External Communications Senior Manager
for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Include only sections that have real specific content. Remove boilerplate, etc. We need to parse the posting. Key sections: - About the role: The first paragraph(s) describing role: "POSITION LOCATION: Hybrid Under the direction of the Senior Director of Strategic Communications, the External Communications Senior Manager oversees the strategic execution of external communications for Boston Medical Center Health System (BMC Health System) and is responsible for advancing media relations, thought leadership, and conference and forum engagement that directly promotes and benefits BMC Health System’s profile and reputation. The External Communications Senior Manager will work with executive and clinical leadership, providers, and other stakeholders across the health system to develop and implement a broad, proactive external communications strategy and tactics in support of BMC Health System’s strategic goals, with a focus on high-priority initiatives and audiences and externally trending opportunities. The External Communications Senior Manager will also work closely with Communications leaders to advance strategic initiatives and support issues management. All engagements should underscore BMC Health System’s approach to modeling a transformational kind of excellence in healthcare where clinical and operational innovation meets health equity and access. Your Chance to Be Part of a Team That is Making a Difference This is a unique opportunity to join a growing and dynamic Marketing and Communications team that is building our reputation and making a difference in the lives of our patients and community members. We are looking for visionary team players who want to be part of our mission to boldly transform healthcare. We offer our employees an array of wellbeing services, competitive pay, and a wide range of benefits, including a highly subsidized health care plan for employees and their family members." We can treat that as About the role. - Responsibilities: The "Essential Responsibilities / Duties" bullet list. We need to extract each bullet as
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1. Proactively identifies and develops breakthrough opportunities in collaboration with senior administrators and clinicians to draw attention to BMC Health System’s key focus areas.
2. Provide executive communications support for strategic messaging, speaking opportunities, and conference management.
3. Develops proactive media relations plans and manages media inquiries, ensuring opportunities align with BMC Health System strategies and objectives.
4. Stays abreast of national and local health news and communications trends to forecast reputational headwinds and tailwinds and keep system leaders informed.
5. Ensures value-consistent, quality, and compelling news and thought leadership content, including press releases, feature articles, op-eds, podcasts, blogs, speaker remarks, and social media posts.
6. Works closely with leaders across BMC Health System hospitals, WellSense Health Plan, Clearway Health, Oakwell, Boston HealthNet, and other entities to identify reputational opportunities and manage risks.
7. Serves as spokesperson across BMC Health System to manage reputational risks and respond to crisis situations.
8. Identifies and develops spokespeople who can best represent BMC Health System in the media and external events, lead media training, and support speaking engagements.
9. Oversee emergency communications and incident response media relations support for BMC Health System.
10. Directly supervise a Communications Specialist. Assign work, performance manage, and promote professional development.
11. Focus on driving BMC Health System’s key initiatives with metrics and reporting.
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- Requirements: "Required Education & Experience Bachelor's degree required, and a minimum of ten years of external communications, media management, and related operational experience." Also maybe "Preferred Education And Experience Master’s degree preferred. At least five years of strategic planning and management of a team is preferred." Also "Certifications, Licenses, Registrations Required N/A" and "Preferred N/A". Since N/A is placeholder, we should not include sections with only N/A. So we can combine Required Education & Experience and Preferred Education And Experience into Requirements? The instruction: Use headings for Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to decide what goes where. Typically "Required Education & Experience" is Requirements. "Preferred Education And Experience" could be Qualifications? Or maybe Qualifications includes both required and preferred? But we have separate headings: Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. We need to map content.
We have:
- Required Education & Experience: Bachelor's degree required, minimum ten years external communications, media management, related operational experience.
- Preferred Education And Experience: Master’s degree preferred. At least five years of strategic planning and management of a team is preferred.
- Certifications, Licenses, Registrations Required N/A (skip)
- Certifications, Licenses, Registrations Preferred N/A (skip)
- Knowledge, Skills & Abilities: list of skills.
Thus we can put:
Requirements: Bachelor's degree required, and a minimum of ten years of external communications, media management, and related operational experience.
Qualifications: Master’s degree preferred; at least five years of strategic planning and management of a team preferred.
Skills: Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills. Proven ability to translate a strategic plan into tactical excellence. Capable of communications program development, implementation, metrics, and evaluation. Must be highly organized self-started, able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced and complex organizational environment. Proficient in standard client software in a healthcare office setting (i.e., MS Word, Excel, Access, Web Browsers, etc.).
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Benefits: The posting mentions: "We offer our employees an array of wellbeing services, competitive pay, and a wide range of benefits, including a highly subsidized health care plan for employees and their family members." Also later in compensation section: "In addition, BMCHS offers generous total compensation that includes, but is not limited to, benefits (medical, dental, vision, pharmacy), discretionary annual bonuses and merit increases, Flexible Spending Accounts, 403(b) savings matches, paid time off, career advancement opportunities, and resources to support employee and family well-being."
