Communications Coordinators Sr

Senior Communications Coordinator

The Sr. Communications Coordinator provides project leadership for communications initiatives generated from the Mesulam Institute for Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease. Manages specific communications projects across the entire Institute and ensures that projects meet Institute goals. Serves as the primary internal communications editor, determining content strategy for print and electronic publications and providing oversight, guidance and support on regular and unique communications activities.

Executes and assists on development of communication strategies and key messages and oversees social media and communication channels to a wide variety of constituents, including internal Northwestern Medicine members, faculty, clinicians and staff as well as external partners including the broader scientific community, philanthropic and advocacy organizations, other Alzheimer's Disease Centers, the larger Northwestern Medicine public community, patients and families.

Functions as in-house brand manager, developing graphics and recruitment materials for Institute's research team, ensuring that all collateral adheres to FSM and University brand guidelines. Provides leadership, counsel, and resources for supported teams and community partners, including sharing best practices, maintaining photo and video assets related to the Institute, partnering on and leading collaborative multi-team projects, developing project briefs and original content for a variety of needs and channels, and advising groups on communications strategies and implementation.

Serves as liaison between the Mesulam Institute and Feinberg Office of Communications, in addition to other University-wide work groups.

The Mesulam Institute is a multi-departmental freestanding component of the Feinberg School of Medicine. We serve patients with neurological diseases that interfere with cognition and behavior. Areas of research include healthy brain aging, memory impairment, Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal degeneration, primary progressive aphasia and related dementias. Administrative headquarters are located on Tarry 8, where clinicians and investigators in multiple disciplines have contiguous offices and laboratories.

Our Institute represents more than 50 core and affiliated faculty members from 14 departments in the Chicago and Evanston campuses of Northwestern University.

Specific Responsibilities include writing, designing, and distributing a periodic e-newsletter for patients and their families, writing, designing and distributing a similar news update e-newsletter for internal audiences, developing, managing and expanding all contact lists with relevant personnel/organizations, managing and growing all Mesulam Institute social media outlets, writing content, designing posts, creating a monthly calendar and launching campaigns, attending Mesulam Institute related events on an as needed basis including possible evening or weekend events, providing back up support on event coordination for Institute programming, including annual Alzheimer Day and the Alzheimer's Disease Seminar Series, designing, managing and continually updating Mesulam Institute website, collaborating with Feinberg's Communication team to meet FSM website standards and optimize website for digital accessibility and SEO, writing content, updating faculty pages and events, recommending website enhancements, and utilizing best practices for SEO, ensuring visibility within the Feinberg School of Medicine by regularly pitching stories for inclusion in Northwestern Medicine magazine, Breakthroughs podcast, and other media, designing flyers and Constant Contact email campaigns for all Mesulam Institute communications;

including, but not limited to: community engagement events, patient and family programs and services, Mesulam Institute Seminar Series, research results dissemination, and others as assigned, providing major communications and event support for the Mesulam Institute's Annual Alzheimer Day, including but not limited to: creating and updating conference Abstract Book, designing and disseminating sponsorship packet, managing all external and internal communications and related listservs, and designing any and all event materials including but not limited to signage, flyers, print invitation, logos, and other branded event materials, managing the hire and supervision of the Communications Intern, managing digital asset library for the Institute,…