Join the world’s largest multidisciplinary organization dedicated to improving the care of patients with advanced heart or lung disease through transplantation, mechanical support and innovative therapies.
The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) is searching for an experienced marketing and communications professional who will serve in a key leadership role, responsible for planning, developing and executing comprehensive marketing and communication strategies. This is an expanded position for the organization and is an excellent opportunity for an experienced, highly motivated marketing professional to create a robust, fully integrated, data driven program.
Reporting to the CEO and working closely with our team, you’ll help address the challenges of today’s volatile and dynamic environment for our members, for ISHLT and for associations in general.
You must have outstanding organizational skills, the ability to perform independently and as part of a small, high-performing team, supervisory experience and proven success managing volunteer and vendor relationships.
You must be passionate about communicating our story externally and to our membership - to drive new members to the organization, to stimulate member engagement, and to ensure we’re communicating our value clearly.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Planning, Management, Measurement
Develop an integrated communications and marketing strategy to promote the organization’s objectives and activities, with an annual activity plan. Manage and execute the strategy, measure results.
Responsibility for programs including but not limited to the ISHLT website; ISHLT’s newsletter; social media strategy; live and virtual event promotion
Identify and recommend audiences for all communications. Tailor messages.
Work collaboratively with staff to ensure a unified message to the marketplace; coordinate messages to various audiences, ensuring appropriate cadence and frequency
Identify, budget and manage required resources to achieve goals.
Monitor and track marketing efforts for performance and adjust as necessary. Use a data-based decision-making approach.
Create a marketing and communications plan for each ISHLT event, including budgets, goals, activities and timelines for each
Marketing and Communications
Execute strategy and plans
Develop, write and edit content
Manage consultants/vendors, including designers, website vendors, etc.
Develop and support branding strategy
Ensure universal quality communications; edit and proofread writing of other team members as needed
Social Media
Execute Social Media strategy
Prepare and support leaders and members to engage on social media on behalf of ISHLT
Public Relations
Improve the Society’s media outreach and amplify ISHLT values and messages
Create and distribute media releases as appropriate
Plan and manage media activities around the annual meeting
Committee Support
Serve as staff liaison and manager of a portfolio of related committees and task forces.
QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of five years of experience in marketing and communications required, with a strong preference for association and healthcare-related fields.
Excellent strategic thinking skills, forward thinker who able to connect marketing strategies and expertise with the mission and priorities of the organization
Creative. You are full of new ideas and recommendations. You develop thoughtful messaging and are willing and able to move beyond traditional marketing approaches to create new and innovative ways to connect with target audiences.
Hands-on. You manage changing priorities without difficulty and do whatever it takes to get the job done. You always have your team’s back; you enjoy working hard and rolling up your sleeves with the team.
Effective program manager. You can multitask and manage multiple projects simultaneously, deftly bringing projects to completion.
Continuously adapts to changes and effectively navigates through ambiguity; decides and acts without having the picture totally defined; appropriately changes strategy in response to new information
Metrics-driven. You see the big picture, monitor your key performance metrics, and take the action necessary to bring about change.
Relationship builder. Your collaborative nature allows you to build consensus within any group. You are adept at understanding the issues and constraints groups face and have an intuitive sense of how to find common ground among stakeholders, zeroing in on priorities and possibilities.
Strong communicator. You have an exceptional ability to communicate with staff and stakeholder and build confidence at all levels. You can deliver critical and complex information to a variety of audiences in a credible and presentable way and can challenge and be challenged in intellectual debate.
Builder. You are comfortable working through ambiguity and can operate with little structure, charting your own path when no rules exist. You have a head for triage and are confident and steadfast in a crisis or the face of uncertainty; you identify what needs to be done first, anticipate needs down the line, and carefully steward resources to create grand impact.
Respectful. You value different points of view and listen, digest, and synthesize information, even when you disagree. You work effectively with people at every level of the organization and every kind of background. You consistently treat customers, members, stakeholders, partners, and the board with dignity and respect.
Mission-driven. You are results-driven and service-oriented. You provide support for stakeholder needs, both internally and externally.
Additional Work Requirements:
Ability to travel up to four (4) times per year.
NOTES:
Additional Salary Information: ISHLT offers a competitive salary with excellent benefits. We value a culture of shared success, development, equity and inclusion. You may work fully or partially virtual, depending on location. We offer an excellent benefits package, including insurance, discounts, retirement program matching and generous time off.
About International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation
The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation is the world’s largest organization dedicated to research improving the care of patients with advanced heart or lung disease through transplantation, mechanical support and innovative therapies. ISHLT members represent more than 15 different professional disciplines, committed to international, multidisciplinary education and advocacy. For more information, visit www.ishlt.org.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, creed, disability, gender, gender expression, place of origin, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
