Strategic Communications Manager

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

Education & Experience:

Bachelor's degree and five years of relevant experience or combination of education and relevant experience.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: 

 • Excellent written communication skills, reporting skills, and advanced skills in conceptual editing, copy editing, and proofreading.
 • Ability to work collaboratively with internal communications groups across campus. 
 • Demonstrated interpersonal skills in working with a variety of people.
 • Capacity to write and synthesize materials and communicate information in a manner easily understood.

Preferred/Desired Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: 
 • Excellent strategic planning, project management, and problem-solving skills.
 • Demonstrated ability and flexibility in managing shifting demands and priorities, taking direction, meeting deadlines, and taking initiative
 • Proficiency in Google suite, Microsoft Office Suite, project management tools, and customer relationship management systems, email marketing systems, Adobe Creative Suite, and Drupal
 • Experience supervising and motivating diverse individuals and groups
 • Ability to maintain discretion when handling sensitive information, exercise sound judgment, tact, and diplomacy
 • Demonstrated interest in current events, modern history and humanities, and/or familiarity with cultural heritage institutions such as libraries, archives, museums, or other community-oriented nonprofits work strongly preferred. 

Certifications and Licenses:

 • None

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS*:

 • Constantly perform desk-based computer tasks.
 • Frequently stand/walk, sit, use a telephone, grasp lightly/fine manipulation, speaking.
 • Occasionally grasp forcefully, writing by hand. 
 • Rarely sort/file paperwork.
* - Consistent with its obligations under the law, the University will provide reasonable accommodation to any employee with a disability who requires accommodation to perform the essential functions of the job.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

 • Occasional work on evenings and weekends.
 • On call and ability to respond 24/7.

The expected pay range for this position is $98,000 - $126,000 per annum. Stanford University provides pay ranges representing its good faith estimate of what the university reasonably expects to pay for a position. The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, internal equity, geographic location, and external market pay for comparable jobs.

WORK STANDARDS:

 • Interpersonal Skills: Demonstrates the ability to work well with Stanford colleagues and clients as well as with external organizations.
 • Promote Culture of Safety: Demonstrates commitment to personal responsibility and value for safety; communicates safety concerns; uses and promotes safe behaviors based on training and lessons learned.
 • Subject to and expected to comply with all applicable University policies and procedures, including but not limited to the personnel policies and other policies found in the University's Administrative Guide, http://adminguide.stanford.edu.

The Hoover Institution at Stanford University is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.