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Posted: 14-Mar-24
Location: New Haven, Connecticut
Type: Full-time
Salary: Open
Internal Number: 87068BR
1. Serve as senior leader of university and/or professional school communications. 2. Manage key relationships with clients with high degree of professionalism, judgment, and understanding of University initiatives, goals and mission. 3. Oversee long-range and short-range planning for coordinated communications channels. 4. Serve as key strategist to improve broad staff and faculty communications initiatives and campaigns; design, mange, and implement communication or marketing plans for key initiatives. 5. Develop and implement communication strategic plan promoting Yale's strength to a variety of audiences throughout the globe, using both traditional and digital media. 6. Direct communications planning for the all internal and/or external announcements, statements and messages on various institutional issues and initiatives and oversee their dissemination to the media and other parities. 7. Direct communication strategies based on user and audience preference; analyze and understand various communication preferences of client group. 8. Establish standards and protocols for best practices in communications. 9. Act as executive producer of content including articles, video and photo galleries. 10. Arrange interviews on various issues and provide briefing and background materials, message points, content and training.
Required Skill/ability 1: A skilled and professional communications leader with a track record of engaging a range of audiences, the proven ability to think independently and offer constructive upward feedback, and demonstrated experience building and maintaining relationships with senior staff at relevant media outlets.
Required Skill/ability 2: Rigor and fluency in communicating evidence-based social science research with demonstrated expertise writing about complex economic policy issues for non-academic audiences.
Required Skill/ability 3: An entrepreneur and team leader who can thrive in a dynamic, collaborative, and lean start-up work environment, and who will take the initiative to identify and advance opportunities, providing just-in-time support when opportune moments arise.
Required Skill/ability 4: A thoughtful relationship builder and engaging communicator who has successfully built and maintained networks with partners from government, nonprofits, philanthropy, business, and higher education institutions; and who will engage thoughtfully with issues related to race, class, identity, equity, ethics, and the multi-faceted complexity of relevant policy environments.
Required Skill/ability 5: A flexible, resourceful, strategic, and well-organized project manager who can coordinate multi-faceted and complex projects, including the proven ability to anticipate issues, develop proactive solutions, and engage the right stakeholders to support and champion success.
Preferred Education: 10+ years of relevant experience; a deep understanding of economics and social policy; demonstrated experience communicating quantitative research is strongly desired.
Work Week: Standard (M-F equal number of hours per day)
Posting Position Title: Communications, Director
University Job Title: Director of Strategic Communications and Outreach
Preferred Education, Experience and Skills: 10+ years of relevant experience; a deep understanding of economics and social policy; demonstrated experience communicating quantitative research is strongly desired.
Bachelor's degree in Communications, English, Journalism or related field and eight years of experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
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Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university located in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States.
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