Online Strategy and Communications

The Advisory Board Company (NASDAQ: ABCO)

www.advisory.com

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About The Advisory Board Company

The Advisory Board Company (NASDAQ: ABCO) is a leading health care services firm providing best practices insight, leadership development, implementation, and technology solutions. The company currently serves over 2,800 of the country's preeminent hospitals and health care systems as well as pharmaceutical and medical device companies and insurers. Our continually expanding business portfolio provides employees with significant opportunities for career development at an accelerated pace, while an employee-focused internal environment places emphasis on service ethic, spirit of generosity, team engagement, and continuous learning.

Our current opportunity is based in Washington, D.C.

Interested applicants should apply on our corporate site: https://corporate-advisory.icims.com/jobs/7006/job

About the position

Do you consume most of your information online? Of course you do—and so do health care professionals.

We’re seeking a web editor with the online and editorial know-how to optimize our users’ online experience and ensure consistency across the website. In addition to independently maintaining sections of advisory.com and producing related e-newsletters, the web editor will also aggregate, develop, write, and edit content.

The ideal candidate will possess strong editorial, communication, organizational, and project management skills, as well as a level of technical proficiency.

Daily responsibilities:

·         Write and edit web-based content

·         Produce email communications and manage online presence for a number of products

·         Publish content to website in a timely and thoughtful manner

·         Track website and email usage data

·         Create images in Photoshop

·         Maintain editorial consistency across the website

Ongoing responsibilities:

·         Make strategic decisions based on data analysis

·         Collaborate with researchers and experts to effectively position research and technologies

·         Manage consistent content production pipelines for various products

·         Maintain industry knowledge across a diverse range of topics

·         Negotiate, prioritize, and manage concurrent projects

·         Plan and organize web strategy based on big picture firm goals and priorities

Basic Qualifications:

          Bachelor’s degree

          Excellent academic record

·         Demonstrated writing and editing experience in a professional environment

Ideal Qualifications:

·         Degree in journalism, communications, or online media

·         Confidence, patience, and flexibility in an evolving environment

·         Poise and presence in counseling senior management on online strategy

·         Ardent ability to build positive relationships with a range of internal partners

·         Proven to be organized, task-oriented, proactive, independent, and deadline-driven

·         Experience creating, adapting, and unifying content specifically for the web

·         Online publishing or marketing experience

·         Basic working knowledge of HTML

·         Proficiency in the following: Flash, Photoshop, Fireworks, web analytics, social media, streaming audio and visual, blogs, podcasts, SEO, CSS, XML, other web/programming languages, and AP style. 

Benefits:  Consistent with our belief that our employees are our most valuable resource, The Advisory Board Company offers a competitive benefits package, including a comprehensive health plan, a 401(k) plan, an Employee Stock Purchase Plan, a daytime leave policy for community service, a medical flexible spending account, and additional attractive benefits.

An Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer

Interested applicants should apply on our corporate site: https://corporate-advisory.icims.com/jobs/7006/job