Marketing and Communications Strategist, Enterprise Initiatives

* Serve as the lead MarComm partner to executive sponsors, project leaders, business owners and other stakeholders for assigned initiatives.* Develop sufficient knowledge of each initiative's purpose, decisions, stakeholders and dependencies to provide credible strategic counsel and maintain continuity throughout the work.* Participate in project governance, planning meetings and working groups early enough to identify communications needs before they become urgent.* Build alignment among leaders and partners on communications objectives, key messages, timing, responsibilities and approval processes.* Coordinate with human resources, information technology, clinical operations, finance, academic units and other functions as relevant to each initiative.* Clarify communications ownership and decision-making responsibilities for work that spans multiple teams, operating environments or institutional partners.* Advise project leaders on sensitive, high-visibility or high-risk communications and facilitate appropriate institutional review.* Surface conflicts, dependencies or stakeholder concerns that could affect communications effectiveness or project adoption.* Maintain trusted working relationships across the institution and help resolve differing organizational needs or competing considerations.* Advanced knowledge of integrated communications strategy, organizational change communications and stakeholder engagement.* Ability to connect institutional and project goals to clear audience strategies, messaging, implementation plans and measures of success.* Broad proficiency across communications disciplines, including content development, internal communications, executive communications, media relations, brand and digital engagement.* Ability to independently execute a wide range of communications work while recognizing when specialized expertise, institutional coordination or additional capacity is required.* Strong judgment in assessing communications complexity, visibility, stakeholder impact and institutional risk.* Exceptional writing, editing and message-development skills across platforms, formats and audiences.* Ability to understand complex operational, technical or organizational changes and explain them clearly to affected audiences.* Strong consultation and relationship-management skills, including the ability to advise senior leaders, project sponsors and subject-matter experts.* Experience supporting large, cross-functional initiatives through communications planning and execution.* Ability to manage a fractional portfolio, anticipate workload peaks and balance competing priorities without losing continuity or accountability.* Ability to navigate communications across multiple institutions, operating environments and brands while maintaining clarity around roles, approvals and messaging.* Ability to influence without formal authority, resolve competing stakeholder needs and build alignment across complex organizational structures.* Experience managing large projects or processes with limited oversight, including establishing scope, timelines, responsibilities and measures of success.* Knowledge of project communications, employee communications, digital content strategy, analytics and audience experience.* Ability to develop scalable communications processes, templates, standards and resources for repeated use across initiatives.* Demonstrated ability to mentor colleagues and provide leadership within an area of expertise.* Familiarity with communications considerations in academic medicine, health care, higher education or similarly complex and regulated environments.* Ability to exercise discretion and sound judgment when managing sensitive, high-profile or reputationally significant matters.* Bachelor's degree in communications, marketing, public relations, journalism or a related field.* Eight years of relevant experience in marketing, communications, public relations, content strategy or a related discipline.* Demonstrated experience independently leading complex, cross-functional marketing or communications initiatives.* Experience in academic medicine, health care, higher education or another complex and regulated environment.* Experience supporting enterprise transformation, technology implementations, operational redesign or other major organizational initiatives.* Experience developing communications strategies that support stakeholder understanding, readiness, adoption and sustained change.* Experience working with executive sponsors, project leaders, functional teams and subject-matter experts in a matrixed organization.* Experience serving as a communications adviser within an organization that also includes specialized communications functions.* Experience managing communications for multiple concurrent initiatives or a fractional project portfolio.* Experience coordinating communications across multiple organizational entities, programs, brands or approval structures.* Experience advising senior leaders and managing sensitive or high-profile communications.* Experience with web content management systems, email platforms, employee communications channels, analytics platforms and project-management systems.* Familiarity with The University of Texas at Austin and the Central Texas health care environment.**Start Here, Change the World**At The University of Texas at Austin, tradition meets innovation in the heart of a city that frequents lists of the best places to live and work. 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