The role is hybrid with 40% of time spent working at an onsite location. The position includes rotating 24/7 on-call responsibilities with other members of the Marketing and Communications team. This position reports to the manager, Marketing and Communications for Seattle Children’s clinical division, with dotted line reporting to the manager of Community Health Programs and Advocacy at OBCC.
- Bachelor’s degree in communications, marketing, journalism, public relations or closely related field.
- A minimum of five (5) years experience in a Marketing and/or communications role.
Required Credentials:
- N/A.
Preferred:
- Experience working as a marketing/communications professional in a healthcare and/or non-profit setting.
- Experience managing complex, multi-faceted communication plans involving multiple stakeholders and audiences.
- Experience with crisis/reactive communication, including response and support.
- Experience writing for print and online channels (e.g., newsletters; flyers; brochures; websites; blogs; etc.).
- Experience with Associated Press style and adherence to editorial and graphic standards.
- Experience with photography and/or image editing software (e.g., PhotoShop).
- Experience with web content management systems/HTML.
- Experience developing messaging with an equity, diversity and inclusion focus, and an understanding of EDI principles like unconscious/implicit bias, social determinants of health, etc.
- Experience providing Marketing and/or communications consultation and support to senior leaders.
- Experience writing for multiple audience types and health literacy levels.
- Bi-lingual.
Our founding promise to the community is as valid today as it was over a century ago: we will care for all children in our region, regardless of the families’ ability to pay. Together, we deliver superior patient care, advance new discoveries and treatments through pediatric research, and serve as the pediatric and adolescent, academic medical center for Washington, Alaska, Montana and Idaho – the largest region of any children’s hospital in the country.
In 2022, U.S. News & World Report once again ranked Seattle Children’s among the nation’s best children’s hospitals – for the 30th year in a row. For more than a decade, Seattle Children’s has been nationally ranked in all 10 specialty areas evaluated by U.S. News & World Report. We are honored to be the top-ranked pediatric hospital in Washington and the Pacific Northwest.
As a Magnet designated institution, and classified among America’s best large employers by Forbes, we recognize the importance of hiring and developing great talent to provide best-in-class care to the patients and families we serve. Our organizational DNA takes form in our core values: Compassion, Excellence, Integrity, Collaboration, Equity and Innovation. Whether it’s delivering frontline care to our patients in a kind and caring manner, practicing the highest standards of quality and safety, or being relentlessly curious as we work towards eradicating childhood diseases, these values are the fabric of our culture and community. The future starts here.
The people who work at Seattle Children's are members of a community that seeks to respect and celebrate all the qualities that make each of us unique. Each of us is empowered to be ourselves within this community, which cultivates and promotes equity, diversity, and inclusion at all levels.
Seattle Children's is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Workplace and Affirmative Action Employer.