COMMUNITY OUTREACH COORDINATOR

Long Island FQHC•Garden City, NY

45d

About The Position

Help position LIFQHC as a socially responsible health care provider organization in the diverse underserved minority, immigrant and low-income communities. An individual in this role will work by promoting LIFQHC's services as well as develop and coordinate a comprehensive strategy that help the communities to gain easy access to care at our health centers via relationship building, branding efforts, event organization and collaboration with community partners.

Requirements

College degree required.
1+ years of work experience in Community Outreach, Marketing, Business Development, Sales and/or the healthcare industry.
Must be able to work evenings and weekends.
Willing to travel.
Must have strong communication and writing skills.
Excellent organizational skills.
Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook is required.
Bilingual in English and Spanish

Nice To Haves

Healthcare work experience
3+ years in Community Relations or Community Affairs

Responsibilities

Serve the primary responsibility of connecting with public schools, community-based organizations, colleges, health centers' advisory boards, faith-based organizations, community boards, legislators, county agencies, elected officials and local media as well as other business units like pharmacies, supermarkets, food pantries.
Serve as the PR person to help identify opportunities to promote LIFQHC's services and make presentations to the relevant organizations.
Gather and present the feedback and opinions obtained from internal and external to help improve the name/reputation of LIFQHC and patient satisfaction and to better the service quality.
Create a master event calendar and coordinate with NUMC (hospital), Healthfirst (HF) and other relevant parties to organize and promote events, presentations, and enrollment opportunities.
Work with HF, Community Outreach Staff at the hospital and our health centers to help develop joint events, marketing and branding events and presentations at Family Day events, Faith-Based groups, Town-Hall Meeting, Community Fairs, Health Fairs, Festivals and other venues to help increase enrollment efforts with HF
Prepare weekly/monthly business plans, monthly events calendars, managed care reports and order supplies for events.
Work as the point person with elected officials to help develop partnerships and collaboration at events and programs.