Our metro New Jersey healthcare client is hiring a PR & Media Relations Manager (Contract). Be responsible for championing the organization’s brand through public communications and media relations. This includes maintaining and growing a media presence across all business/trade and news outlets/channels (print, broadcast (TV and radio) and social media) in the metro NY/NJ area and actively monitoring all outlet/channel activity. This is initially a 15-20 hours/week, open-ended contract role that could grow over time. Offsite is an option but does require an experienced professional with solid metro NY/NJ area media contacts.

Responsibilities:

• Establishing, growing, managing, and monitoring presence for organization’s newsworthy stories
• Creating timely, unique, relevant content and sharing communications about the organization progress and updates on appropriate channels
• Expanding and maintaining relations with local, regional, and national business/trade and news outlets
• Understanding news cycles and knowing how to maximize them for ultra story reach
• Assisting in the development of stakeholder and community engagement plans
• Counseling members of the leadership team prior their appearance in the press as a representative of organization in the public eye
• Writing tight pitches, op-eds, media plans, blogs, podcasts, and other relevant materials
• Preparing briefing documents prior to media and public appearances
• Securing coverage for major organization events such as groundbreakings, medical initiatives, new practice openings, etc.
• Understanding and building target customer profiles to increase visibility of and participation in numerous annual and ad-hoc campaigns
• Making decisions on media inquiries consistent with organizations priorities and commitments
• Collaborating with other internal teams to secure information for content creation
• Assisting with crisis response
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree required
• 8-10 years of experience within healthcare in a similar role
• Ability to develop long-form and short-form content that effectively reaches relevant audiences
• Comfort and confidence as a spokesperson
• Responsible, enthusiastic, and cares about working in a mission-focused organization
• Exceptional interpersonal skills including the ability to influence, lead, and educate others
• Experience in people management and conflict resolution
• Demonstrated ability to cultivate collaborative working relationships with a variety of stakeholders
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities
• Ability to proactively identify problems and implement solutions
• Willingness to be held accountable and receive feedback
• Comfortability with technology including MS Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint)