Strategic Communications Specialist - Clinical Trials Office

Benefits

Qualifications

• •Bachelor's degree in Communications, Marketing or related field
• •Five years of relevant experience in an academic work environment
• •Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license/certification/registration
• •Ability to manage competing priorities with minimal direction
• •Demonstrated skills in MS Office and design software programs, e.g
• •Acrobat DC, Illustrator, Photoshop, Premier, etc
• •Demonstrated experience effectively managing multiple project timelines
• •Excellent written communication skills to draft complex correspondence
• •Outstanding verbal and interpersonal communication skills to be able to interact effectively with all levels of leadership, faculty, research staff, sponsors, and clients
• •Ability to work effectively and efficiently as a team member
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Responsibilities

• •The CTO Strategic Communications Specialist is the face of the operation since they are often the primary developer and distributor of important information about strategic operational changes and improvements
• •The outreach by the incumbent will include not only internal UW research faculty, staff and administrators, but those from our strategic partner institutions as well
• •The position is key for designing and maintaining effective, informative, and creative operating communications and for productively engaging with all of our stakeholders via multiple channels, including websites, staff and leadership forums, operational workgroups, printed materials, etc
• •In addition, the CTO plays a key role in mitigating institutional financial and reputational risks by ensuring strict compliance with the CMS and the FDA regulations and guidelines
• •The CTO Strategic Communications Specialist is a key position to maintain secure, transparent and fully compliant CTO operation
• •CTO Training and Strategic Communications
• •Design, develop, introduce and implement research staff and faculty education and training materials
• •Organize and present information about CTO services and impact in a dynamic, creative and effective way
• •Establish and maintain CTO web presence relevant to all stakeholders that offers meaningful and well-organized information
• •Develop and disseminate timely communication about operational changes, improvements and adjustments to our research community
• •Design, create and introduce effective research study and research subject-facing content and materials to optimize study recruitment and retention strategies
• •Develop and disseminate trial start-up tools and templates for clinical research study teams
• •Identify and effectively collaborate with subject matter experts to serve as resource for content development and presentation
• •Collaborate with various UW programs and our strategic partner institutions in developing new and improving existing training resources
• •Design and establish effective strategy and materials for onboarding of internal staff
• •Continually monitor, evaluate and adjust the training program based on user feedback and operational changes
• •Present strategic training, communication and operating improvement ideas to leadership
• •CTO Brand and Marketing Efforts
• •Accelerate awareness for the UW Clinical Trial Office services and footprint among the key stakeholders, including study teams, investigators, UW departments and divisions, UW leadership, external partner institutions and our sponsors
• •Design, reassess and improve the CTO website structure and content presentation
• •Build and maintain relationships with our investigators, study teams, subjects and sponsors to document and memorialize the UW CTO research success stories
• •Serve as liaison with the UW Medicine, ITHS and Cancer Consortium branding offices
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