Responsibilities

• Lead integrated communications strategies for assigned enterprise initiatives, from early planning through implementation and ongoing optimization.
• Serve as the principal communications adviser to executive sponsors, project leaders and business owners, connecting project goals to audience needs, messaging and implementation plans.
• Translate institutional strategy, project roadmaps and operational decisions into clear communications objectives, stakeholder strategies and measurable outcomes.
• Develop a cohesive approach across a fractional portfolio while accounting for each initiative's scope, audiences, timing, risks and operating environment.
• Maintain a portfolio-level view of communications activity, identifying competing demands, dependencies, overlapping audiences and opportunities to coordinate messages.
• Anticipate peak periods of communications demand and recommend changes in fractional assignments, sequencing or specialist support.
• Assess stakeholder concerns, change readiness, reputational considerations and operational risk, recommending proactive communications responses.
• Determine which needs can be addressed directly and which require collaboration with specialized MarComm teams or institutional partners.
• Ensure initiative communications align with enterprise strategy, brand standards and the broader positioning of Dell Medical School and the academic health system.
• Apply advanced judgment to complex or sensitive communications challenges with limited oversight and substantial latitude for independent decision-making.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, marketing, public relations, journalism or a related field.
• Eight years of relevant experience in marketing, communications, public relations, content strategy or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience independently leading complex, cross-functional marketing or communications initiatives.
• Relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.
• Knowledge/Skills/Abilities: Advanced knowledge of integrated communications strategy, organizational change communications and stakeholder engagement.
• Ability to connect institutional and project goals to clear audience strategies, messaging, implementation plans and measures of success.
• Broad proficiency across communications disciplines, including content development, internal communications, executive communications, media relations, brand and digital engagement.
• Ability to independently execute a wide range of communications work while recognizing when specialized expertise, institutional coordination or additional capacity is required.
• Strong judgment in assessing communications complexity, visibility, stakeholder impact and institutional risk.
• Exceptional writing, editing and message-development skills across platforms, formats and audiences.

Preferred

• Experience in academic medicine, health care, higher education or another complex and regulated environment.
• Experience supporting enterprise transformation, technology implementations, operational redesign or other major organizational initiatives.
• Experience developing communications strategies that support stakeholder understanding, readiness, adoption and sustained change.
• Experience working with executive sponsors, project leaders, functional teams and subject-matter experts in a matrixed organization.
• Experience serving as a communications adviser within an organization that also includes specialized communications functions.
• Experience managing communications for multiple concurrent initiatives or a fractional project portfolio.
• Experience coordinating communications across multiple organizational entities, programs, brands or approval structures.
• Experience advising senior leaders and managing sensitive or high-profile communications.
• Experience with web content management systems, email platforms, employee communications channels, analytics platforms and project-management systems.
• Familiarity with The University of Texas at Austin and the Central Texas health care environment.