Program Coordinator, Speakers Bureau and Strategy - Hybrid

Join the transformative team at City of Hope , where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope's growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago, and Phoenix. our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

The Program Coordinator, Speakers Bureau & Storytelling is an integral member of our Content Strategy, Storytelling & Social Media team. This position, reporting to the Operations & Speakers Bureau Manager, is responsible for cultivating and maintaining a comprehensive patient and internal talent community to serve as ambassadors and spokespersons for City of Hope as we drive increased awareness of City of Hope, our mission and brand across a range of system-wide initiatives and activations including earned media, social media, marketing campaigns, advocacy initiatives, and internal and external events. This includes supporting operations, implementing strategies, and capturing metrics to ensure a high quality and effective program which provides patient and faculty talent and spokespeople for system-wide initiatives. The incumbent will moderate the Speakers Bureau request portal and email inquiries to fulfill requests from both internal and external partners. The incumbent will collaborate with internal stakeholders to gain strategic insight for speaker placement opportunities, and work with Operations & Speakers Bureau Manager to determine and implement strategic next steps. The incumbent will proactively collaborate across the content strategy team and help curate relationships with staff to story mine and identify prospective talent for the program. The incumbent will partner with Social Media and Storytelling colleagues, to develop strategy for story amplification. The incumbent will support the expansion and evolution of the Speakers Bureau program, lending project management skills to implement a growth plan which will diversify the program, increase program size, modernize program functionality and ensure programmatic support of the City of Hope mission system wide.

As a successful candidate, you will:

• Implement strategies for a comprehensive speaker's bureau program, including marketing, promotion, speaker training, recruitment, and relationship management with patient and faculty participants.
• Support talent placement and/or participation in a wide range of communications, marketing and event opportunities.
• Demonstrate compassion, sensitivity and integrity in working with patients, their families and other stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Speakers Bureau Manager to evolve the Speakers Bureau program strategy, offerings and operations.
• Proactively lead collaborations across Content Strategy Team and curate relationships with faculty to story mine and identify prospective patient and staff talent for program.
• Obtain, review for validity, and submit PHI, talent release and vendors forms to appropriate teams.
• Work with new patient, caregiver and COH talent ambassadors to develop their stories and identify the best platforms for storytelling.

Your qualifications should include:

• B.A. in Communications, Marketing, Public Administration or other relevant discipline; 4 additional years of experience plus the minimum experience requirement may substitute for minimum education.
• 2-3 years in public relations, communications, or similar field.

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