Senior Director of Communications for Student Affairs

Senior Director of Communications for Student Affairs Stanford University has an immediate opening for a Senior Director of Communications in the Division of Student Affairs, which supports many student experiences outside the classroom in our residences, community centers, student organizations, health center, career education center, and more.In this role you will:Direct planning and implementation of long- and short-term communication plans with direct impact to the university, in strategic partnership with leadership.Accountable for the strategic execution of creative, compelling, and effective means of communicating the innovations, employee experience, academic excellence, and essential nature of the university and its components.Determine channels for Student Affairs key messages and execute strategies impacting multiple audiences, channels, and constituencies.Direct the actions of a small team and provide leadership to achieve communication goals supporting the university’s mission and vision.Responsible for hiring and retaining staff, career coaching, personal development for direct reports and accountable for the performance of employees.Develop guidance on protocols and best practices for a communications functional area of responsibility.Oversee Student Affairs and university key messages and develop strategies impacting multiple audiences, channels, and constituencies.Collaborate with University Communications leadership and Student Affairs units to ensure strategic plans and activities are aligned with overall university outreach and communications.Direct crisis communication response including emergency matters as well as issues with reputational impact and training communication leads in Student Affairs in various situations.To be successful in this role, you will bring:Bachelor’s degree and eight years of relevant experience or combination of education and relevant experience.Depth of experience, sound judgement, and confidence befitting a functional leadership position.Excels at writing, analyzing and synthesizing complex materials and with demonstrated ability to communicate highly technical or nuanced information in a manner easily understood under time constraints.Strategic and tactical thinking ability.Demonstrated ability to manage both situational and communication issues that have diverse and competing interests.Ability to synthesize information and viewpoints quickly and act on issues that require urgency.Understanding of the communications role in institutions. Excellence in communicating at all levels and for all audiences.Excellent influencing, negotiating, and relationship management skills.Demonstrated ability to earn credibility and influence opinion leaders.Creative thinker with a desire and ability to seek and optimize opportunities.Proven management skills. An ability to build and sustain a best-in-class communication team.Demonstrated ability to lead communication efforts across functions and school/units towards a common goal.Demonstrated ability to discern a strategy to move forward and make or escalate decisions as appropriate.In addition, our preferred qualifications include:Previous experience in a higher education system in a communications role.Strong writer for both internal and external audiences.Excellent collaborator with high emotional intelligence.PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTSConstantly perform desk-based computer tasks.Frequently stand/walk, sit, use a telephone, grasp lightly/fine manipulation, speaking.Occasionally grasp forcefully, writing by hand.Rarely sort/file paperwork.WORKING CONDITIONSThis is a hybrid position which requires 2 days of on-site work per week.Occasional work on evenings and weekends.WORK STANDARDSInterpersonal Skills: Demonstrates the ability to work well with Stanford colleagues and clients and with external organizations.Promote Culture of Safety: Demonstrates commitment to personal responsibility and value for safety; communicates safety concerns; uses and promotes safe behaviors based on training and lessons learned.Subject to and expected to comply with all applicable University policies and procedures.The expected pay range for this position is $162,000 to $200,000 per annum.At Stanford University, base pay represents only one aspect of the comprehensive rewards package. The Cardinal at Work website provides detailed information on Stanford’s extensive range of benefits and rewards offered to employees.HOW TO APPLY:

Do not pass up this chance, apply quickly if your experience and skills match what is in the following description.We invite you to apply by clicking on the “Apply for Job” button. To be considered, please submit your résumé and a one-page cover letter covering why you are interested in joining Stanford and Student Affairs along with your online application.Stanford is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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