Senior Manager, Communications School of Medicine

Emory University is a leading research university that fosters excellence and attracts world-class talent to innovate today and prepare leaders for the future. We welcome candidates who can contribute to the excellence of our academic community.

Leads strategic communications for School of Medicine (SOM) advancing its tripartite mission of research education and clinical care. This role is responsible for developing plans and messages that strengthen engagement transparency alignment and trust across a diverse internal audience of faculty staff trainees and students.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Leads a team and may manage a budget. Leads and develops a high performing internal communications team. Fosters a culture of innovation creativity collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Sets clear direction and provides growth and development opportunities for team members.
• Develops and implements comprehensive communications strategies for one or more large complex departments and/or units.
• Serves as a trusted communications advisor to senior leadership including department chairs and deans office leaders.
• Ensures brand consistency editorial quality and message alignment across all platforms.
• Tracks key metrics and reports on communications impact and effectiveness to the director of communications and to key business partners including department and deans office leaders.
• Designs and implements internal communications strategies to ensure strategic timely and relevant communications to faculty staff trainees and students.
• Serves as a strategic advisor to department or other business partners providing counsel on communication efforts that drive engagement trust and organizational alignment.
• Ensures consistency in tone voice and messaging architecture across departments and audiences.
• Monitors and shares best practices and trends in internal communications.
• Produces and edits high-quality content to include articles announcements speeches newsletters and leader messages.
• Translates complex scientific medical and educational topics into accessible engaging narratives.
• Identifies and elevates stories highlighting research discovery clinical innovations and achievements of students trainees faculty and staff.
• Builds and maintains strong relationships with key leaders faculty and staff in assigned areas to ensure understanding of department or unit goals objectives priorities and challenges.
• Collaborates with colleagues across the broader SOM and Emory Healthcare team including internal communications marketing digital social and media relations to ensure a cohesive approach to supporting assigned departments/units.
• May collaborate with communications teams at institutions including Grady Health System Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta and Georgia Tech to promote joint accomplishments and initiatives.
• Performs related responsibilities as required.
  
  

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• A bachelors degree in communications public relations marketing or related field and six years of strategic communications writing/editing research project management or related experience.
• Additional related experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Preferred qualifications include experience using internal messaging platforms and project management software; demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with high-level organizational leaders in a complex matrixed and fast-paced environment; and experience managing a team.
• Excellent writing and project management skills.

NOTE: Position tasks aregenerallyrequired to be performed in-person at an Emory University location. Remote workfrom homedayoptions may be grantedatdepartmentdiscretion.Emory reserves the right to changeremote workstatus with notice to employee.

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