DIRECTOR-COMMUNICATIONS

Birmingham, AL (Hybrid)

$94K/yr – $153K/yrDirector/Executive10+ years expFull time

Posted 3 days ago

Job Summary

Owns end-to-end content strategy and multi-channel production, guiding messaging, quality, and audience accessibility across departments.

  • Leads strategy and production for web, email, social, video, newsletters, and print.
  • Defines metrics, evaluates impact with data, and steers decision making.

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Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Oversees the production of high-quality, multi-channel content, ensuring messaging is consistent, strategic, and accessible.
  • Leads the content strategy and production of content for multiple channels that may include web, email, social media, video, newsletters, and print publications.
  • Defines performance metrics and goals for communication initiatives, uses data to evaluate effectiveness and inform decision-making and strategy.
  • Directs large-scale communication initiatives, allocates resources effectively, and manages complex budgets and priorities.
  • Advises senior leadership on communication opportunities and challenges; collaborates with institutional partners to ensure alignment and amplification of messaging. Represents the school, college or VP office in institution-wide discussions and planning.
  • Provides vision and direction for communications within the school, college or VP office, ensuring strategies support institutional goals, brand standards, and long-term reputation building. Manages staff or interns as necessary.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Communications, English, Journalism, Marketing, Public Relations or a related field, and ten (10) years of related experience required. Advanced degree preferred. Work experience may NOT substitute for the education requirement.

Preferred

  • Advanced degree preferred
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University of Alabama at Birmingham

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Known for its innovative and interdisciplinary approach to education at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, a part of the University of Alabama System, is an internationally renowned research university and academic medical center with over $700 million in research awards annually, as well as Alabama’s largest single employer, with some 26,000 employees, and has an annual economic impact exceeding $7.15 billion on the state. The pillars of UAB’s mission include education, research, innovation and economic development, community engagement, and patient care. Learn more at www.uab.edu.

Founded in 1969
Birmingham, Alabama, USA
17K employees (435 in marketing)
73% recommend to a friend
86% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$94K/yr – $153K/yr

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Funding

Total Funding
$45.1M
Last Raise
$17.5K
Grant, 2 years ago

Funding History

  • Dec 2023
    Grant • $17.5K
  • Jul 2023
    Grant
  • Jun 2023
    Grant

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.9M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$535.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
44.3%
Direct
46.1%
Referral
8.3%
Social
0.5%
Paid
0.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~16.6K

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DIRECTOR-COMMUNICATIONS

University of Alabama at Birmingham · Birmingham, AL · Hybrid