Media Manager, Higher Education & Healthcare

Position Summary

This role will lead media relations and influencer engagement for our Healthcare and Higher Education sectors. As a key member of this integrated sector marketing team, you’ll shape how the world sees DLR Group’s Healthcare and Higher Education design expertise and thought leadership. You will collaborate with the sector marketing leader, design teams, and subject matter experts to develop content and build relationships with industry media, trade associations, and key influencers.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in integrated marketing communications, public relations, journalism, or a related field
• 5+ years of marketing communications experience in a professional services environment, preferably the A/E/C industry
• Demonstrate a sense of urgency to manage and prioritize multiple concurrent deadlines
• Strategic thinker with exceptional oral communications, writing, and editing skills, with the ability to articulate a clear point of view on complex issues in clear, concise communications
• Strong interpersonal skills to foster relationships and navigate cross functionally across different firm teams and with outside partners
• Keen understanding of integrating marketing tactics with traditional and social media as part of communications campaigns to attract, engage, convert, and retain clients and talent
• Strong project and people management skills – ability to quickly build consensus, and positively ‘manage up’ to get senior level individuals to support established processes with input and insight in a timely manner

Preferred Qualifications

• Public Relations/Media Relations experience in the Healthcare and/or Higher Education industry, preferably in the AEC or design industry
• Demonstrated track record of measurably high-impact media campaigns
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, especially InDesign; proficiency in Microsoft Suite, including PowerPoint and Teams
• Familiarity with information recording and gathering from a database, ideally MuckRack and Deltek Vantagepoint

Pay Range

$70,000 - $95,000 USD

About the Role

DLR Group is an integrated design firm with a promise to elevate the human experience through design. This fuels the work we do around the world and inspires our mission to improve the lives of our clients, our communities, and our planet. If this sparks your interest, you’re in the right place.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, disability, wellness programs
• Flex spending
• Paid holidays
• Paid time off
• 401(k) plan
• Employee stock ownership
• Bonus opportunities

Contact Information

We are 100% employee-owned: every employee is literally invested in our clients’ success. At the core of our firm are interdisciplinary teams engaged in every step of project lifecycles. Our teams champion true collaboration, open information sharing, shared risk and reward, value-based decision making, and proficient use of technology to deliver exceptional design. We are pursuing the goals of the 2030 Challenge, the ME2040, and the SE2050, and are an initial signatory of the China Accord and the AIA 2030 Commitment.

Work Model

We follow a four-day in-office work model, with employees having the flexibility to work somewhere other than the office on Fridays.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/M/F/Veteran/Disabled employer.