Senior Advocacy & 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 mee