Health Media Jobs and Opportunities: Online Health Community Manager and More
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Featured Opportunity
Social and Community Editor, Everyday Health
About: EverydayHealth.com is seeking an aggressive, innovative individual to manage our health and fitness Social accounts, help recruit and direct our expert contributor network, and research and communicate Social and community building best practices to our editorial staff. This individual should have a consuming interest in Social experiences – and experience engaging audiences on major Social platforms. Strong communication skills, a willingness to accept new challenges, and an interest in health are essential. Professional experience in journalism or social marketing – or equivalent educational background – is strongly preferred.
Location: New York, NY
Medium: Online
Status: Full-Time
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Health Policy Fellow, Dartmouth College, The Dartmouth Institute: Center for Population Health
About: The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical practice (TDI) is a dynamic force within Dartmouth College dedicated to improving health care through education, research, policy reform, leadership improvement, and communication with patients and the public. As a Health Policy Fellow you will work with and meet the leading experts driving national health care reform,including the Director of the Center for Population Health Elliott Fisher, and experience the day-to-day challenges of implementing the most talked-about delivery-system reform of the day, Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs).
Location: Hanover, NH
Status: Temporary
Senior Writer, Health Dialog (via monster.com)
Location: Boston, MA
Status: Full-time
Job Purpose: Working as part of a team, the incumbent will execute on Health Dialog’s external communications strategy by developing high quality written communications for an array of communications initiatives.
Health Editor, TakePart (via mediabistro.com)
Location: Beverly Hills, CA
Status: Full-Time
Medium: Internet/Online/New Media
Information: Oversee and produce daily health-related content that aligns to the socially relevant editorial mission of TakePart. Topics of particular importance: access to care, the health care system, access to and cost of pharmaceuticals, childhood obesity, and global pandemics.
Senior Media Relations Professional, SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW)
Location: Oakland, CA or Los Angeles, CA
Status: Full-time
Information: SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW) is a progressive, statewide California union made up of 150,000 healthcare workers who work in hospitals, nursing homes and in the community as home care providers. They are hiring a senior media relations professional to develop and implement media relations and communications strategies that educate the public and build support for our efforts to improve the healthcare system with our mission to provide quality care for all patients, expand access to excellent, affordable healthcare for all Californians and improve living standards for all workers.
Health Reporters- Freelance, California Health Report
Location: Bakersfield, Coachella, Fresno, Merced, Salinas and other Central Valley cities, California
Status: Freelance
Requirements: The California Health Report (healthycal.org) is a non-profit news site covering public health and health-related policy in California. The site is edited by Daniel Weintraub, a veteran California journalist. They are looking for freelance journalists. They offer some assignments and leads but also welcome good story ideas from reporters in the field. Their site is the best guide to the kind of stories they publish, so please take a close look at it before contacting us.
Intern, Men’s Health
Location: Emmaus, PA
Status: 6 Months
Medium: Online/Print
Requirements: Men’s Health Editorial, the world’s leading men’s magazine, is currently seeking editorial interns to work in a full-time paid capacity from January through June 2013 in their Emmaus, Pennsylvania offices.
Healthcare Editor, Vendome
Location: New York, NY
Status: Full-Time
Medium: Online/Print
Requirements: The B2B publisher of Healthcare Informatics, the industry-leading source of information technology and IT strategy news for healthcare care for CIOs, CMIOs and clinical informaticists, is looking for a Web-savvy entry level editor with excellent reporting and writing skills.