Senior Communications Specialist - AI Operations
About The Position
The Senior Communications Specialist is an expert in communications, media relations, social media, digital, news, and/or staff engagement communications activities. This role involves taking an active leadership role across Mayo Clinic to understand business objectives and build communications strategies and plans to support them. The individual will provide strategic communications consultation and guidance to various clients, and will be responsible for planning, driving, implementing, monitoring, and measuring the results of communications plans to advance Mayo Clinic’s mission, strategic plan, and business objectives. The specialist will develop and execute functional and cross-functional plans, manage complex projects through their entire lifecycle, and proactively build positive relationships with colleagues, leaders, and experts. They will serve as a role model, represent Mayo Clinic internally and externally, and demonstrate an understanding of audience dynamics to tailor communication delivery. The role requires conveying confidence, clarity, and transparency with stakeholders and leaders, contributing to business planning and strategy development, and driving strategies and tactics to execution. The Senior Communications Specialist will also lead teams and provide leadership to others, including contractors and third parties.
Requirements
- A bachelor’s degree in a related field, which may include liberal arts, business, communications, marketing, healthcare, or similar field
- 5 years professional experience in a relevant field
- Proven expertise in creating and executing communications strategies based upon business objectives
- Strong leadership, problem solving, critical thinking, active listening, persuasive oral and written communication skills, presentation skills and interpersonal skills
- Proven communications consultative, planning and execution abilities
- Ability to work effectively in a consensus-style and collaborative environment that expects and promotes teamwork
- Comfortable in a fast-paced, changing environment
- High personal motivation supporting a strong work ethic, flexibility, and creativity
- Ability to inspire trust and confidence, and maintain a high degree of professionalism and confidentiality
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively to drive forward multiple projects
- Has a positive influence on others
Responsibilities
- Take an active leadership role across Mayo Clinic to understand business objectives, and build communications strategies and plans to support those objectives
- Provide strategic communications consultation and guidance to various clients
- Plan, drive, implement, monitor and measure results of communications plans to advance Mayo Clinic’s mission, strategic plan and business objectives
- Develops and executes functional and cross-functional plans to advance Mayo Clinic’s strategic plan
- Manages complex and cross-functional projects through entire project life cycle to achieve objectives and measure results
- Proactively seeks opportunities to build and improve positive relationships with colleagues, leaders, and experts
- Serves as a role model for others and represents Mayo Clinic internally and externally
- Demonstrates understanding of audience dynamics and tailors delivery to achieve objectives among varied audiences
- Conveys confidence, clarity and transparency in communications with stakeholders and leaders
- Proactively contributes to business planning and strategy development
- Proactively drives strategies and tactics forward to execution
- Leads teams and provides leadership to others, including contractors and third parties, to drive execution
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
