility, driving qualifications and training set forth by Nationwide Children’s Hospital and must maintain qualification of insurance guidelines.

Preferred

  • Healthcare experience, preferred.
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Nationwide Children's Hospital

Nationwide Children’s is one of America's largest pediatric hospitals, an international leader in research and is ranked in all 10 specialties on U.S. News & World Report’s 2025-26 “America’s Best Children’s Hospitals” list. Our staff, comprised of 1,600 medical professionals and over 16,000 employees, provides state-of-the-art pediatric care for 1.8 million patient visits annually. And, according to the Children’s Hospital Association, Nationwide Children's is the #1 provider of pediatric surgery in the country. Our doctors represent every major pediatric sub-specialty. With over 50 locations throughout Ohio, signature programs include heart, cancer, gastroenterology and neonatology care, all of which are internationally recognized. Tim Robinson is CEO of Nationwide Children’s Hospital, which includes the Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Nationwide Children’s Hospital Foundation and The Center for Family Safety and Healing at Nationwide Children’s Hospital.As home to the Department of Pediatrics of The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Nationwide Children’s physicians train the next generation of pediatricians and pediatric specialists. The Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital is one of the Top 10 National Institutes of Health-funded freestanding pediatric research facilities. Nationwide Children’s remains true to the original mission since its founding in 1892 of providing care regardless of a family’s ability to pay. More information is available at NationwideChildrens.org.

Columbus, Ohio, USA
12K employees

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.5M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$93.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
59.5%
Direct
33.8%
Referral
4.7%
Social
1.1%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~12.3K

Funding

Total Funding
$4.1M
Last Raise
$4.1M
Grant, 2 years ago

Funding History

  • Mar 2024
    Grant • $4.1M
  • Sep 2023
    Grant

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