Seattle Children's · 1 week ago
Senior Communications Specialist, PR
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$89K/yr - $133K/yr
5+ years expSeattle Children's is a leading pediatric hospital dedicated to providing exceptional care and advancing pediatric research. They are seeking a Senior Communications Specialist to manage public relations initiatives, develop communication strategies, and oversee media relations to enhance the hospital's visibility and engagement with the community.
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Responsibilities
Collaborate with stakeholders to identify compelling stories and manage, develop and pitch content for Seattle Children’s
Develop external communications strategies and responses for crises and issues
Oversee proactive and reactive media relations in order to secure local, regional and national media coverage
Developing media target lists and pitches
Developing talking points
Working with internal clients and teams, patients and their families and coordinating interviews
Leading media training sessions for spokespeople
Take on other duties as assigned
Assist in leading and mentoring staff and team members
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in communications, marketing, journalism, public relations or closely related field
A minimum of five (5) years experience in a marketing and/or communications role
Exceptional attention to detail
Excellent writing and editing skills
Ability to produce high-quality content in a timely manner
Flexible and proactive
Willing to take on new challenges
Ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment and under pressure
Preferred
Experience in proactively pitching and placing media stories
Experience in the health care or scientific fields
Experience in crisis communications and issues management across several topics
Experience in developing stories and content for owned and earned channels
Experience managing multi-faceted projects with complex timelines
Experience in crafting reactive statements
Experience in writing and copyediting journalistic news and feature articles, media pitches, social media content and spokesperson talking points
Experience with clinical and research audiences
Experience serving as a company spokesperson
Experience pitching local, regional and national media and securing coverage of issues, products and services
Experience media training spokespeople
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision plans
403(b)
Life insurance
Paid time off
Tuition reimbursement
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Company
Seattle Children's
Hope. Care. Cure. These three simple words capture what we are here to do.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$0.72MKey Investors
Fund for Science and TechnologyScaleReadyHyundai Hope On Wheels
2025-08-27Grant
2025-01-08Grant· $0.12M
2024-08-28Grant· $0.4M
Leadership Team
Eric Althoff
Director Of Business Development - Seattle Children's Therapeutics
Howard Jeffries
Senior Medical Director, Strategy & Regional Network
Recent News
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