Senior Specialist, Content and Messaging

at Ascension Health in Chicago, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Details

+ Department: Marketing Operations

+ Schedule: Monday – Friday

+ Location: Remote

Benefits

Paid time off (PTO)

Various health insurance options & wellness plans

Retirement benefits including employer match plans

Long-term & short-term disability

Employee assistance programs (EAP)

Parental leave & adoption assistance

Tuition reimbursement

Ways to give back to your community

*Please note, benefits and benefits eligibility can vary by position, exclusions may apply for some roles (for example: Travel, PRN, Short-Term Option, etc.). Actual compensation offer will vary based upon role, education, experience, location, and qualifications. Connect with your Talent Advisor for additional specifics.

Responsibilities

Position Summary:

Ascension is actively seeking an experienced Senior Specialist to join our dynamic Brand Creative team. This pivotal role involves supporting the work of the creative team by providing new copy for advertising, marketing collaterals, digital display ads, TV, video and radio scripts, marketing web landing pages, emails, social posts and other brand expressions. The ideal candidate will be a conceptual thinker who brings big ideas to life through differentiated and unexpected concepts, strategically ensuring messaging conveys engaging solutions across different media to consumers.

Key Responsibilities:

+ Partner with Strategists, Creative Directors/leads, and members of our creative team to bring insight-driven creative concepts to life with thought-provoking creative solutions

+ Copy responsibilities vary and may include producing creative headlines, advertorials, SEO content, calls to action, email, social and web copy, advertising and branding copy or technical copy

+ Use strong conceptual thinking to develop meaningful, targeted content that resonates with various consumer audiences along points in the healthcare consumer journey

+ Apply your expertise in the development of a wide range of cross-channel creative such as campaign integration, video, web pages, digital display, social, email, and print collateral

+ Ability to consume research and performance information/data and provide performance-based frameworks to create aligned messaging

+ Demonstrate a curiosity to stay on top of emerging trends, while keeping the pulse of advertising and design industry shifts and best practices

+ Confidently articulate creative ideas within internal creative reviews and brainstorms

+ Act as a steward for our brand, responsible for maintaining consistency of Ascension language and writing styling across all experiences

+ Partner with market management and strategy teams to ensure creative is on brief, on time and on strategy

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Requirements

Education:

+ High School diploma equivalency with 2 years of cumulative experience OR Associate’sdegree/Bachelor’s degree with 1 year of experience OR 5 years of applicable cumulative job specificexperience required. 2 years of leadership or management experience preferred.

Additional Preferences

Qualifications:

+ Educational Background:

+ Bachelor’s degree in advertising, marketing, communications, journalism, or a related field preferred, or equivalent experience.

+ Experience:

+ 5+ years of direct-to-consumer brand, healthcare, hospitality, or financial services industry experience

+ Creativity and Innovation:

+ A sharp attention to detail when creating assets and messaging

+ A big thinker, tirelessly searching for the breakthrough ideas and concepts

+ Copy responsibilities vary and may include producing creative headlines, advertorials, SEO content, calls to action, email, social and web copy, advertising and branding copy or technical copy.

+ A world-class portfolio that demonstrates conceptual work with flawless execution across all channels (must include examples of digital, social, print, motion, and identity work)

+ Proficient in Google Suite, experience with Salesforce/Marketing Cloud a plus.

+ Project Management:

+ Exceptional attention to detail and project management skills.

+ Communication Skills:

+ Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex creative concepts to internal and external stakeholders. Strong collaboration skills, working effectively in cross-functional teams.

+ Adaptability:

+ Flexibility and adaptability to thrive in a dynamic and rapidly changing creative landscape.

+ Ethical Standards:

+ High ethical standards and a commitment to upholding Ascension’s values and mission.

Why Join Our Team

Ascension associates are key to our commitment of transforming healthcare and providing care to all, especially those most in need. Join us and help us drive impact through reimagining how we can deliver a people-centered healthcare experience and creating the solutions to do it. Explore career opportunities across our ministry locations and within our corporate headquarters.

Ascension is a leading non-profit, faith-based national health system made up of over 134,000 associates and 2,600 sites of care, including more than 140 hospitals and 40 senior living communities in 19 states.

Our Mission, Vision and Values encompass everything we do at Ascension. Every associate is empowered to give back, volunteer and make a positive impact in their community. Ascension careers are more than jobs; they are opportunities to enhance your life and the lives of the people around you.

Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

Ascension will provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all associates and applicants for employment regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, gender, sexual orientation, gender identification or expression, age, disability, marital status, amnesty, genetic information, carrier status or any other legally protected status or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.

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As a military friendly organization, Ascension promotes career flexibility and offers many benefits to help support the well-being of our military families, spouses, veterans and reservists. Our associates are empowered to apply their military experience and unique perspective to their civilian career with Ascension.

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Please note that Ascension will make an offer of employment only to individuals who have applied for a position using our official application. Be on alert for possible fraudulent offers of employment. Ascension will not solicit money or banking information from applicants.

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