Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership & Alignment - Serve as the senior leader responsible for marketing and communications strategy for Katz, with accountability to both the Chief of Staff and Associate Vice Dean for Strategic Initiatives at Katz and the Vice President for Strategic Marketing & Communications for the University.
• Strategic Leadership & Alignment - Partner closely with the Assistant Dean for Development & Alumni Relations to ensure seamless integration of philanthropic messaging, donor engagement communications, and campaign-related marketing.
• Strategic Leadership & Alignment - Collaborate with Temple Health's marketing and communications teams to ensure aligned messaging, coordinated storytelling, and consistent brand experiences across clinical, academic, and research environments.
• Strategic Leadership & Alignment - Provide strategic counsel to school leadership on reputation-building, issues management, media strategy, and institutional positioning.
• Strategic Leadership & Alignment - Advocate for Katz's priorities while ensuring alignment with the university's brand architecture, standards, and communications strategy.
• Brand Reputation, Messaging & Content Strategy - Shape, refine, and steward Katz's brand narrative across all platforms, ensuring a cohesive and compelling story that highlights the school's mission, impact, and differentiation.
• Brand Reputation, Messaging & Content Strategy - Lead a multi-platform content strategy-including web, digital, print, social media, executive communications, video, and campaign materials-that supports strategic objectives across education, research, clinical care, and advancement.
• Brand Reputation, Messaging & Content Strategy - Develop and maintain key message platforms and communications frameworks that support school-wide priorities, including research visibility, faculty accomplishments, student success, and community engagement.
• Brand Reputation, Messaging & Content Strategy - Build a dashboard of KPIs to measure marketing effectiveness, brand perception, audience engagement, and ROI.
• Communications & Media Relations - Provide direction and oversight for internal and external communications and content strategy. Collaborate with SMC on proactive and reactive earned media strategies to enhance and protect the reputation of Katz, serving as the school-based lead on crisis/issues communications.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and at least 10 years of directly related experience.
• Experience in leading effective marketing/communications functions, preferably within an academic medical center.
• Experience in working with marketing and communications tools and operationalizing best practices.
• An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered

Preferred

• Master's degree in communications, marketing, or a related field preferred.
• Experience in healthcare and/or academic medicine marketing leadership strongly preferred.

Benefits

• Full medical, dental, vision coverage
• Paid time off
• 11 Paid Holidays
• Tuition remission - eligible employees and their dependents can obtain a degree TUITION FREE
• A generous retirement plan and so much more!