Senior Advisor, Healthcare Communications

About Jarrard, Inc.

Jarrard Inc. is a U.S. Top 10 strategic communications consulting firm focused exclusively on healthcare and the unique opportunities and challenges inherent in this sector. 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.

Across both Jarrard and Chartis, we are fortunate to have extraordinarily talented people working in our firm – all brought together around our unifying mission “tom improve healthcare”, a shared dedication to our core values, and the emphasis we place on creating an environment that enriches the experiences of our clients, our colleagues, and our communities.

Jarrard has offices in Nashville, TN and Chicago, IL. This is a hybrid role and Senior Advisors are required to work in-person at one of our office locations 1-2 days per week.

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.

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

• Embraces the Jarrard Vision, Mission, and Values

What You Can Expect from Us:

• High stakes work that makes healthcare better

• An inclusive and collegial workplace with understanding, innovative co-workers who care as much as you do about getting the work right

• Encouragement to ask probing questions and openness to new ideas

• Creative problem solving alongside clients who see you as a partner, not a vendor

• Investment in your growth and development via our competency-based talent development platform

• Competitive pay and benefits

Salary range: $65,000-70,000, plus may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. The salary range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, skills, experience, training, licensure and certifications, practice area, and other business and organizational needs. In addition, Chartis offers several benefits including medical, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, disability insurance, life insurance, 401(k) match, paid time off, wellness stipend, and additional voluntary benefits.

At Chartis, we pride ourselves on having a diverse workforce. We value and celebrate the uniqueness of individuals and the different perspectives the provide. We offer equal opportunity employment regardless of race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, marital status, or protected veteran status.