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.

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. The University of Denver is a private institution that empowers students who want to make a difference. Learn more about the University of Denver.