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Posted: 01-Jul-22
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Type: Full-time
Salary: Open
Location: Chicago, IL
Job Description:
- Leads all FST program communications efforts including email, website, presentations, print materials, communications toolkits for campus partners, key messages and talking points.
- Builds, deploys, and supports the use of communication toolkit for key campus stakeholders in collaboration with units.
- Identifies critical items and creates, maintains, and disseminates all key messages.
- Collaborates with University leadership to ensure message alignment.
- As a senior member of the OCM Team, supports all change management efforts including stakeholder relationships.
- Collaborates with the Systems Integrator to understand critical program milestones.
- Creates and maintains comprehensive project documentation including detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and status reports.
- Identifies content needs and leads collection / creation efforts.
- Owns multi-channel communications strategy and execution.
- Collaborates with University communications community and change network.
- Reports to University senior management as needed.
- Tracks and monitors data from multiple sources across campus to inform decision-making (i.e. email open rates, website traffic, etc.)
- Collaborates on special events related to strategic initiatives as needed.
- Strives for quality.
- Assigns responsibilities.
- Delivers status reports to upper management.
- Works with stakeholders to drive business requirements and gain adoption.
- Performs other related work as needed, especially as related to change management, stakeholder engagement, and training.
- Acts as a strategist or project lead to plan, develop and disseminate information designed to keep the public informed of the organization's programs, accomplishments, or point of view.
- Solves complex and unique problems related to the writing, preparation, and/or delivery of information from or about the unit.
- Performs other related work as needed.
Preferred Qualifications
Education:
Experience:
- Progressively responsible roles in communications, specifically internal communications.
- Experience in higher education or large corporation with complex operations.
- Managing professional staff.
- Rstablishing teams to achieve objectives.
- Experience with senior executive stakeholder management.
- Coordinating activities in complex projects from conception through successful conclusion.
- Distilling complex information into an executive level summary.
- Experience with internal communications.
- Working with UChicago Senior stakeholders (e.g., CFO, Provost, CIO).
- Supporting process or technology change in large and complex organizations.
Certifications:
- Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification - Project Management Institute or ADKAR Prosci Change Management certification.
Technical Skills or Knowledge:
- Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Visio.
Preferred Competencies
- Identify areas of need, prioritize time, and execute against need.
- Manage individual and team assignments to deliver a defined outcome.
- Manage competing priorities, work simultaneously on multiple initiatives, and meet deadlines.
- Strong project management and organizational skills.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
- Critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Capable of directing work with cross-functional teams.
- Participate as a team player and positively influence a group.
Working Conditions
- Sit for short or extended time periods.
- Stand for short or extended time periods.
- Extensively use computer.
- Make repetitive wrist, hand, or finger movements.
Application Documents
- Resume/CV (required)
- Cover Letter (required)
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