Responsibilities

• The partnership: You are the front door to External Affairs for deans, vice presidents, and communications leaders across the University. You engage early — before a project has a deadline or a deliverable — to understand what your partners are trying to accomplish, who they need to reach, and what's standing in the way. Those relationships are yours to build and sustain. The strategy behind the work.
• You translate partner goals into clear objectives, sharp briefs, and marketing and communications plans that connect to University priorities.
• You lead the development of annual and campaign-based strategies, and you make sure nothing enters production until it's strategically defined, prioritized, and positioned to land. The team.
• You lead and mentor a group of Marketing & Communications Strategists, coaching them in relationship building, strategic planning, and messaging.
• You advise the team on the best ways to tap into connections across the institution to ensure successful promotions of initiatives.
• You stay close to the projects they lead — not to take the wheel, but to make sure the collaboration is working, the work holds together and aligns with the University's key messages and priorities The connective tissue.
• External Affairs brings strategy, creative, digital, and communications expertise together in a matrixed model, and you are the connector that keeps it aligned.
• You partner closely with creative leadership so the work is on brand, inventive, and well told from the first conversation through execution and evaluation. Institutional coordination.
• You see across the whole University in a way few people can.
• You use that vantage point to find overlaps, cut duplication, amplify shared initiatives, and bring units together on priorities that are bigger than any one school or department. Measurement and impact.

Requirements

• Three days per week on campus at 985 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA. Tuesday and Wednesday are required in-office days. The third in-office day is determined in consultation with the manager. Position requires occasional night and weekend work.
• Experience leading and mentoring a group of Marketing & Communications Strategists or equivalent.
• Hybrid work arrangement experience and ability to coordinate across a matrixed organization.

Benefits

• Boston University offers competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits package that includes tuition remission for employees and eligible dependents, retirement contributions, health and dental coverage, and paid time off.