Communications & Outreach Manager (TEMP)

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement comprehensive communications and outreach strategies that support institutional goals, research initiatives, and stakeholder engagement objectives.
• Create and maintain messaging frameworks, communication plans, editorial calendars, and brand governance standards.
• Lead executive, sponsor, public, and multi-stakeholder communications, ensuring consistency, accuracy, and alignment with organizational priorities.
• Oversee website content, publications, newsletters, annual reports, technical communications, and other digital and print communications resources.
• Coordinate and support workshops, conferences, advisory councils, industry engagement activities, public events, and community outreach initiatives.
• Develop communications materials that effectively translate complex research, technical, and programmatic information for diverse audiences.
• Manage communications review and approval processes to ensure quality, compliance, and alignment with institutional standards.
• Provide guidance and support for sensitive issues, media inquiries, reputational risks, and crisis communications activities.
• Monitor communication effectiveness and stakeholder engagement metrics and recommend improvements to outreach strategies.
• Collaborate with institute leadership, researchers, sponsors, university partners, government agencies, industry representatives, and external stakeholders.

Requirements

• Master's degree from an accredited institution with 7-10 years in strategic communications, public affairs, stakeholder engagement, research communications, or related program communications.

Preferred

• Communications strategy, message architecture, editorial planning, and brand governance.
• Executive, public, sponsor, and multi-stakeholder communications.
• Workshops, events, councils, industry outreach, and stakeholder engagement.
• Website, content, publication, and technical-communications oversight.
• Issues, approvals, sensitive-content, and crisis-communications management.
• Team leadership and workload prioritization across communications deliverables.