Assistant Director, Administration and Planning
Publicado el 2009-10-22 11:26:06 [0 comentarios]
Owner, Lynn Hazan & Associates, Inc.
Assistant Director, Administration & Planning
Administration & Planning- Health Care Non Profit
Ref #0583
Chicago professional association seeks Assistant Director, Administration & Planning, with 3-5 or 5-7 years of writing and project management experience. Health care experience a plus. Support Association’s administrative, governmental affairs and communications activities. Assist Chief Administrative Officer in all areas of responsibility. Report to Chief Administrative Officer (CAO)/Vice President, Governmental Affairs in government affairs department. Must have superb writing abilities and ability to work on deadline. Finalists will be given writing test.
Background
Bachelor’s degree plus substantial work experience in affiliated field; 3-5 or 5-7 years of writing and project management experience. Strong service orientation required. Knowledge of health care and health policy are assets.
Must have excellent communication and exceptionally strong writing skills, including writing, editing and content management. Strong organizational, human relations and administrative skills. Professional, diplomatic, flexible, energetic, service-oriented individual, with ability to work with wide variety of personalities. Must be self-motivated and mature individual, with the ability to work both independently and as part of a team. Must be able to handle multiple projects simultaneously and work behind the scenes in fast-paced environment. Prior association experience desirable. Must be able to work overtime as needed. Potential for some travel within the state.
Responsibilities
Writing - 40%; Project management, meeting and program development - 30%; Special projects, reports, etc. - 30%
•Coordinate and participate in various Governmental Affairs and Communications projects as directed by the CAO. Collaborate with AVP, Communications.
•Build association’s presence on key priority issues.
•Assist AVP, Communications in fielding media and related requests for organization’s officers, including preparation of briefing materials.
•Develop/implement proactive plans for external visibility on key issues.
•Liaison with internal departments on project status/pending assignments.
•Write Governmental Affairs/Communications materials on key issues, including Board reports and two newsletters/month.
•Assist with writing, editing and updating content for sections of organizational web sites.
•Perform internal/external relations functions and activities. Serve as association representative, as required.
•Assist in developing materials for leaders and members. Follow-up on specific initiatives and projects.
•Draft/edit correspondence/talking points, etc.
•Project-manage and support organization’s public awareness campaigns and membership development projects.
•Staff responsibility to develop and implement special member activities.
•Develop and coordinate educational programming for annual meeting. Assist with other aspects of annual meeting, as assigned.
•Assist with development and implementation of survey projects.
Internal Contacts with all divisions within the company. Interact with members and leadership.
External Contacts with health associations and interest groups, physicians, their staffs and others.
Send resume as a .doc to Lynn Hazan, Lynn@lhazan.com, with writing sample and cover letter including salary, and call 312-863-5401 to follow up. We appreciate your follow up call.
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