Senior Director, Communications and Public Affairs

Responsibilities

• Strategic Communications Leadership
• Partner with the Executive Director to develop and implement comprehensive communications strategies aligned with institutional goals, priorities, and reputation management objectives.
• Establish communications priorities, recommend strategic initiatives, and direct the execution of integrated communications plans across editorial, digital, social media, and multimedia platforms.
• Serve as a senior communications advisor to institutional leadership, faculty, departments, and centers, providing guidance on messaging, audience engagement, and communications strategies.
• Evaluate emerging communications opportunities, institutional developments, and reputational considerations; recommend appropriate strategies and courses of action.
• Collaborate with departmental leadership across branding, web, creative services, and institutional partners to ensure coordinated communications initiatives.
• Editorial Strategy and Content Oversight
• Establish and oversee institutional editorial standards, content strategies, and messaging priorities to ensure consistency with Einstein's mission, reputation, and communications objectives.
• Provide executive editorial oversight of Einstein's digital magazine, institutional news, press releases, feature stories, and digital communications.
• Assign, write, edit, and proofread institutional press releases, news briefs, articles, video scripts, social media captions, and web content.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, Marketing, or a related field required; advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible experience in communications, journalism, public relations, or institutional communications, including significant experience in a leadership or management capacity.
• Demonstrated experience developing and directing strategic communications initiatives within a complex organization.
• Experience supervising professional communications staff, managing departmental priorities, and evaluating performance.
• Strong editorial judgment and demonstrated ability to advise senior leadership on communications strategies, institutional messaging, and reputation management.
• Experience in academic medicine, higher education, scientific research, healthcare, or a similarly complex institutional environment preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to exercise independent judgment, assess competing priorities, and make strategic recommendations involving sensitive or high-profile communications matters.
• Strong understanding of media relations, digital communications, multimedia storytelling, audience engagement, and communications analytics.
• Excellent leadership, interpersonal, written communication, and organizational skills.