Job Description

How to Apply

A cover letter is required for consideration for this position and should be attached as the first page of your resume. The cover letter should address your specific interest in the position and outline skills and experience that directly relate to this position.

Job Summary

In addition to the instructions above, your cover letter should:

• include a link to your portfolio (highly preferred) or include at least five (5) examples (not preferred), and
• address each of the Required and Desired Qualifications below using a one sentence example, e.g. “in my time at X company, I used Adobe Creative suite for Y years to do A, B, and C”.

Remote-First Policy

This department employs a remote-first work policy.  Office and meeting space is available as needed and will be occasionally required, but remote work is supported and encouraged as appropriate.

Role Environment

Michigan Medicine is home to 20+ Collaborative Quality Initiatives (CQIs) – coordinating centers which seek to address some of the most common, complex, and costly areas of surgical and medical care (www.uofmhealth.org/q…ality-collaboratives).

With funding from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM), CQIs work collaboratively with health care providers throughout Michigan to collect data in a centralized registry. The data are analyzed and shared to identify processes and changes that will lead to improved delivery of care and outcomes, and guide quality improvement interventions.

Each CQI is composed of a team of professionals whose core values include: teamwork, flexibility, responsiveness, continuous improvement, and attention to detail.

Role Summary

The person in this position will work closely with the program directors, program managers, and staff of:

• the Michigan Collaborative for Type 2 Diabetes CQI (MCT2D, www.mct2d.org),
• the Michigan Kidney Improvement Collaborative CQI (MKIC, kidneyquality.org), and
• the Healthy Behavior Optimization for Michigan CQI (HBOM, hbomich.org)

to increase the visibility of each CQI’s work and achievements in creative and engaging but concise and straightforward ways.

The person in this position will be expected to do this by integrating various design techniques and utilizing a variety of design approaches in order to convey complex information to patients and their families and support networks, and physicians, nurses, specialists, support personnel, and hospital administrators across the State of Michigan.

The complete list of stakeholders for this position are: each CQI’s program directors, program managers, and staff; patients and their families and support networks; and physicians, nurses, specialists, support personnel, and hospital administrators.

This position reports to the Clinical Informatics Design Lead for MCT2D, MKIC, and HBOM.

Mission Statement

Michigan Medicine improves the health of patients, populations and communities through excellence in education, patient care, community service, research and technology development, and through leadership activities in Michigan, nationally and internationally.  Our mission is guided by our Strategic Principles and has three critical components; patient care, education and research that together enhance our contribution to society.

Why Join Michigan Medicine?

Michigan Medicine is one of the largest health care complexes in the world and has been the site of many groundbreaking medical and technological advancements since the opening of the U-M Medical School in 1850. Michigan Medicine is comprised of over 30,000 employees and our vision is to attract, inspire, and develop outstanding people in medicine, sciences, and healthcare to become one of the world’s most distinguished academic health systems.  In some way, great or small, every person here helps to advance this world-class institution. Work at Michigan Medicine and become a victor for the greater good.

What Benefits can you Look Forward to?

• Excellent medical, dental and vision coverage effective on your very first day
• 2:1 Match on retirement savings

Responsibilities*

Leadership (10%)

1. Provide graphics expertise and vision on a wide range of design projects.
2. Take ownership of the design process while working with our stakeholders.
3. Have the patience, flexibility, communication, and leadership skills to lead the ideation, design, multiple revision, and production process in order to produce pragmatic art that balances the needs and demands of our stakeholders, time, our budget, the medium, and human use.
4. Be an active voice regarding content strategy, user-centered design, marketing, equity in design, and accessibility.

Core Duties (60%)

1. Create original visual media for our stakeholders that will convey complex healthcare data and information in a straightforward way.
2. Visual media will include: high-end web and print graphics, short animations and videos, social media graphics, templates, slide decks, infographics, brochures, fact sheets, and user interface components.
3. Maintain a repository of all design-related projects as well as a library of branded assets.

Collaboration and Communication (25%)

1. Collaborate with the Clinical Informatics Design Lead, the Clinical Informatics Strategist, the web developer, the data visualization designer, and our stakeholders.
2. Pitch multiple options for the design direction for projects.
3. Provide individual and group consultation and training for various design and multimedia needs across the CQI teams.
4. Hold quarterly design workshops and presentations.

Research (5%)

1. Conduct visual research to find the best storytelling approaches for the CQIs via multiple communication channels.
2. Regularly research best practices for graphics outreach in health care, public health, health behavior change, and their adjacent fields.

Required Qualifications*

• A bachelor degree in Multimedia Design, Graphic Design, or other related fields – or equivalent experience.
• The ability to conceptualize, craft, revise iteratively with critiques from stakeholders, and present original media designs.
• Advanced skills in Adobe Creative suite, with the ability to evaluate, choose, and learn the right tools for each job.
• Experience producing both web and print media assets.
• Experience developing and deploying visual branding standards.
• The ability to set priorities, meet deadlines and work independently.
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to juggle multiple projects while still working effectively.
• Demonstrated effort advancing equity and inclusion in your work or workplace.
• Experience producing content and creating a visual strategy for social media, print, and web marketing campaigns.

Desired Qualifications*

• Motion graphics/animation experience.
• Original digital illustration experience.
• Photography and/or videography experience.
• Marketing campaign content production and visual strategy experience.
• Health care, medicine, public health, health education, social services, and higher education experience.

Background Screening

Michigan Medicine conducts background screening and pre-employment drug testing on job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent job offer and may use a third party administrator to conduct background screenings.  Background screenings are performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Report Act. Pre-employment drug testing applies to all selected candidates, including new or additional faculty and staff appointments, as well as transfers from other U-M campuses.

Application Deadline

Job openings are posted for a minimum of seven calendar days.  The review and selection process may begin as early as the eighth day after posting. This opening may be removed from posting boards and filled anytime after the minimum posting period has ended.

U-M EEO/AA Statement

The University of Michigan is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

How to Apply

Job Categories: Equal Opportunities. Job Types: Full-Time. Salaries: 60,000 - 80,000.

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