Parkinson Voice Project seeks a full-time Director of Digital Marketing and Corporate Connections with a proven track record as the organization enters its 20th Anniversary Year. This marketing professional will promote our nonprofit organization and our evidence-based

SPEAK OUT!® Therapy Program to help people with Parkinson’s and their families worldwide.

There are an estimated ten million people living with Parkinson’s in the world. Ninety percent are at risk of losing their ability to speak and swallow. We can help them! Our SPEAK OUT! Therapy Program is highly effective. It works!

Imagine your voice gradually becoming so soft you have to constantly repeat yourself. Imagine your family leaving you out of conversations and your friends ignoring you. Now imagine finding out there is a treatment that can help. After just a few weeks, you can converse with your family again. You can order your own food at a restaurant. You can be an active participant in your medical care. You can cheer at your grandkid’s soccer game.

Now imagine losing your ability to swallow – coughing and choking every time you take a sip of water. You’re losing weight. If you don’t get help, you’ll suffer multiple hospital stays and probably have to have a feeding tube. Now imagine finding out there is a treatment that can help. With just a few modifications, you can enjoy your favorite foods. Dining out with friends is possible again. Holidays and family gatherings are once again happy celebrations.

Parkinson Voice Project wants every person with Parkinson’s around the world to have access to our SPEAK OUT! Therapy Program. To accomplish this, we must train speech-language pathologists and graduate students in hospitals, rehab clinics, universities, skilled nursing units, home health agencies, and private practices everywhere.

We also need patients to know about the many online resources we provide, such as our online home practice sessions, SPEAK OUT! eLibrary, and Parkinson’s Sing-Alongs. Our goal is to not only help people with Parkinson’s REGAIN their speech and swallowing abilities; we also want to help them fight Parkinson’s and RETAIN these skills forever. It’s an upward battle, but we like to say, “We’re in it with you for the long haul.”

We want our new Director of Digital Marketing and Corporate Connections to develop and execute an impressive strategy to promote Parkinson Voice Project’s SPEAK OUT! Therapy Program across various digital channels like social media, search engines, email, and websites, utilizing tactics such as SEO, PPC advertising, content creation, and analytics to generate leads, increase brand awareness, and drive customer engagement.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Digital Marketing Expert:

Deep understanding of core digital marketing concepts like SEO, PPC, social media marketing, email marketing, and analytics

SEO optimization:

Skilled at implementing strategies to improve website ranking on search engine results pages (SERPs) through keyword research, meta descriptions, and technical optimization

PPC advertising:

Ability to create and manage paid advertising campaigns on platforms like Google Ads and social media to target specific demographics and generate leads

Email Marketing:

Proven track record for designing and executing email marketing strategies to nurture leads, promote our speech therapy program, and raise funds

Marketing Analytics:

Well-versed in tracking website traffic, campaign performance, and analyzing key metrics to measure ROI and continually identify areas of improvement

Content creation:

Ability to create compelling, visually appealing, and engaging content for various social media and digital platforms (and target audiences) to build brand awareness and community interaction

Writing skills:

Exceptional writing skills for marketing brochures, blog posts, articles, social media updates, fundraising campaigns, and print and digital newsletters

Project management skills:

Ability to manage multiple digital marketing projects simultaneously

Servant Mindset:

Genuine desire to help people with Parkinson’s and their families

Our new Director of Digital Marketing and Corporate Connection will be able to hire a full-time assistant to help reach our ambitious goals.

The Director of Digital Marketing and Corporate Connections will also work with the Director of Development to create and execute two online fundraising campaigns annually and secure corporate sponsorships to fund:

1. SPEAK OUT! Therapy Training for Graduate Students

2. SPEAK OUT! Therapy Training for Speech-Language Pathologists who work in VA Medical Centers and Related Entities

3. SPEAK OUT! Therapy Workbooks for U.S. Patients

4. Online SPEAK OUT! Home Practice Sessions (260 hosted annually)

About Our Organization…

Parkinson Voice Project was founded on December 13, 2005. Our mission is to help people with Parkinson’s REGAIN and RETAIN their speech and swallowing. An estimated ten million people worldwide live with Parkinson’s, and ninety percent need our services.

In 2010, we developed a highly effective, evidence-based speech treatment for individuals with Parkinson’s called the SPEAK OUT! Therapy Program. We treat patients throughout Texas from our clinic in Richardson, Texas (in-person and online). We are also replicating our SPEAK OUT! Therapy Program across the U.S. and abroad by training speech-language pathologists and graduate students worldwide. Our SPEAK OUT! Therapy materials have been translated into ten languages so far.

Since 2008, we have uniquely funded our 501C3 nonprofit organization without a separate development team. We have provided all our patient care services at no charge. We don’t bill Medicare or insurance either.

We do not host galas, 5K runs, or silent auctions. Instead, we follow Jim Collin’s Good to Great principles, keeping our focus and resources on what we are passionate about and what we do best – helping people with Parkinson’s and related neurological disorders worldwide regain and retain their speech and swallowing. In turn, grateful patients and their families Pay It Forward to help future patients. We have never been in debt.

We have impeccable financials with clear annual audits. We’ve secured a $5 million gift to endow our 10,000-square-foot clinic, along with its maintenance. We have consistently spent 85%+ of our budget on patient care services. We have a Four-Star rating with Charity Navigator and earned Platinum Transparency for 2024 on GuideStar.

With the help of business consultants who selected our organization for a $200,000 pro-bono consulting project, we’ve developed an elaborate Monthly Operations Reporting System to continually track our progress and make logical and sound adjustments to help us achieve our global mission.

Each week, we receive testimonials from grateful patients. Here are a few:

“We went out to dinner with friends the other evening, and for the first time in ages, I was able to join in the conversations!”

-Debbie, Georgia

“With the arrival of grandchildren, I was looking forward to singing lullabies. Unfortunately, the best I could do was barely hum a tune. Today, after only five weeks of SPEAK OUT! Therapy, I can sing a song all the way through. I feel confident again now. I sing around the house. I lift my voice into the far corners of the family room.”

—Jackie, Arizona

“Before SPEAK OUT! Therapy, there would be times when I swallowed food, and it would get stuck in my esophagus. It was hard to breathe. As you can imagine, I was experiencing a bit of anxiety. Since being in the program, this has not happened to me at all - NOT ONCE! It makes for a much more relaxing and enjoyable mealtime.”

—Roger, Florida

Visit to learn more about our organization. Click here to watch an amazing video! Effective Parkinson’s Speech Therapy - The Balancing Act

If you want to be part of a genuine, efficient, and high-performing team while making a profound impact on the lives of people with Parkinson’s and their families worldwide, we invite you to apply to be our Director of Digital Marketing and Corporate Connections. Parkinson Voice Project offers a competitive salary with bonuses, healthcare benefits, and a 401k plan with a 5% match.

To apply, please send your resume and cover letter to Hilary Byatt, Chief Operating Officer, at Applications submitted to LinkedIn will not be reviewed.