Communications Specialist

Northern Cochise Community Hospital • Willcox, AZ

13d • Onsite

About The Position

Northern Cochise Community Hospital is seeking a full-time Communications Specialist to support communications, public relations, marketing, digital engagement, and community outreach for our Critical Access Hospital and rural health clinics. This on-site role is ideal for a creative, organized communicator who enjoys developing clear messages, building relationships, supporting events, and helping share the story of NCCH’s services, providers, partnerships, and community impact.

Requirements

• Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Strong knowledge of public relations, marketing, branding, media relations, and community engagement.
• Experience developing communication campaigns, digital content, and materials across multiple platforms.
• Ability to support multimedia content, including photography, videography, graphic design, and visual storytelling.
• Strong organization, attention to detail, project management, and problem-solving skills.
• Confidence using Microsoft Office, social media platforms, website or content management tools, and communication or design software.
• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Public Relations, Marketing, Journalism, Graphic Design, Public Health, Business, or a related field preferred.
• An equivalent combination of education and relevant experience may be considered.
• Two years of progressively responsible experience in communications, public relations, marketing, journalism, media relations, community engagement, or a related field is preferred.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in health care, nonprofit, community outreach, public service, or a related setting preferred.
• Strong public speaking and presentation skills, with the ability to engage effectively with both large and small audiences.

Responsibilities

• Plan, promote, and support community events, health fairs, educational programs, fundraising activities, outreach initiatives, and special projects.
• Develop and support communications, public relations, marketing, and community engagement strategies that advance NCCH’s mission and strategic goals.
• Create, edit, and coordinate communication materials for print, digital, media, internal, and external audiences.
• Develop content for social media, websites, email communications, storytelling, promotional campaigns, and other digital platforms.
• Support multimedia projects such as photography, videography, graphic design, visual storytelling, and promotional materials.
• Assist with media relations, including press releases, media inquiries, interviews, outreach, and coverage monitoring.
• Collaborate with leadership, providers, departments, community partners, sponsors, media representatives, consultants, and vendors.
• Use engagement metrics, marketing analytics, media coverage, and event outcomes to evaluate communication efforts and recommend improvements.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level