Job Title
Nemours is seeking a Director, Enterprise Internal Communication.
The Director, Internal Communications, serves as a trusted strategic advisor to executive and senior leadership across the organization and owns all internal communications across Nemours Children’s Health, ensuring they advance strategic priorities, strengthen culture, and drive enterprise alignment.
The Director leads the translation of Nemours Children’s brand narrative, mission, and overarching strategic priorities into a single coherent organizational voice, leading integrated campaigns and coordinating with other communications teams to deliver enterprise priorities across internal and external audiences.
Essential Functions
These responsibilities are of utmost importance and the department cannot function without them.
- Enterprise Internal Communications Strategy: Develop, own, and continuously evolve Nemours Children’s enterprise internal communications strategy. Lead integrated communications planning aligned to institutional direction, ensuring alignment across internal and external channels. Proactively identify communications opportunities and risks tied to enterprise strategy and serve as a senior strategic internal communications advisor to executive leaders and enterprise business functions.
- Brand Narrative Communications: Partner with Marketing and Communications leadership to translate the enterprise messaging architecture, brand strategy, and organizational values into clear, consistent communications for associates that reinforce who Nemours is, what it stands for, and where it is going. Partner closely with Brand Strategy, External Communications, and Social Media to ensure the internal expressions of the Nemours brand are coherent, complementary, and mutually reinforcing across channels. Serve as the guardian of the internal narrative, ensuring consistency across audiences, channels and leadership communications.
- Internal Channels & Content Strategy: Oversee the strategy, governance, and performance of all associate-facing communications channels and platforms across the enterprise. Ensure content is strategic, audience-centered, and aligned to enterprise priorities. Lead audience segmentation and channel optimization strategies that deliver the right messages to the right people with clarity and impact. Maintain editorial oversight of the intranet, all-staff communications, leader messaging programs, digital platforms, and emerging channels. Establish communications rhythms and channel strategies that strengthen culture, reinforce priorities, and enable organizational alignment.
- Executive Communications: Serve as a communications partner to executive leaders for internal and enterprise-facing communications. Bring strong writing and editing skills to deliver high-impact content and ensure executive voice is consistent, authentic, missionaligned, and resonant with diverse associate audiences across the enterprise. Partner with the communications leadership to ensure a coherent and intentional executive narrative across all platforms.
- Strategic Communications Counsel: Provide senior-level strategic communications counsel and planning in partnership with business leaders and other senior stakeholders to support enterprise priorities from early planning through execution. Serve as a trusted advisor who brings both deep communications expertise and strong business acumen to help leaders clarify objectives, anticipate risks, align messaging with organizational priorities, and strengthen decision-making. Evolve the operating model, norms, and accountabilities for the business partner function so internal communications operates as a proactive strategic asset across the enterprise.
- Communications Systems and Infrastructure: Establish and maintain the operational foundation of internal communications through repeatable processes, integrated planning frameworks, and technology platforms that increase efficiency, coordination, and measurable impact. Partner across Marketing and Communications to develop shared planning tools, editorial calendars, and documented workflows that enable integrated communications across channels and teams. Build frameworks that help leaders at every level communicate strategy, change, and culture more effectively.
- Team Leadership and Development: Lead, develop, motivate, and manage a high-performing communications team. Teach, coach, and mentor direct reports and foster a culture of strategic thinking, operational discipline, and continuous improvement. Support recruitment, onboarding, performance development, and succession planning for the team with intention and consistency.
- Budget and Resource Management: Coordinate and manage the internal communications budget, including annual planning, quarterly forecasting, and agency and vendor resource management. Ensure investment decisions are grounded in strategic priorities and that the team consistently delivers measurable value against institutional communications goals.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Communications or a related field required; Master's degree in Strategic Communications, Business, or a related discipline preferred.
- 12 to 15 years of progressive communications experience, with a significant portion in enterprise, corporate, executive, business, or internal communications in a complex organization.
- Demonstrated experience advising C-suite and senior leaders on communications strategy and content, with a track record of building and managing high-performing teams and enterprise-wide communications programs tied to measurable business and organizational outcomes.
- Healthcare, nonprofit, or mission-driven sector experience in a corporate setting strongly preferred.
About Us
Nemours Children's Health is an internationally recognized pediatric health system serving more than 1.7 million patient encounters each year. We deliver care across six states through two freestanding children’s hospitals — Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida — along with a network of more than 80 primary, urgent, and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospital partnerships.
Backed by the Nemours Foundation and Alfred I. duPont Trust, our $1.7B nonprofit system is dedicated to improving children's health through clinical care, research, education, advocacy, and prevention. Our Whole Child Health approach focuses equally on prevention and treatment, partnering with communities to help every child thrive.
Inclusion and belonging guide our strategy and growth. We are committed to culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and fostering an environment where every associate, patient, and family feels supported and valued.
Learn more at Nemours.org.
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