Senior Advocacy and Recruitment Specialist

Senior Advocacy and Recruitment Specialist

FSLA Status: Exempt or Non-Exempt

JOB SUMMARY:

The Senior Advocacy and Recruitment Specialist position is a key position within Snow Companies as the position operates at the core of the Snow Companies business model. This position is ultimately responsible for the identification and screening of new Patient Ambassadors™ and establishing and maintaining relationships with clinical trial sites and physician offices. The role requires comfort level in strategic planning and establishing oneself as a subject matter expert, providing project guidance to the company as a whole. The key transferrable skills for these positions are compassion, communication, organization, and resourcefulness.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSBILITIES:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty of a Recruitment and Advocacy Specialist satisfactorily over a sustained period of time, or enter with a pre-existing level of business experience. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The primary job functions and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, those listed.

Relationship Building and Patient Screening:

Recruiting new patients for candidacy in our Patient Ambassador™ programs is crucial to the existence of the company. Senior Advocacy and Recruitment Specialists will have cultivated relationships with the staff of physician offices, clinics, support groups, and other patient-focused organizations through a variety of methods and techniques as deemed appropriate and effective by the Specialist. They use relationships to enhance multiple recruits and use this knowledge to further business objectives. Senior Recruitment and Advocacy Specialists must have the ability to be flexible and continually design new recruitment techniques to find eligible Patient Ambassadors™. They must manage time effectively to meet the competing needs of all brand teams, coordinate schedules with the rest of the team to ensure coverage for our incoming educational hotlines, and be able to manage tight deadlines. A Senior Advocacy and Recruitment Specialist is expected to assist junior team members in overall workflow strategy and provide insight to best practices. Senior Advocacy and Recruitment Specialists must exercise impeccable independent judgment and discretion in determining the best recruitment channels to use, eligibility of potential candidates, and the necessary information and background data to be gathered, all while properly handling sensitive, private health care information. Recruiting specialists own the flow of their day and must be able to formulate, affect, interpret, and implement management policies and operating practices. The recruiting team serves as subject matter experts on recruiting techniques and strategy, and provides insight and direction to the company on best practices and strategic planning. Individuals should anticipate the needs of the client and be prepared in advance for questions. Team members are required to have a good understanding of patient privacy laws (HIPAA) and adverse event (AE) reporting as well as disease knowledge and sensitivity. Professionalism is of utmost importance at all times. Compassion, empathy, time management and organization are crucial to successfully fulfill this role. Collaboration with account team members to keep them informed of recruitment status is essential. Senior team members collaborate to hire and train new team members. Strong teamwork mentality is needed for this position.

Organization:

Members of the Recruitment and Advocacy Team may be asked to simultaneously manage and drive the recruitment for multiple programs, develop relationships with clinical trial sites and physician offices, screen potential Ambassadors, and answer incoming educational hotline calls. Senior team members must do project management and campaign management, ensuring that work is moving at a satisfactory pace, identifying and eliminating hurdles, and meeting timelines.  Therefore, it is important that these employees have demonstrable organizational skills and can give clear examples of their ability to multitask in a high-pressure environment. Additionally, recruiting for live programs requires the ability to keep information and materials organized as well as the ability to lead a team to meet recruiting goals. The importance of privacy means that recordkeeping and file management are crucial.

Resourcefulness:

Recruitment and Advocacy management inherently requires a person to “think on his or her feet.” A demonstrated ability to anticipate hurdles and overcome them quickly and effectively is paramount. 

Collaboration/Teamwork:

The size and nature of our company will require that you work in collaboration with people in other departments. Candidates must demonstrate their willingness/ability to step into other roles as needed to drive the success of the company. Candidates will need to demonstrate their ability to be a contributing member of a team that has goals that are broader than an individual job description or function.

Language Skills/Communication:

Candidates must be able to read and comprehend general documents relating to the pharmaceutical/bio-technology industry that include but are not limited to: medical education, medical periodicals, clinical trial data, package inserts, medical procedures, and industry regulations. Candidates will have demonstrated ability to effectively and professionally communicate with managers, clients, customers, Ambassadors, and the public. Working with patients requires the candidate to exercise discretion and empathy as patients are living with chronic conditions. Fluency in a foreign language is a plus.

Patient Privacy:

The core of our business is working with patients. It is most likely that you will come in contact with Personal Consumer Information (PCI) of patients living with chronic illness. It will be required that you take training courses that include, but are not limited to:

• Snow Policy Training
• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
• Adverse Event (AE) Reporting Training
• U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Training

Education and Experience:

Bachelor's degree (B.A.) from a four-year college or university, or three to five years of related experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience preferred. MPH, RN, or LPN preferred.

The range below represents the low and high end of the base salary someone in this role may earn as an employee of an Omnicom Health Group company in the United States.   Salaries will vary based on various factors including but not limited to professional and academic experience, training, associated responsibilities, and other business and organizational needs. The range listed is just one component of our total compensation package for employees. Salary decisions are dependent on the circumstances of each hire. 

• $55,000 - $60,000

Omnicom Health is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is uniquely distributed, and we’re focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us—we look forward to getting to know you. We will process your personal data in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice.