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The International Society of Nephrology (ISN) is looking to recruit a Marketing & Communications Coordinator

Summary

• Job Title: Marketing & Communications Coordinator
• Reports To: Marketing & Communications Director
• Department: Marketing & Communications
• Hours: Full time with some out of hours and off-site work and travel as required
• Location: Brussels, Belgium
• Application Deadline: February 25, 2013

Job Objectives

The Marketing & Communications Coordinator is responsible for planning and coordinating marketing and communications activities for ISN’s global events, program initiatives, membership services, and society support. The Marketing & Communications Coordinator works closely with the Marketing & Communications Director and various program and event team members to successfully market and communicate ISN’s activities.

Main Responsibilities

• Developing and managing event marketing plans
• Coordinating the production of promotional materials (postcards, advertisements, email templates) for ISN’s events Coordinating, planning and sending out email campaigns, placing advertisements, distributing materials to key stakeholders, and event presence (stand and materials)
• Coordinating website development, content upload, and content updating for ISN’s events
• Planning, coordinating and posting on social media sites
• Coordinating external event presence and material distribution to selected events
• Marketing support including developing and sending out email campaigns and coordinating production of marketing collateral
• Coordinating, uploading and disseminating ads in ISN and barter publications
• Updating and uploading content on ISN website
• Posting pushing content on social media sites
• Coordinating design and production of ISN member newsletter
• Organizing and coordinating communication activities for ad hoc activities, events and projects

Skills

• A higher education degree
• Formal marketing and communications training
• Minimum 3 years of proven track record in marketing and communications
• Good project and campaign management skills (monitoring budgets, planning, resource allocations, implementation) including use of appropriate software tools
• Strategic and creative thinking
• Knowledge of use and implementation of social and other new media outreach
• Proficient knowledge of Microsoft Office, and marketing dissemination web tools
• Basic knowledge of Photoshop and experience in HTML are an advantage
• Fluency in spoken and written English (other languages are an asset)
• Experience working in an international environment
• Excellent organizational, planning and prioritization skills
• Stress-resistant and creative and resourceful problem solving abilities
• Capacity to interact and build strong relations with diverse and multi-cultural members, stakeholders, and staff
• Ability to multi-task in a multifaceted environment
• Ability to take initiative, prioritize and work under set deadlines
• Ability to work independently and within a team
• Adaptable, positive, approachable
• Motivated self starter and effective team member
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Willingness to travel occasionally
• Sense of responsibility and commitment to a scientific society with a philanthropic and humanitarian mission

ISN Offers

• A full-time contract with a competitive salary and benefits
• An exciting job with one with one of the largest nephrology societies in the world
• Demanding and interesting assignments
• A multicultural and collegial working environment

How to Apply

Deadline for applications is February 25 with interviews being conducted at the end of February with expected start date on May 1, 2013.

Qualified candidates should e-mail resume showing demonstrated experience and expertise and a cover letter with salary expectations to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , quoting “Marketing & Communications Coordinator” in the subject of the message.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

About ISN

The International Society of Nephrology (ISN) is a global not-for-profit society dedicated to its philanthropic mission of advancing the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of kidney diseases in the developing and developed world.

Since its foundation in 1960, ISN has pursued the worldwide advancement of education, science and patient care in nephrology. The Society represents a wide international network and provides an efficient platform for timely scientific exchange, debate and dissemination between healthcare professionals around the world.

ISN has 10,000 professional members from 129 countries. In addition, ISN closely collaborates with over 70 national and regional nephrology societies around the world, representing about 20,000 professionals.

For more information, visit www.theisn.org.

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The Saving Young Lives in Africa & Asa project is a collaborative program that will develop specialized hospital centers with dialysis facilities in both Sub-saharian Africa and South East Asia. Five years of funding has been given by a charitable foundation (2012-2016) and is expected to lead to further developments of similar centers in these regions.

Specialized hospitals with dialysis facilities are crucial in the developing world to save the lives of children and young adults, who continue to die in large numbers in the developing world as a direct result of acute kidney injury (AKI). AKI can be prevented in many cases - often by simple treatments (e.g. fluid and electrolyte administration) or prompt treatment of infection. But, some people whose kidneys fail will still require specialist care in hospitals, which may include dialysis treatment. The ideal type of dialysis in this setting is peritoneal dialysis [PD] because of its technical simplicity.

The partnership will develop a program suited to low-resource health settings, including the development of specialized hospital centers for care of AKI including facilities for acute PD. The program will also focus on training and education in the community to improve awareness and equip local health practitioners for prevention as well as identification of cases needing hospital care.

The project will build on the success over recent years at the pilot site, the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center (KCMC), in Moshi, Tanzania. Other centers in sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia will be selected soon.

Steering Committee:

John Feehally (Chair), ISN- International Society for Nephrology

Mary Carter, SKCF – Sustainable Kidney Care Foundation: http://www.skcf.net/

Frederic Finkelstein, ISPD – International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis http://ispd.org/

William Smoyer, IPNA – International Pediatric Nephrology Association http://www.ipna-online.org/

Contact

For more information please contact Ariane Brusselmans from the ISN Secretariat.
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The deadline to submit an application to the ISN - TTS Sister Transplant Center Program is April 15, 2013

The ISN-TTS Sister Transplant Center Program is a new joint partnership set up between ISN and The Transplantation Society (TTS)  to create new kidney transplant centers and develop existing kidney transplant programs in emerging countries.

Following the success of the ISN Global Outreach (GO) Sister Renal Center Program, this initiative encourages transplant centers to work together to increase opportunities for kidney transplant patients in developing countries. 

About the ISN-TTS Sister Transplant Center Program

An experienced transplant center in the developed world lends its support to an emerging transplant center to facilitate vital multidisciplinary training and encourage both centers to exchange their knowledge and expertise. 

The results are beneficial to both sides. Supporting centers get involved in global health, spread ethical and competent transplantation to regions of the world with limited or no current access to transplantation. Emerging centers connect with a multidisciplinary team of international experts in transplantation from a world-leading center.

Send us your application

Interested in getting involved, you can complete the application form HERE. Three places are available for this application session. The deadline for completed applications is April 15, 2013.

The accepted candidates will be selected at the World Congress of Nephrology in Hong Kong in late May 2013. Successful applicants will be notified by June 30, 2013 and the new Sister Transplant Centers will start in July 2013.

For more details regarding applications, email: Giorgia Manuzi at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  

Programs Materials:

STC Application Form (Application form must be sent together with a completed STC budget  proposal)

STC Budget Proposal_Template

STC Manual (C level)

ISN-TTS Sister Transplant Center Program Chairs

Paul Harden (UK)
Jeremy Chapman (Australia)