Advocate Health Care

Senior Socal Media Specialist

Advocate Health Care$79K — $118K *
Healthcare
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in communications, journalism, public relations, marketing, advertising, or related field.
  • 5 years of experience managing social media platforms.
  • Strong written and oral communication skills.
  • Advanced expertise in social media management and analytics tools.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office and familiar with WordPress.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement comprehensive social media strategies for Advocate Health.
  • Create daily posts and execute paid ad strategies to enhance brand awareness.
  • Travel to capture photos and videos for social media content.
  • Monitor social media engagement and respond to audience comments promptly.
  • Stay updated on social media trends and incorporate best practices into strategies.
  • Act as a liaison for promoting content through social media.
  • Support live event coverage and create compelling stories from community initiatives.

Benefits

  • Paid Time Off programs.
  • Health and welfare benefits including medical, dental, and vision.
  • Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare expenses.
  • Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave.
  • Educational Assistance Program.
Full Job Description
Department:

11593 Enterprise Corporate - Communications

Status:

Full time

Benefits Eligible:

Yes

Hours Per Week:

40

Schedule Details/Additional Information:

  • This role will support Enterprise social efforts with an enhanced focus on Wake Forest University School of Medicine and our Innovation Quarter.
  • This role is mostly remote, but candidates must be local to Winston-Salem market to routinely be on site to capture content and provide event and activation coverage.
  • Primary hours are first shift, but occasional night or weekend event coverage will be necessary.


Pay Range:
$38.20 - $57.30

You will develop, execute and contribute to Advocate Health's social media strategy to facilitate access, awareness and engagement on Advocate Health's social media platforms. This position will produce content that will be You will be responsible for developing and implementing comprehensive social media strategies, lead campaigns, and analyze performance metrics to optimize future efforts, as well as creating, designing and writing content for brand's social media audiences as well as additional tasks, including but not limited to executing paid strategies, editing content, monitoring and responding on social channels, proofreading, creating videos and social media graphics.

Major Responsibilities:

  • Contributes to development of the overall social media strategy through posting regularly on all of Advocate Health's platforms (i.e. Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, etc.) to inform internal and external stakeholders what the Advocate Health brand offers, to increase engagement, maintain reputation and promote system and generate buzz around marketing campaigns.


  • Crafts strategies, creates daily posts and implements paid ad strategies for platforms with branded and professional images that increase brand awareness, build reputation and foster engagement amongst our communities.


  • Travels to locations to photograph and film evergreen and on-trend content for social media.


  • Consistently monitor pages to ensure comments within community are appropriate, and promptly addresses community comments, reviews, questions and/or concerns.


  • Stays ahead of social media content industry news and best practices. Provides input into strategic direction for brand's social media channels. Participates in creative brainstorming sessions to develop new, more effective ways of engaging social space.


  • Assists as liaison between operations and system teams to support content through social media promotion (internally and externally). Assists community management coverage.


  • Executes on day-to-day reputation management strategies and monitors all social channels to ensure our consumers are being responded to in a timely manner.


  • Provides support and coverage at community and partner events and serves as a live in-person social media support for system-wide and site events, sports partnership events, community initiatives, etc. Collaborates with students. patients, families, associates and clinical professionals to develop interesting and compelling stories through our partnerships and events that enhance the brand.


  • Maintains running monthly editorial calendars including pre-approved posts supporting brand and organizational goals.


Licensure, Registration, and/or Certification Required:

  • None Required.


Education Required:
  • Bachelor's degree in communications, journalism, public relations, marketing, advertising or other business-related field, or bachelor's degree combined with relevant experience.


Experience Required:
  • Typically requires 5 years of experience in day-to-day management of social media platforms.


Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required:

  • Organized and detail oriented.


  • Strong written and oral communication skills.


  • Ability to operate independently in a self-directed, deadline-driven environment.


  • Ability to collaborate effectively with all levels of clinicians, management, executives, etc.


  • Advanced expertise in social media management and analytics tools, Microsoft Office products and familiarity with WordPress.


  • Ability to develop social media strategies and tactics and effectively communicate recommendations to external communications leadership, under the guidance of social media leadership


  • A flair for creating persuasive content and communicating effectively (and differently) depending on the medium.


  • Proactive, independent and takes initiative with consistent follow through. Results oriented.


  • Superior time management skills, with capability of working with and meeting deadlines. Ability to handle tasks and complete work accurately and within a short timeframe.


  • Ability to think critically, seek understanding of complex concepts, work to synthesize information, and create clarity to support sound decision-making.


  • Strategic thinker with ability to work in a team environment on initiatives that drive business results.


  • Thrives in a fast-paced environment, having a change mindset and comfortable navigating ambiguity.


  • Strong interpersonal communications skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with others.
  • Ability to mentor junior team members and lead projects.


  • Excellent oral and written communications and relationship development skills.


  • Manage timelines, ensuring efficiency and effectiveness of communication activities.


Preferred:
  • Experience working in a large, matrixed organization
  • Ability to create and edit content from start to finish
  • Ability to multi-task coverage during a live event
  • Knowledge of different creation and editing tools or programs


Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:

  • Position requires some work on weekends and outside of normal business hours.
  • Position requires some local, regional, national and market travel.


  • Operates all equipment necessary to perform the job.


  • Must be able to sit, stand, walk and bend throughout the workday.


  • Position requires travel therefore may be exposed to weather and road hazards.


  • Protective clothing must be worn as necessary.


DISCLAIMER

All responsibilities and requirements are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only responsibilities to be performed by an employee occupying this job or position. Employees must follow any other job-related instructions and perform any other job-related duties requested by their leaders.

Our Commitment to You:

Advocate Health offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs, competitive compensation, generous retirement offerings, programs that invest in your career development and so much more - so you can live fully at and away from work, including:

Compensation
  • Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training
  • Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate's job
  • Incentive pay for select positions
  • Opportunity for annual increases based on performance


Benefits and more
  • Paid Time Off programs
  • Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
  • Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
  • Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
  • Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
  • Educational Assistance Program


Note: Eligibility for programs listed above may depend on your FTE or status (e.g., full-time, part-time, per diem, temporary, etc.); please ask a Recruiter for more information during an interview.

About Advocate Health Care

Advocate Health Care is a not-for-profit, faith-based health system providing comprehensive health care services to the people of Illinois. The organization is the largest fully integrated health care delivery system in Illinois, with more than 500 sites of care and 12 hospitals, including two of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals, the state’s largest integrated children’s network, five Level I trauma centers (the state’s highest designation in trauma care), three Level II trauma centers, one of the area’s largest home health and hospice companies and one of the region’s largest medical groups. Advocate Health Care trains more primary care physicians and residents at its four teaching hospitals than any other health system in the state. As a not-for-profit, mission-based health system affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the United Church of Christ, Advocate contributed $1.6 billion in charitable care and services to communities across Chicagoland and Central Illinois in 2019.
Learn more about Advocate Health Care
Size
75,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1976

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