Boston Medical Center (BMC) · 10 hours ago
Manager, External Communications & Reporting
Boston, MA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$90K/yr - $132K/yr
5+ years expBoston Medical Center (BMC) is dedicated to advancing discovery and access to care while partnering with communities. The Manager of External Communications leads the execution of the external communications strategy, manages media engagement, and supports the creation of compelling content to enhance BMC's reputation.
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Responsibilities
Stays abreast of national, health, and local news and communications trends to proactively develop monthly media engagement strategy plans and execute in collaboration with administrators and clinicians critical to the execution of the monthly plan
Organizes and prioritizes incoming media requests and develops the recommended response approach
Leads the preparation of media and external organization briefing documents and external talking points that will guide BMC Health System spokespeople on how to best and consistently represent the health system
Develop and manage an internal spokesperson council to ensure we have informed clinicians ready to engage in incoming media requests
Supports the development of compelling and values-consistent news content, including new releases, op-eds, podcasts, blog and social posts
Optimizes and manages reporting tools to strategically drive our internal narrative through the sharing of critical news of note
Leverages reporting data to inform our month-over-month proactive media engagement strategies and to increase Communications metrics acumen across the BMC Health System organization
Reviews and supports patient-facing content
Provide external engagement counsel to administrators and clinicians as they seek to elevate their work externally
Serves as key member of team responding to emergency and other crisis media situations, including providing on-call after-hours communications support
Maintains excellent relationships with key healthcare and other reporters, editors, columnists, and producers
Serves as in-house media relations advisor and liaison to key faculty and executives
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree required, preferably in a related field
5-8 years progressive experience in communications, including public relations, media relations, journalism, or a directly related field, is required
Experience in healthcare is required, and hospital media relations experience (particularly academic medical center experience) is desirable
Proven track record developing effective media relations strategies and managing high profile proactive and reactive media interactions
Excellent working relationships with members of the media
Knowledge of local and national healthcare and medical issues and environment
Must possess ability to work collaboratively across teams in large, fast-paced and complex organizational environment
Demonstrated ability to research and analyze complex issues
Excellent writer and editor with keen attention to detail
Strong verbal communicator
Benefits
Competitive pay
Highly subsidized health care plan for employees and their family members
Medical
Dental
Vision
Pharmacy
Discretionary annual bonuses
Merit increases
Flexible Spending Accounts
403(b) savings matches
Paid time off
Career advancement opportunities
Resources to support employee and family well-being
Company
Boston Medical Center (BMC)
Boston Medical Center (BMC) is a 511-bed, equity-led academic medical center and a proud member of the Boston Medical Center Health System.
5001-10000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
Boston Medical Center (BMC) has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (53)
2024 (51)
2023 (51)
2022 (38)
2021 (26)
2020 (32)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$342.49MKey Investors
AmeriCorps Public AlliesNational Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)The Boston Foundation
2024-07-09Grant· $0.06M
2023-02-23Debt Financing· $232M
2019-04-23Grant· $89M
Leadership Team
David Beck
Senior Vice President & Chief Legal Counsel
Recent News
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