Job Description

Essen Health Care is the largest privately held, multispecialty medical group in New York, providing high-quality, compassionate care to some of the state’s most vulnerable and underserved residents.

Founded in 1999, we’ve grown from a single primary care office into a network of 50+ locations offering urgent care, primary care and specialty services, from women’s health to endocrinology and psychiatry. We also provide nursing home support, care management, and in-home care through our Essen House Calls program. Guided by a Population Health model, our team of 500+ providers deliver care in-person, at home, or via telehealth, ensuring patients get the support they need when and where they need it.

We’re looking for talented, motivated individuals to join our growing team. Whether you’re a medical provider, administrator, or operations professional, there’s a career here for you. Join us in making a real difference in the health of our community.

About the Role

As a Writer & Research Fellow, you’ll work directly with senior team members to explore ideas, technologies, and care models shaping individualized medicine. Your role is to ask questions, gather insights, and write clearly helping us organize our thinking and communicate it internally and externally (but not to investors). This is not a marketing role. You won’t be selling anything. This is about discovery through writing—and building intellectual clarity in a new, complex space.

You Might Be a Fit If You…

Love writing and want to keep getting better at it. You’ve written for class, a blog, a newsletter, or a paper—and people say you have a voice. Are curious about healthcare, especially where it intersects with science, ethics, and technology. Think in systems and care about questions like: What makes medicine personal? What role should AI play? Who owns health data? Are early in your career (or pivoting into health) and eager to learn, stretch, and contribute meaningfully to a mission-driven team. Take feedback seriously, listen closely, and have good judgment about when to speak up and when to dig in.

This Is Not…

• A marketing or social media job

• A front-facing communications role

• A clinical or engineering position

This is a writing-first role for someone who wants to understand how change happens in healthcare—by sitting close to it, asking good questions, and helping shape the story as it unfolds.

Responsibilities

What You’ll Do

Write daily. Contribute essays, internal memos, early program documents, and short explainer pieces. You’ll help draft and refine language that reflects how we think and what we’re learning.

Research widely. Support literature reviews, competitive scans, or thematic deep dives (on topics like AI in diagnosis, data ethics, primary care models, health equity, etc.) to inform product and program design.

Help shape our internal narrative. Capture team discussions, organize rough ideas into usable language, and help create clarity out of ambiguity as the venture evolves.

Grow in public. Over time, you may co-author or publish your own writing on themes at the edge of health, ethics, design, or future-of-care topics—with guidance and support.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related field preferred
• 5+ years of progressive experience
• Experience working in healthcare, preferably in outpatient or community health settings.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Deep commitment to equity, inclusion, and employee well-being.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Essen Health care is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we seek candidates who desire to work in and serve an ethnically diverse population.