Advisor-Communications Senior

IU Health • Indianapolis, IN

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About The Position

The Senior Communications Advisor serves as a communications leader and trusted business partner, developing and implementing integrated communications strategies that advance organizational priorities, strengthen stakeholder engagement, and drive understanding and action among internal and external audiences. As a member of the Communications Executive Leadership Team, the advisor provides strategic communications counsel on business initiatives, organizational change, and team member and leader communications.

Working cross-functionally, the advisor leads high-impact initiatives from strategy through execution and develops, writes, and delivers audience-centered communications for team members, leaders, physicians, patients, community stakeholders, and other key audiences. The role contributes to enterprise communications strategies, advances communications best practices, and promotes consistency and excellence across IU Health. The advisor helps ensure communications support business objectives and reinforce the organization’s mission, vision, and values.

The ideal candidate is a strategic, collaborative, adaptable, and business-minded communications leader with executive presence, sound judgment, exceptional writing skills, and the ability to translate complex business priorities into clear communications strategies that build connection, alignment, and action. Applicants must provide a portfolio link or writing samples demonstrating executive, strategic, change management, or other high-impact communications work.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 7–10 years of relevant experience required.
• Exceptional writing abilities.
• Ability to translate complex business priorities into clear communications strategies.
• Strong executive presence and sound judgment.
• Strategic, collaborative, adaptable, and business-minded approach.
• Applicants must include a portfolio link or writing samples demonstrating executive communications, strategic communications, change management communications, or other high-impact communications work.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement integrated communications strategies that advance organizational priorities and strengthen stakeholder engagement.
• Provide strategic communications counsel on business initiatives, organizational change, and team member and leader communications.
• Lead and influence high-impact communications initiatives from strategy through execution.
• Develop, write, and deliver communications for team members, leaders, physicians, patients, community stakeholders, and other key audiences.
• Contribute to enterprise communications strategies and advance communications best practices.
• Help drive consistency and excellence across the system and ensure communications reinforce IU Health’s mission, vision, and values.
• Collaborate across Communications and the broader organization to build understanding and engagement among key audiences.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior