University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus 

Department: Department of Administration - Dean

Job Title: Director of Marketing, Communications &  Strategic Partnerships

Position #: 00753260– Requisition #:37692

Job Summary:

The School of Dental Medicine (SDM) has an opening for a Director of Marketing, Communications, & Strategic Partnerships. This role will be responsible for leading and directing all aspects of communication, marketing, and strategic partnerships for the SDM, including internal and external communications, media relations, public and private engagement, and increasing awareness of the school’s mission and vision. The position also oversees enrollment marketing for academic programs and leads all marketing efforts across the clinical and academic enterprise. The role works closely with associate deans, department chairs, faculty, and other school leadership to support the teaching, research, clinical, and service missions of the SDM, and represents the school in all communications and branding matters across campus and university committees.

Key Responsibilities:

Communication and Media Relations:

• Manage the dean’s executive communication needs including briefings, speech and presentation development, and internal communiqués.

• Coordinates, strategizes and trains SDM members for media interviews.

• Serve as editor of and writer for the semiannual alumni magazine; write press releases, articles, speeches, brochures, content for social media, and other forms of electronic media.  Creation of videos for use in patient communication and SDM website.

• In collaboration with CU Anschutz Office of Communications, define the school’s strategic communication plan to increase awareness of and support for the school, its mission and programs, in a consistent and compelling format.

• Serves as the SDM media liaison and spokesperson and fosters positive and proactive public and media coverage of the school and its programs, including responsibility for developing news releases, media advisories, legislative relations, public relations strategies, and crisis communications communication.

• Responsible for technical updates, ADA compliance, website technical monitoring, and important web updates, working alongside the Office of Information Technology.

• Provides oversight of the webmaster for the School of Dental Medicine’s website.

• Monitor SDM unified branding, compliance, licensing, and provide key messaging, print collateral, web, social media, and patient communications oversight for clinical, research, and academic branding.

• Manage, design, and monitor SDM website to engage potential students, faculty, and patients.

• Ability to create and design effective and unique webpages to engage potential students, faculty and patients, and to ensure dissemination of accurate and up-to-date information to current faculty, students, and staff.

• Work with external vendors on promotional i