Executive Director, Public Affairs - Georgia

This role supports the Georgia Market

Job Summary:
The Market Public Affairs Leader serves as the senior-most Public Affairs leader within the market and is responsible for advancing and protecting Kaiser Permanentes reputation, mission, strategic priorities, and business objectives through integrated communications, media relations, community affairs, stakeholder engagement, local government relations, executive positioning, and issues management.

Reporting directly to the Chief Public Affairs Officer and maintaining a dotted-line relationship to the Regional President, this leader serves as the primary Public Affairs advisor to market leadership and operates at the intersection of enterprise strategy and market execution. The role is accountable for ensuring enterprise Public Affairs priorities are effectively translated into market strategies, stakeholder engagement efforts, campaigns, communications programs, and community activities while ensuring local market realities inform enterprise decision-making. As part of the Chief Public Affairs Leadership Table, this role also carries an enterprise leadership mandate and contributes to shaping Public Affairs priorities, alignment, and decision-making across Kaiser Permanente.

The Market Public Affairs Leader serves as the primary Public Affairs point of contact for market leadership. While certain Public Affairs functions, including State Affairs and Federal Government Relations, maintain direct reporting relationships to enterprise leaders, this role is responsible for ensuring all Public Affairs activities within the market are coordinated, aligned, and executed through a unified One KP approach. The position provides a single point of integration for market leadership, ensuring enterprise capabilities are effectively leveraged and market needs are effectively represented across the Public Affairs function.

The Market Public Affairs Leader leads a market-based Public Affairs team responsible for communications, media relations, community affairs, stakeholder engagement, local government relations, executive positioning, reputation management, and issues management. The role works in close partnership with enterprise centers of excellence across External Communications, State Affairs, Federal Affairs, Internal Communications & Engagement, Community Affairs & Engagement, Advocacy, Marketing, Legal, Policy & Regulatory Affairs, and Community Health.

Internal communications will be more tightly integrated between national and markets, with national internal communications supporting shared platforms, greater consistency, and a One KP voice. At the same time, markets will continue to lead the operational and market-specific communications required to advance local priorities. That includes everything from day-to-day workforce communications to sustained change management campaigns tied directly to how a market competes, including quality measure improvement, care delivery transformation, and operational shifts that require employees to work differently. These are not enterprise storytelling exercises; they are operational necessities, and they require local knowledge, local relationships, and dedicated capacity.

As the senior Public Affairs leader in the market, this individual serves as a trusted advisor to market leadership, medical group leadership, and health plan leadership, helping leaders navigate complex business, reputational, community, labor, political, and stakeholder dynamics. This leader is also a visible executive presence in the market and helps cultivate trusted network relationships across the health care delivery system, including with providers, purchasers, employers, labor leaders, community partners, and other influential stakeholders. The role ensures Kaiser Permanente maintains strong relationships with local media, community leaders, nonprofit organizations, civic organizations, chambers of commerce, local elected officials, business groups, and other key stakeholders while advancing enterprise priorities and preserving local trust and credibility.

Success in this role requires balancing enterprise consistency with local relevance, operating as both a strategic counselor and operational leader, and ensuring Kaiser Permanente maintains a coordinated, visible, and trusted presence throughout the communities it serves.

Essential Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership & Executive Counsel

Serve as the senior Public Affairs advisor to market leadership.

Serve as a member of the market leadership team and the Chief Public Affairs Leadership Table, representing market priorities, opportunities, stakeholder insights, and reputational considerations within enterprise Public Affairs planning and governance processes.

Help shape enterprise Public Affairs strategies and priorities by providing market insights, stakeholder perspectives, competitive intelligence, community intelligence, and business context.

Advise leaders on communications, stakeholder engagement, reputation management, labor dynamics, public policy implications, and emerging issues that may affect market performance.

Support executive decision-making through strategic counsel, risk assessment, stakeholder insights, and communications planning.

Public Affairs Leadership & Coordination

Serve as the primary Public Affairs leader and point of contact for market leadership.

Coordinate Public Affairs activities across Communications, Media Relations, Community Affairs, Stakeholder Engagement, Local Government Relations, State Affairs, Federal Government Relations, Advocacy, and enterprise centers of excellence to ensure alignment and effective execution of enterprise and market priorities.

Ensure market leadership, including medical group and health plan leadership, has a clear, coordinated, and integrated Public Affairs strategy that reflects the full capabilities of the Public Affairs organization.

Convene and lead regular market Public Affairs planning, prioritization, and coordination efforts to ensure alignment across functions and eliminate duplication.

Ensure market Public Affairs strategies support enterprise priorities while reflecting local business objectives, stakeholder needs, and community realities.

Market Reputation & Communications Leadership

Lead market communications and reputation strategies in alignment with enterprise priorities and business objectives.

Serve as the senior leader accountable for market reputation management, stakeholder trust, and coordinated execution of enterprise Public Affairs priorities.

Develop and implement

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