Senior Advisor

About Jarrard, Inc.

Jarrard Inc. is a U.S. Top 10 strategic communications consulting firm focused exclusively on healthcare. Founded in 2006, the firm has worked with more than 1,500 clients across 48 states and has led communications and political strategy on $75+ billion in announced M&A and partnership transactions. Jarrard partners with leaders across the spectrum of healthcare in high stakes moments of growth, innovation, change, and reputational/public affairs challenges. This array of specialized services is tailored to support leaders in the most impactful parts of the ecosystem that are essential in transforming U.S. healthcare for the better. In 2020, Jarrard Inc. joined Chartis, one of the nation’s leading healthcare advisory firms, and operates as a division under an independent brand. Chartis is a comprehensive advisory firm dedicated to transforming healthcare. With an unparalleled depth of expertise in strategic, clinical, financial, and digital transformation. Chartis helps leading academic medical centers, hospitals and health systems, integrated delivery networks, children’s hospitals, physician enterprises, payers, and healthcare service organizations achieve transformative results.

Role Overview

Jarrard is seeking a Senior Advisor to help lead key client projects with the nation’s most prominent healthcare organizations. The work requires a strong communications foundation, excellent writing skills, and demonstrated project management experience. Senior Advisors serve on multiple client teams and are essential to meeting our clients’ needs in high-stakes moments of change, challenge and opportunity. This is an in-person position. Candidates must live in Chicago, IL or Nashville, TN or be willing to relocate to either city.

Responsibilities

• Develop initial drafts and drive the editing process of client materials
• Edit materials of other team members, as appropriate
• Conduct media pitching, outreach, and monitoring
• Draft weekly/monthly results reports
• Research in support of client projects and/or their business
• Gain an increasingly sophisticated understanding of industry and competitor issues and trends relevant to client markets and the healthcare industry
• Offer proactive, value-added suggestions to enhance client work (i.e., asking the right questions, managing up to ensure deliverables are met in a timely manner, etc.)
• Timely reporting to manager, colleagues, and team leads
• Implement other tasks as assigned by manager or team lead
• Weekly self-planning and time management

Qualifications And Desired Skills

• Have earned a bachelor’s degree; communications, public relations, journalism, or political science focus is beneficial
• Passion for working in the healthcare industry
• 3-5 years’ experience in a preferred combination of a communications role, professional services firm (healthcare focus is preferred) and/or journalism
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Deliver work on time to achieve client commitments
• Demonstrate strategic thinking that leads to quality deliverables and program implementation
• Effectively plan and manage their own time as well as for their teams
• Be a team player, with natural collegiality and desire for collaboration
• Adept at managing multiple priorities and switching gears throughout the day
• Embrace the Jarrard Vision, Mission, and Values