Strategic Communications Specialist UVA Community Health

• Supports internal and external communications strategies to achieve specific, measurable goals, ensuring needs of executive communications plans are met aligned with system priorities.
• Serves as the primary conduit for and tracker of copy flow through the editorial process for executive communications.
• Partners with administrative professionals for executives to ensure communications projects fit into schedules and are kept on time and on target.
• Plan, develop, and publish internal and external communications for UVA Health and UVA Medical Center leaders, including but not limited to correspondence, talking points, and videos.
• Write and edit various in-house and external publications, including but not limited to newsletters, press releases, profiles, and articles. Consult with staff, faculty, and outside sources as necessary to ensure accuracy.
• Coordinate and assist with in-person and virtual events for leaders, including providing talking points and other preparation.
• Maintains social media presence for leaders and collaborates with social media team to ensure executives' social media presence aligns with organization's broader social media strategy.
• Serves as first point-of-contact for certain communications platforms, as assigned. Responds to emails and phone calls as needed.
• Ensures compliance with editorial guidelines and visual standards.
• Manages measurement of executive communications initiatives.
• Supports significant special projects as assigned by department leadership.
• Provide general clerical and administrative support to the Director of Strategic Communications and broader Marketing and Communications team.
• In addition to the above job responsibilities, other duties may be assigned.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Education: Bachelor's Degree in a related field such as English, Communications, Public Relations, Journalism, Marketing.

Experience: At least two years of experience in corporate or executive communications, internal communications, marketing, public relations, or a related field.
Licensure: None.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

This is primarily a sedentary job involving extensive use of desktop computers. The job does occasionally require traveling some distance to attend meetings, and programs.

The University of Virginia, including the UVA Health System which represents the UVA Medical Center, Schools of Medicine and Nursing, UVA Physician's Group and the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, are fundamentally committed to the diversity of our faculty and staff. We believe diversity is excellence expressing itself through every person's perspectives and lived experiences. We are equal opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, and family medical or genetic information.