Reports To:  Chief Operating Officer, Greenhealth Management

Supervises:  None

FTE Status:  Part-Time, 15 hours/week, Contract, 100% Greenhealth Management

Posting Date:  March 11, 2025

Closing Date:  April 1, 2025

Salary Range:   $21,262.50 – $24,037.50

We are looking for someone who knows how to get the word out about the Greenhealth Approved seal. The seal is used to signal the market that products meet the sustainability criteria of Health Care Without Harm. The seal is newer to the market and buyers and suppliers need to be educated on the value of the seal. Why should buyers select products that carry the seal? Why should suppliers have their products vetted to carry the seal? This position will identify communication channels and develop content to enhance the recognition of the Greenhealth Approved seal throughout the healthcare industry.

Organizational Overview

Together with several leading U.S. health systems, Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth launched Greenhealth Exchange , the first green purchasing cooperative that facilitates the procurement of products and services that are good for people and the planet.

Health Care Without Harm  seeks to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint and becomes a community anchor for sustainability and leader in the global movement for environmental health and justice. We have a unique and dynamic workplace with more than 80 staff members in the U.S. and abroad. We believe health care, as the only sector with healing as its mission, has an opportunity – and obligation – to use its ethical, economic, and political influence to create an ecologically sustainable, equitable, and healthy world. Health Care Without Harm works to achieve its mission in collaboration with Practice Greenhealth, the leading sustainable health care organization, delivering environmental solutions to more than 1,700 hospitals and health systems in the United States and Canada.

Position Description

Promotes the Greenhealth Approved program through social media, white papers, assistance with presentation documents and similar channels. Liaises with Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth’s Communications team to ensure consistent messaging between organizations. Identifies opportunities to educate the market on the program and value proposition. Creates Greenhealth Exchange’s annual benefits report.

Primary Objectives

Communicate and educate Providers, Suppliers and intercompany staff on the Greenhealth Approved program. The primary objective for these communications is to grow the program with new supplier products and provider demand.

Essential Functions

Greenhealth Approved

• Enhance and increase social media presence through more consistent and meaningful messaging.
• Collaborate with internal and external subject matter experts to ensure diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are centered in our digital and content strategies.
• Create messaging documents (electronic with the assistance of Health Care Without Harm graphic design expertise) to be used for outreach to suppliers individually and at trade shows.
• Identify communication channels (new and existing) and create content around the Greenhealth Approved program.
• Create the annual benefits report for Greenhealth Exchange.
• Provide general communications related support as needed.
• Collaborate with Practice Greenhealth program teams where appropriate to ensure opportunities for cross communications are optimized and messaging is consistent.
• Performs all other duties as assigned.

Job-Specific Competencies Required:

• Advanced communication skills such that position can interact with positions in a healthcare system or facility.  This includes being able to identify key communications points that resonate with suppliers and providers around Greenhealth Approved.
• Strong marketing and communications skills including social media, press release development, trade show materials and annual report development
• Basic understanding of group purchasing.
• General knowledge of sustainability, preferably related to supply chain.
• Proven track record of process improvement and systems management.
• High proficiency in MS Office applications.
• Cross functional team experience.

Qualifications

• Minimum Education: Bachelor’s degree in communications or related field. Combined experience/education as a substitute for minimum education.
• Minimum Experience: Five years’ experience in health communication, preferably in marketing in group purchasing or supply chain. Strong written communication skills, as well as the ability to adopt style, tone, and voice.
• Preferred Experience: Strong customer service and process improvement experience.
• Preferred Education: Graduate degree preferred (English, journalism, communications, or related discipline).
• Preferred Field of Expertise: Experience working with Google Workspace, Adobe Creative Suite, Mailchimp, website content management systems. Ability to work within a complex NGO and remote team environment. Self-motivated, ability to manage multiple initiatives in a fast-paced environment and excel under tight deadlines. Some background in video, graphic design, and/or photo editing.

What’s In It For You?

• Join an organization where your colleagues share a profound commitment to the mission, and a global network of partners work collaboratively to support it.
• Play a vital role in helping drive growth, influence impact, and further advance our efforts to create a more sustainable health care sector and planet.
• Be part of an inspirational global network.
• Flexible and supportive work environment.

To Apply or Inquire

Health Care Without Harm/Practice Greenhealth/Greenhealth Management are committed to cultivating and sustaining culturally and ethnically diverse organizations and to the principles that promote inclusive practices. We believe systems can only be transformed when a diversity of voices, perspectives, and lived experiences are a part of the movement for change. We are dedicated to building a diverse staff with expertise and interest in addressing systemic racism within our organization and to serve the mission of the organizations in respectful ways. Health Care Without Harm/Practice Greenhealth/Greenhealth Management is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

To apply, upload a cover letter along with your resume via this link. Questions can be addressed to jobs@hcwh.org. Only competitive candidates will be invited to participate further in the recruitment process. Closing date to apply is April 1, 2025. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.