Manager, Communications - Mayo Clinic Health System

Mayo Clinic • Rochester, MN

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About The Position

The Communications Manager is responsible for managing Communications Department support for Mayo Clinic Health System (MCHS) to successfully advance an integrated strategy to support business priorities in the internal and external environments. The manager will assemble cross-functional teams to plan, execute, and measure strategic communications plans for broad, MCHS-based audiences and specific stakeholder groups in alignment with strategic priorities. The manager will collaborate on proactive public relations campaigns and help manage local reputation and visibility efforts. This role will also ensure strong collaboration with community relations colleagues to identify, elevate, and coordinate opportunities to strengthen relationships with community partners, local stakeholders, and patients. Additional responsibilities will include executive support for staff engagement and priority internal and external run of business needs. The Manager will work closely with the Vice Chair, Content, Integration and Delivery. The successful candidate will have strong experience in communications, public relations, successfully managing cross-functional teams, and working with executive-level leaders. This vacancy is not eligible for sponsorship/ we will not sponsor or transfer visas for this position. Also, Mayo Clinic DOES NOT participate in the F-1 STEM OPT extension program.

Requirements

• Requires a bachelor's degree in a related field plus 5 years of relevant work experience.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to communicate in a way that creates clarity, simplifies messages, and aligns with organizational strategy.
• Knowledge of channels for communication and the ability to build effective communication and engagement strategies.
• Must be a self-starter with the ability to independently identify opportunities, solutions and resolve challenges.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver impactful results.
• Requires an attitude that actively seeks out change, embraces critical questioning, innovation, service and continuous improvement.
• Must understand how to deal with and navigate ambiguity, and act without having the total picture.
• Adaptable or flexible.
• Demonstrated professionalism and ethics, with ability to earn credibility through integrity and transparency.
• Role models service excellence.
• Motivates others by being present, engaged, attentive, invites diverse perspectives, demonstrates and inspires a collaborative spirit.
• Demonstration of strong management skills including strategy and visioning, change management, resource management, and sound judgment are required.
• Demonstrated use of management principles of delegation, organization and execution to maximize the value of projects and initiatives is also essential.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to include presentation, negotiation, persuasion, team facilitation, constructive feedback and written communications skills are required.
• Superior project management experience, knowledge and skills must be demonstrated.
• Incumbent must have the ability to independently manage a varied workload of projects with multiple priorities.
• Demonstrates interest in continuous learning and professional development, in addition to functional area expertise.

Responsibilities

• Managing Communications Department support for Mayo Clinic Health System (MCHS) to successfully advance an integrated strategy to support business priorities in the internal and external environments.
• Assemble cross-functional teams to plan, execute, and measure strategic communications plans for broad, MCHS-based audiences and specific stakeholder groups in alignment with strategic priorities.
• Collaborate on proactive public relations campaigns and help manage local reputation and visibility efforts.
• Ensure strong collaboration with community relations colleagues to identify, elevate, and coordinate opportunities to strengthen relationships with community partners, local stakeholders, and patients.
• Executive support for staff engagement and priority internal and external run of business needs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees