Marketing/Communication Specialist

Title: Marketing/Communication Specialist

Salary Range: Commensurate with experience

Contract Term Length: 12 Months

Standard Hours: 37.5

Work Location: On-Site

FLSA Status: Exempt

College: Owensboro Community & Technical College

Campus Location: Owensboro Community College

Department: HealthForce Kentucky

Total Rewards

Benefits

Owensboro Community & Technical College offers a competitive benefits package and an attractive work environment that supports excellence, innovation, and creativity, including:

• Exceptional health care, vision, and dental coverage for you and your family
• Tuition reimbursement/waiver for you, your spouse, and dependents
• 403(b) retirement plan: a 5% employee contribution receives a 10% employer match
• Vacation/Sick Time
• Work-Life Balance
• 9.5 Paid Holidays
• 2 Weeks Institutional Closing Pay (Last 2 weeks of December) for qualifying positions
• Employee Assistance Program
  
  

Job Summary

HealthForce Kentucky – Owensboro, KY is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to developing pipelines and pathways for P-12 and postsecondary students to enter healthcare professions throughout the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Learn more about: HealthForce Kentucky: HealthForce Kentucky https://www.healthforcekentucky.org - Owensboro, Kentucky OCTC: https://owensboro.kctcs.edu - Owensboro and surrounding areas: https://visitowensboro.com

HealthForce Kentucky, in partnership with Owensboro Community and Technical College, is seeking a qualified and motivated individual for the position of Marketing/Communication Specialist. This role will report to the Chief Executive Officer.

This position employs a variety of communication, sales, and marketing methods in areas related to public relations, preparing crisis communications, internal communications, executive communications, social media, advertising/digital marketing, recruitment materials, develop lead generations, visits sites and work with customers to schedule events, and Strategic Engagement Management plans/communications to support the organization’s goals.

Job Duties

• Generate leads and follow-up with contacts, promote the program, and engage potential customers to schedule events.
• Work cooperatively and collaboratively with HealthForce Team and interface with multiple organizations.
• Research and translate complex subject matters to produce content for fact sheets, brochures, articles, newspapers, videos, digital signage, and other internal/external communications.
• Track analytics of website and digital traffic.
• Monitor, organize, update and inventory marketing and communication materials.
• Extensive travel is up to 75%; overnight stays up to 50% of the time. Home most weekends.
• Other duties as assigned.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business management, marketing, communication or similar with six (6) years of relevant work experience or equivalent.
• Valid, unincumbered driver’s license is required.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree and eight (8) years of relevant experience is preferred.
  
  

Additional Skills Requested

• Perform duties with expert knowledge of concepts, practices, and procedures.
• Proactively recognize business needs and impact of issue at hand; identifies and implements new creative solutions, (both short/long term) that may extend beyond assigned area.
• Autonomy in decision-making for daily activities; ability to be a self-starter, operate independently, provide strategic initiative with management. May provide general guidance, mentorship, or indirect supervision to colleagues. Provide site visits to promote program awareness and engagement of potential customers.
• Communicate directly with program leadership; expected to provide direction to external contacts. Must work cooperatively and collaboratively with others.
• Responsible for task assignment and coordination. Apply institutional policies and procedures.
  
  

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Equal Opportunity Employer - The Kentucky Community and Technical College System is an equal educational and employment opportunity institution.