Executive Communications Lead
Samsara
USA (Remote)
$119K/yr - $212K/yrIn-houseFull-timeSenior level5+ years exp.
10 days ago
Executive Communications Manager
Denver, CO (Unknown)
$60K/yr – $75K/yrManager3+ years expFull time
Posted 2 days ago
Job Summary
Own the development and delivery of executive communications that shape institutional voice across speeches, briefing materials, and multi-channel storytelling, while coordinating timelines, assets, and stakeholder collaboration.
- Lead crafting of executive communications and public-facing content
- Manage cross-channel strategies and crisis messaging support
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Draft and edit speeches, remarks, talking points, correspondence, and written materials for university leadership with an aptitude for capturing institutional voice as well as individual expression and tone for various executives.
- Prepare briefing materials and background research for leadership engagements, ensuring accuracy and appropriate tone.
- Manage timelines, approvals, and logistics for executive communications projects from initiation through delivery.
- Maintain organized archives of leadership communications and related assets to ensure consistency and institutional continuity as well as a catalogue of topical responses to various inquires or other needs.
- Contribute to the planning and execution of communications across channels including social media, newsletters, media, and the newsroom as they relate to executive voice and storytelling.
- Monitor best practices in executive communications and proactively recommend innovative approaches.
- Support the development of public-facing content including statements, announcements, and earned media materials.
- Serve as a strategic storytelling contributor, helping connect executive communications to broader institutional narratives.
- Collaborate with media, editorial, design, and video teams to amplify leadership messaging in new and engaging ways.
- Build and maintain messaging toolkits and plans for strategic projects, ensuring consistency with campus partners and communicators.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in communications, public relations, journalism, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience (veterans with equivalent military certification/education and experience may substitute for the degree qualification).
- 2–3 years of experience executing communications across multiple channels.
- Strong, versatile copywriting and editing skills, with the ability to adapt tone and style for executive voice.
Preferred
- Experience in executive, leadership, or institutional communications.
- Previous experience in higher education.
- Research writing experience.
Benefits
- The University of Denver offers excellent benefits, including medical, dental, retirement, paid time off, tuition benefit and ECO pass.
University of Denver
Founded in 1864 — just a few years after the city of Denver itself was founded—the University of Denver is one of the country's premier private universities. The University's 125-acre campus, a few miles south of downtown Denver, is home to about 12,000 students hailing from all regions of the United States and 83 other countries. The University offers more than 100 undergraduate programs of study and more than 120 graduate and professional programs. DU is recognized as a Doctoral/Very High Research University (or “R1”) by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. The University of Denver may delete posts or comments that promote for-profit ventures that do not comply with DU policies. Posts that are grossly off-topic, abusive, contain profanity, pornography, are threatening, contain discriminatory language or language of bias or hate, and the like will not be tolerated. This page is moderated by DU staff to maintain safety and ensure appropriate interactions. Posts concerning safety and discrimination will be brought to the immediate attention of Campus Safety and/or Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
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$60K/yr – $75K/yr
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