Senior Writer, Harborview Medical Center - UW Medicine, Strategic Communications

Responsibilities

• Executive and Leadership Communications – 45%
• Draft and refine high-visibility communications on behalf of senior leaders across UW Medicine, ensuring each message reflects the leader’s voice, priorities, and intended audience.
• Write and adapt content for speeches, talking points, presentations, videos, and multimedia campaigns that translate strategic priorities into clear, compelling messaging.
• Navigate a variety of topics and translate complex and sensitive information into clear, concise, and strategic messages for internal and external audiences consistent with institutional priorities.
• Guide message review and approval processes, exercising sound judgment to ensure communications are accurate, timely, polished, and aligned with institutional goals.
• Strategic Communications and Storytelling – 35%
• Create engaging, error-free content for a wide variety of audiences, including physicians, nurses, staff, patients, and community members, and across channels and formats, such as email, intranet, presentations, video, social media, and feature stories.
• Develop, edit, proof, and fact-check content to ensure consistency with UW Medicine’s brand voice, style standards, and accessibility expectations.
• Use communications platforms and digital tools to deliver targeted messaging, monitor engagement, and coordinate timing and channel strategy with communications partners.
• Communications Consulting and Editorial Support – 10%

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, writing, public relations, journalism, or a related field.
• Three to four years of demonstrated success in organizational and executive communications for a healthcare organization and developing written and video content on behalf of C-suite leaders.

Preferred

• Five - eight years of demonstrated success with organizational and executive communications for a healthcare organization, writing on behalf of C-suite leaders.
• Five years of communications experience in a hospital.
• Experience working in a large, multi-faceted healthcare organization.
• Demonstrated experience in video creation, including scripting, storyboarding, directing, or producing.
• Familiarity with video editing tools and production workflows (e.g., Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro) is a plus.
• Experience in mission-driven organizations.
• Familiarity with the AP style.
• Experience with different communication tools, such as content management systems like SharePoint, Drupal, WordPress and Simpplr and email platforms such as Marketo.

Benefits

• Benefits
• Other Compensation: For information about benefits for this position, visit https://www.washington.edu/jobs/benefits-for-uw-staff/