Join UI Health Care’s Marketing and Communications department as a Community Engagement Specialist.  As a key member of the team, you will be responsible for developing and implementing strategic events and community partnerships that advance health education, strengthen statewide relationships, and elevate the institution’s visibility and impact. The role helps tell the story of UI Health Care’s commitment to Iowans by connecting people to programs, resources, and opportunities that support better health across the state.

Position Responsibilities:

Message Development and Implementation 

• Assist in developing and delivering communications that promote educational programs and institutional priorities. 

• Support outreach for community partnership initiatives. 

• Draft materials such as event summaries, partner communications, and promotional content. 

• Coordinate with internal teams to help amplify engagement opportunities and program visibility. 

Public Relations 

• Collaborate across departments to support community outreach efforts. 

• Assist the planning and implementation of virtual, on-campus, and off campus community education programs and events.  

• Help manage logistics and communications for special events like open houses and ribbon cuttings. 

• Promote involvement in events and programs through targeted outreach and messaging. 

• Represent UI Health Care at community activities and maintain engagement with key stakeholders.   

• Provide event support, as needed, to the Event Specialist. 

Information Management 

• Support the collection and reporting of outreach-related data. 

• Manage inventory of event collateral and community outreach SWAG 

• Respond to requests and manage UI Health Care event collateral checkout process and SWAG giveaway requests. 

• Help create presentations and impact summaries that highlight program reach and success. 

• Create surveys, collect, enter and pull program and attendee data using various analytic tools including Net Promoter Score, Qualtrics, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Access Database. 

• Collaborate with UI Health Care department colleagues to gather and accurately record and report UI Health Care community benefit data. 

• Assist in preparing project summary reports, fiscal year-end summaries, and presentations to share our impact and success with constituents and key stakeholders. 

• Contribute to the organization of data and content that demonstrate the value of UI Health Care’s outreach work. 

Strategic Planning 

• Support the execution of outreach and engagement plans that align with department goals. 

• Help identify opportunities for collaboration with community organizations. 

• Assist in evaluating success metrics for community and educational programs. 

• Contribute ideas and insights to department planning discussions.   

Financial Responsibility 

• Review and assess sponsorship requests and make recommendations to leadership.  

• Negotiate sponsorship benefits and value-added opportunities with community partners.  

• Monitor community sponsorship expenses and prepare reports to present to leadership.   

Supervision/Leadership 

• Provide direction, assignments, and management of student workers as needed.   

• Follow UI and UI Health Care policies and help ensure compliance in all activities.   

Work schedule: Monday – Friday, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. with occasional nights and weekends required

Pay level:            4A

Candidates must meet all required qualifications.

Successful candidates will be required to self-disclose any conviction history and will be subject to a criminal background check and credential/education verification. This position is not eligible for University sponsorship for employment authorization now or in the future.