Digital Content Specialist

Northwestern University; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 63,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision, disability, &

Paid vacation and holidays

Tuition benefits for employee and depd

Pre-tax & flexible spending accounts

Generous retirement savings options

Wellness programs

Job summary

The Office of Communications at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern Medicine tells the story of its departments, institutes and centers through integrated marketing communications. We seek a writer/editor to create original digital content, conduct interviews, and write features for multiple channels.

You will work with medical school leadership, faculty, and staff to identify storylines, manage an editorial calendar, arrange multimedia assets, and lay out

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in journalism, marketing, humanities, or related field; or an appropriate education/experience combo.
• Excellent writing and editing; experience across digital channels.
• CMS and social media expertise; understanding of audience engagement.
• Knowledge of layouts, web/video standards, and photography.

Responsibilities

• Create original digital content (articles, audio, video, images) to support Feinberg’s reputation marketing across channels.
• Identify story ideas, conduct interviews, and write feature and news stories for electronic media.
• Coordinate with leadership, faculty, and staff to identify storylines and manage editorial calendar.
• Arrange photos, audio, and video for stories; produce and lay out stories in CMS.
• Collaborate with Marketing and Communications and clinical partners to cross-promote stories.

Skills

Excellent writing/editing

Interviewing

Digital storytelling

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in journalism/marketing/humanities

Tools

CMS

Social media

Job description

Department: MED-Office of Communications

Salary/Grade: EXS/7

Job Summary:

The Office of Communications tells the story of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern Medicine and its multiple departments, institutes and centers to the world through the creation, implementation, and assessment of effective integrated marketing communications. Learn more about our office here: https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/communications/.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Create original digital content (articles, audio, video, images) to support Feinberg’s reputation marketing across all publications and channels: seek story ideas, conduct interviews and write original feature and news stories for electronic communications media channels;
• Connect with medical school and clinical leadership, faculty and staff to identify potential storylines, events, news, and papers, and manage editorial calendar, tracking stories in progress;
• Arrange photos, audio, and video for stories as necessary;
• Produce and lay out stories in CMS;
• Collaborate with Office of Global Marketing and Communications and other University and clinical partners to cross-promote stories; This content is leveraged broadly by development teams, admissions teams, clinical affiliate marketing teams, web and social media teams.
• Serve as a project manager for written, editorial, and multimedia marketing projects, including admissions newsletters, recruitment brochures, and digital signage. May coordinate work of photographers, designers and others involved in marketing projects.
• Write, edit and proofread copy for magazines, newsletters, print materials, websites, podcasts, social media, and all marketing communications materials; input and format email newsletters using content marketing tools.
• Researches distribution and marketing best practices for higher education recruiting and scientific research promotion, and makes recommendations to optimize impact of marketing strategies over time.

Miscellaneous:

• Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Successful completion of a full 4-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's or higher degree in the journalism, marketing, humanities, or a related field.; OR appropriate combination of education and experience.
• Excellent skills in writing and editing; experience working across digital channels to support an integrated and adaptive strategy.
• Expertise in content management systems and/or social media platforms; deep understand of user behavior, storytelling opportunities unique to each platform, and strategies for driving engagement.
• Knowledge of layouts, graphic fundamentals, web, video standards and photography.

Minimum Competencies:

• Excellent writing and editing skills.
• Demonstrated ability to research and write about technical matters for a general population.
• Demonstrated advanced communication and presentation skills.
• Must have organizational skills and the demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities and projects simultaneously.
• Must be self-directed and able to work in a team-based environment with minimal supervision.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in an appropriate field.

Preferred Competencies:

• Knowledge of higher education, medical science and/or healthcare preferred.
• Experience with multimedia storytelling (videography, digital video production and social media publishing platforms) preferred.

Benefits:

• health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance;
• paid vacation and holidays;
• paid medical/sick and parental leave;
• tuition benefits for the employee and dependents;
• pre-tax and flex spending accounts for commuting and dependent care;
• generous retirement savings options;
• and wellness programs.

Work-Life and Wellness: Northwestern offers comprehensive programs and services to help you and your family navigate life’s challenges and opportunities and adopt and maintain healthy lifestyles. We support flexible work arrangements where possible and programs to help you locate and pay for quality, affordable childcare and senior/adult care. Visit us at https://www.northwestern.edu/hr/benefits/work-life/index.html to learn more.

Professional Growth & Development: Northwestern supports employee career development in all circumstances whether your workspace is on campus or at home. If you’re interested in developing your professional potential or continuing your formal education, we offer a variety of tools and resources. Visit us at https://www.northwestern.edu/hr/learning/index.html to learn more.

Northwestern University is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics, including disability and veteran status. View Northwestern’s non-discrimination statement. Job applicants who wish to request an accommodation in the application or hiring process should contact the Office of Civil Rights and Title IX Compliance. View additional information on the accommodations process.

Target hiring range for this position will be between $63,080 to $90,435 per year. Offered salary will be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.