Executive Director of Strategic Communications & Marketing (Data Science and AI Institute) at The Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $180K/yr – $230K/yr

The Johns Hopkins University

Executive Director of Strategic Communications & Marketing (Data Science and AI Institute)

Baltimore, MD (On-site)

$180K/yr – $230K/yrDirector/Executive10+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive the strategy, leadership, and media/brand operations for Johns Hopkins DSAI to position it as a leading data science and AI institute.

Must-have: 10+ years in strategic communications/public affairs with executive-facing impact.
Standout: broad leadership across strategy, media, and brand, including crisis and reputation management.

Job Description

Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership and Planning: Work with DSAI leadership, faculty, and other university communications teams to develop a strategic communications program that positions the university as the leading academic hub for data science and artificial intelligence.
Strategic Leadership and Planning: Craft and execute long- and short-term communications and marketing plans that leverage the university’s unique constellation of assets to advance strategic priorities.
Strategic Leadership and Planning: Establish clear objectives for the communications and marketing program. Develop and track metrics to continually monitor progress towards goals, measure digital and media success, benchmark against peers, and respond to opportunities for improvement.
Strategic Leadership and Planning: Provide reports to leadership and stakeholders to demonstrate impact.
Strategic Leadership and Planning: Support institute and university leadership in navigating the communications opportunities and risks inherent in building an institute at the forefront of an emerging sector that presents both opportunities and challenges.
Strategic Leadership and Planning: Provide vision, input, and support on a variety of public events for the institute that help to build DSAI’s brand, disseminate its core work, and elevate its research, educational, and translational missions.
Media Relations and Communications: Hire and manage a team of specialists to help achieve the goals of the communications and marketing strategic plans.
Media Relations and Communications: Lead DSAI’s media engagement and digital communications across multiple channels to promote the work of the institute and its associated centers and programs.
Media Relations and Communications: Create an active, forward-looking media relations strategy to elevate institute leadership and faculty experts as thought leaders on key issues driving the public conversation around data science and AI.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree.
Ten years of managerial-level, progressively responsible experience in leading strategic communications and public affairs programs in related fields/industry.
Additional education may substitute for required experience, and additional related experience may substitute for required education beyond a high school diploma/graduation equivalent, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

Preferred

Experience developing and running comprehensive strategic communications programs that elevate institutional expertise in data science and AI, and effectively engage diverse public, academic, government, and industry audiences.
Comfort achieving results in a highly collaborative environment incorporating stakeholders and decision-makers across multiple teams and departments.
Ability to build trust and influence at the executive level; experience providing advice and counsel to senior leaders and executives.
Understanding of the importance of media relations
Comfort and familiarity with a wide range of media relations and marketing tools and tactics, and a track record of evaluating and incorporating new tools as they become they become available.
Demonstrated ability to lead and manage a diverse team, oversee multiple projects, and work in a fast-paced environment.
Strong leadership skills with a track record of leading high-performing communications and marketing teams.
Experience hiring staff, developing teams, crafting and overseeing budgets, and managing contract resources or agencies for discrete projects.
Previous professional experience in and/or content expertise in academic or related industry environments.

The Johns Hopkins University

We are America’s first research university, founded in 1876 on the principle that by pursuing big ideas and sharing what we learn, we can make the world a better place. For more than 140 years, our faculty and students have worked side by side in pursuit of discoveries that improve lives.Johns Hopkins enrolls more than 24,000 full- and part-time students throughout nine academic divisions. Our faculty and students study, teach, and learn across more than 260 programs in the arts and music, the humanities, the social and natural sciences, engineering, international studies, education, business, and the health professions.The university has four campuses in Baltimore; one in Washington, D.C.; one in Montgomery County, Maryland; and facilities throughout the Baltimore-Washington region as well as in China and Italy.The university takes its name from 19th-century Maryland philanthropist Johns Hopkins, an entrepreneur who believed in improving public health and education in Baltimore and beyond.

Baltimore, Maryland, USA

18K employees (349 in marketing)

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