Community Engagement Strategist - Northern Wisconsin Market

• This role will have a focus on rural health strategy, partnering with the community and community partners, and activating programs.

You will support the development, alignment, execution, and evaluation of community engagement strategies from conception to implementation. You will work in partnership with leaders in designing and implementing Advocate Health community engagement strategy and action plan to achieve defined goals across the assigned division.  You'll cultivate manages long-term relationships that influence Advocate’s Health’s reputation, awareness, and social impact with teammates, patients, and community partners.  In this role you will implement and activate plans in line with best practices and Advocate Health’s core values, mission, priorities, and overall business strategy.

• →Support the development and execution from creation, distribution, management, and implementation of defined community engagement programs.
• →Ability to manage a wide range of relationships with community partners, internal and external stakeholders, and track interactions with these groups.
• →Maintain and utilize community engagement tracking tools to provide full record of activities, to compile data, and to develop reports.
• →Participates in meetings, events, symposiums, or initiatives, in community engagement involvement by providing regular updates, identifying challenges, and reporting on a project plan.
• →Work collaboratively with other internal departments. Serving as an Advocate Health representative on committees (internal and external community coalitions).
• →Build and maintain strategic partnerships with community stakeholders including local elected officials, nonprofits, corporate partners, public health officials, and foundations while continually assessing and making recommendations for appropriate level of funding and mutually beneficial engagement opportunities.
• →Communicate, advance, emphasize, prioritize programs and makes recommendations regarding community investment opportunities.
• →Identify healthcare and community engagement trends and support management in the developing the Advocate Health Community Engagement strategy.
• →Support the development of an execution model from creation, distribution, management, and implementation.
• →Participate in reporting on related and respective programs using defined key performance indicators. Retrieve, test, measure, evaluate, and recommend insight research to ensure effectiveness of community engagement campaign and social impact results.
• →Reenforce the organization’s brand identity and guidelines through community engagement efforts.  
• →Develop key performance indicators that are measurable in design and execution in collaboration with leadership.

• Bachelor's Degree in Public Relations, Public Health, Business or related field.

• Typically requires 3 years of experience required in community relations, non-profit management, corporate giving, or corporate responsibility. Familiarity with corporate social responsibility programs, local community organizations, programs, and nonprofit groups.  

• Excellent relationship management skills
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills required
• Exceptional PowerPoint, MS Word and Excel skills required
• Self-directed with excellent time management and detail orientation
• Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced healthcare environment with tight deadlines
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects at once
• Adaptability based on changing needs of the organization
• Requires reading, comprehension, and editing materials.
• Requires clear and effective communication.

• Have an understanding of the current organizational landscape 
• Ability to fully embed themselves within the community and across our hospital sites
• Experience using MS Planner and/or Salesforce

• This position requires travel to various Advocate locations and markets, with occasional nights and weekends required. Therefore, they will be exposed to weather and road conditions.
• Exposed to typical office environment.
• Operates necessary equipment to perform the job.

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.

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:

Advocate Health is the third-largest nonprofit, integrated health system in the United States, created from the combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health. Providing care under the names Advocate Health Care in Illinois; Atrium Health in the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama; and Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin, Advocate Health is a national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Advocate Health services nearly 6 million patients and is engaged in hundreds of clinical trials and research studies, with Wake Forest University School of Medicine serving as the academic core of the enterprise. It is nationally recognized for its expertise in cardiology, neurosciences, oncology, pediatrics and rehabilitation, as well as organ transplants, burn treatments and specialized musculoskeletal programs. Advocate Health employs 155,000 teammates across 69 hospitals and over 1,000 care locations, and offers one of the nation’s largest graduate medical education programs with over 2,000 residents and fellows across more than 200 programs. Committed to providing equitable care for all, Advocate Health provides more than $6 billion in annual community benefits.