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- items: array of wellbeing services, competitive pay, wide range of benefits including highly subsidized health care plan for employees and family members; benefits (medical, dental, vision, pharmacy); discretionary annual bonuses and merit increases; Flexible Spending Accounts; 403(b) savings matches; paid time off; career advancement opportunities; resources to support employee and family well-being.
Pay: Compensation Range $97,500.00- $141,500.00 plus description. We'll include Pay section with
containing the range and note that it's based on minimum qualifications etc. We should preserve all substantive info. So include the range and the note about determination. Schedule: Not mentioned. Hybrid location mentioned but not schedule. No schedule info. So we should not create Schedule section. Also we have "POSITION LOCATION: Hybrid". Could be included in About the role or maybe as a short p. But we should not create a heading for it. We can fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. The instruction: "do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
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for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). Use
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About the role
Hybrid. Under the direction of the Senior Director of Strategic Communications, the External Communications Senior Manager oversees the strategic execution of external communications for Boston Medical Center Health System (BMC Health System) and is responsible for advancing media relations, thought leadership, and conference and forum engagement that directly promotes and benefits BMC Health System’s profile and reputation. The External Communications Senior Manager will work with executive and clinical leadership, providers, and other stakeholders across the health system to develop and implement a broad, proactive external communications strategy and tactics in support of BMC Health System’s strategic goals, with a focus on high-priority initiatives and audiences and externally trending opportunities. The External Communications Senior Manager will also work closely with Communications leaders to advance strategic initiatives and support issues management. All engagements should underscore BMC Health System’s approach to modeling a transformational kind of excellence in healthcare where clinical and operational innovation meets health equity and access. Your Chance to Be Part of a Team That is Making a Difference This is a unique opportunity to join a growing and dynamic Marketing and Communications team that is building our reputation and making a difference in the lives of our patients and community members. We are looking for visionary team players who want to be part of our mission to boldly transform healthcare. We offer our employees an array of wellbeing services, competitive pay, and a wide range of benefits, including a highly subsidized health care plan for employees and their family members.
Responsibilities
- Proactively identifies and develops breakthrough opportunities in collaboration with senior administrators and clinicians to draw attention to BMC Health System’s key focus areas.
- Provide executive communications support for strategic messaging, speaking opportunities, and conference management.
- Develops proactive media relations plans and manages media inquiries, ensuring opportunities align with BMC Health System strategies and objectives.
- Stays abreast of national and local health news and communications trends to forecast reputational headwinds and tailwinds and keep system leaders informed.
- Ensures value-consistent, quality, and compelling news and thought leadership content, including press releases, feature articles, op-eds, podcasts, blogs, speaker remarks, and social media posts.
- Works closely with leaders across BMC Health System hospitals, WellSense Health Plan, Clearway Health, Oakwell, Boston HealthNet, and other entities to identify reputational opportunities and manage risks.
- Serves as spokesperson across BMC Health System to manage reputational risks and respond to crisis situations.
- Identifies and develops spokespeople who can best represent BMC Health System in the media and external events, lead media training, and support speaking engagements.
- Oversee emergency communications and incident response media relations support for BMC Health System.
- Directly supervise a Communications Specialist. Assign work, performance manage, and promote professional development.
- Focus on driving BMC Health System’s key initiatives with metrics and reporting.
Requirements
Bachelor's degree required, and a minimum of ten years of external communications, media management, and related operational experience.
Qualifications
Master’s degree preferred; at least five years of strategic planning and management of a team preferred.
Skills
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Proven ability to translate a strategic plan into tactical excellence.
- Capable of communications program development, implementation, metrics, and evaluation.
- Must be highly organized self-started, able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced and complex organizational environment.
- Proficient in standard
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- items: array of wellbeing services, competitive pay, wide range of benefits including highly subsidized health care plan for employees and family members; benefits (medical, dental, vision, pharmacy); discretionary annual bonuses and merit increases; Flexible Spending Accounts; 403(b) savings matches; paid time off; career advancement opportunities; resources to support employee and family well-being.
Pay: Compensation Range $97,500.00- $141,500.00 plus description. We'll include Pay section with
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Benefits: The posting mentions: "We offer our employees an array of wellbeing services, competitive pay, and a wide range of benefits, including a highly subsidized health care plan for employees and their family members." Also later in compensation section: "In addition, BMCHS offers generous total compensation that includes, but is not limited to, benefits (medical, dental, vision, pharmacy), discretionary annual bonuses and merit increases, Flexible Spending Accounts, 403(b) savings matches, paid time off, career advancement opportunities, and resources to support employee and family well-being."
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