Overview
**Create Your Career With Us!**
**Sanford Health is one of the largest and fastest-growing not-for-profit health systems in the United States. We’re proud to offer many development and advancement opportunities to our nearly 50,000 members of the Sanford Family who are dedicated to the work of health and healing across our broad footprint.**
**Facility:** 3801 Building
**Location:** Bemidji, MN
**Address:** 3801 Bemidji Ave N, Bemidji, MN 56601, USA
**Shift:** 8 Hours – Day Shifts
**Job Schedule:** Full time
**Weekly Hours:** 40.00
**Starting Rate:** $21.50 – $34.50
**Department Details**
Fast paced environment. Ability to work in both media and marketing. Opportunity to tell and share the stories of patients, employees and our organization to the region. Build connections with operations and our clinicians to promote the amazing work we do.
**Job Summary**
The Media Relations Specialist is part of the Sanford Health media relations team and is responsible for supporting key activities for the media relations and Sanford Health News teams. This position will be a hybrid role and will also assist the team as a marketing specialist. Works closely with the enterprise and regional media relations teams on tasks.
The specialist works with marketing and event teams to provide support for all major media events including press conferences, briefings and other major announcements.
Schedules and books interviews for media relations team. Manages the media relations teams’ news calendar. Ensures activities and stories are represented appropriately on the master editorial/content calendar. Compiles daily news stories to populate daily news alerts.
Pulls regular performance reports on earned media and Sanford Health News. Develops and maintains “fact sheets” library for specific service lines and businesses. Provides support for media relations events including logistics, press-kits and schedule coordination.
Partners with the social media team to produce and distribute media recaps for major media events/hot topics. Ensures media recaps are standardized and delivered consistently to stakeholders.
Maintains media contact lists in media software tools. Schedules and distributes press releases through the designated media software tool. Conducts media story research as needed. Provides general administrative support for the media relations team.
Excellent communication skills and knowledge of AP-style required.
**Qualifications**
Bachelor’s degree required in communications, journalism or related field.
**Benefits**
Sanford Health offers an attractive benefits package for qualifying full-time and part-time employees. Depending on eligibility, a variety of benefits include health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan, work/life balance benefits, and a generous time off package to maintain a healthy home-work balance. For more information about Total Rewards, visit https://sanfordcareers.com/benefits .
Sanford is an EEO/AA Employer M/F/Disability/Vet. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation for help with your online application, please call 1-877-673-0854 or send an email to talent@sanfordhealth.org .
Sanford Health has a Drug Free Workplace Policy. An accepted offer will require a drug screen and pre-employment background screening as a condition of employment.
**Req Number:** R-0170366
**Job Function:** Marketing and Communications
**Featured:** No
