Interested in Applying?
Our employees and interns always accomplish many challenging yet rewarding experiences here at Iowa Diabetes. Some of our interns have gone on to obtain competitive post-graduate positions at organizations including Novartis, Magellan Health, & Yale University. Our long-term employees also enjoy growth opportunities and amazing benefits while completing rewarding work in a family-like environment. Joining our team is a great way to achieve your goals or help build your career skills!
Apply if You…
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Want to Grow Professionally
We are a fast-moving organization with multiple projects going on at any one time. We value interns with a high degree of autonomy that like to take initiative with their work and are flexible to work on new tasks and projects frequently. Your work here will help you to gain skills including multi-tasking and prioritization that will make you successful in future positions.
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Are Interested in Technology
At Iowa Diabetes, we use a number of different technology platforms like G Suite by Google among our own technology products that we offer to patients and professionals. Ideal candidates should be comfortable with technology.
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Have Great Communication Skills
We are looking for interns who are skilled at communicating with other members of our team and patients. Whether it be writing proposals for collaborating with other organizations or presenting projects to other team members, great communication makes sure that we are operating at full-steam.
Job Opportunities
We work to place candidates in positions that will best fit their experience and desired projects. Please feel free to apply regardless of positions listed.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop strategic plans for marketing activities that allow achievement of growth goals for Research, Care, University and Portal Divisions. Coordinate efforts of on-site and India based team members. Manage company websites and all brand related verbiage. Design and/or guide the team in the creation of sales materials, advertisements and landing pages. Develop and execute a content strategy that connects with users and/or customers; informing them of platform capabilities, advancements in diabetes and other relevant topics. Manage monthly newsletters for both internal and external audiences. Enhance social media presence (LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and other relevant platforms).
- Identify ways to build the Iowa Diabetes portal and community. Increase engagement in a way that ensures usage of the breadth of services offered. Look for opportunities to encourage connection to health portals to provide a high-quality and high-volume experience for research center and clinic patients. Monitor user feedback to determine enhancements that will strengthen our connection to our users of all products and services.
- Oversee local outreach activities through the continued development of relationships in the community including subsites as well as referral clinics. Conduct and coordinate community recruitment events such as local health fairs and patient support groups. Maintain and improve local marketing contacts and patient databases for recruitment.
Required Qualification
- Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, journalism, advertising, design or related field. Knowledge in healthcare and/or technology is desirable.
- 5+ years marketing experience with an emphasis on digital marketing.
- 2+ years management experience
- Strong passion for making a difference to the lives of people.
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal).
- Ability to provide public presentations.
- Detail-oriented with good organizational and project management skills
- Excellent follow-up skills
- Familiarity with Web content writing, editing and management
- Knowledge of business English, spelling, arithmetic, modern office practices and procedures, standard office equipment.
Internship Opportunities
We work to place candidates in positions that will best fit their experience and desired projects. Please feel free to apply regardless of positions listed.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain drug database with newly released drugs and serve as a drug reference for the Iowa Diabetes Research team and other projects
- Actively reaching out to patients in the database and updating their most updated medical information
- Assisting with preparation for recruitment activities such as data management and organization
- Contact potential patients about studies, scheduling and tracking appointments
- Write business requirements to build and improve our software and collaborate with software development team in India
- Evaluate trial protocols and Informed Consent Forms to educate/recruit patients and staff
- Develop executive summaries/ business plans/SWOT analysis and presentations,
- Manage, plan, compile, write and distribute digital newsletters or medical articles
- Help create promotional or educational material as needed
- Assist in patient interviews for Iowa Diabetes
Desired Attributes
- Completed at least 1 year of pharmacy school
- Self-driven with a strong work ethic
- Passionate about diabetes or technology
- Pursuing an MBA or diabetes concentration
- Reliable and trustworthy
About Our Companies
Iowa Diabetes Research
Iowa Diabetes Research (IDR) is a world-class clinical trial site for Phase II to Phase IV studies, headquartered in West Des Moines. IDR was founded in 2007 by our CEO and Medical Director, Dr. Anuj Bhargava in downtown Des Moines.
In 2017, we moved to a new office in West Des Moines to better serve our patients in a more spacious and easily accessible office.
IDR has started more than 100 clinical trials and helped 1,600+ patients take charge of their diabetes through clinical research.
Patients participating in trials at IDR may receive study-related care, testing supplies, and medications free of charge.
Iowa Diabetes Portal
Iowa Diabetes Portal (IDP) is a breakthrough personal technology platform that helps patients better manage their diabetes by easily managing their sugars, meds, labs, activity and more on any device!
IDP recently released a version of the platform for Professionals that allows physicians, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals to engage their patients through their very own diabetes portal and have access to real-time sugars, meds and labs.
The Academic Version allows teachers and professors to create realistic patient cases with health data for their students to work through and identify diabetes therapy problems. This platform has been used at Drake University for a diabetes concentration class in the PharmD curriculum.