Portfolio Director II, Marketing and Communications

Who We Are:

The Association of American Medical Colleges is a not-for-profit association dedicated to transforming health care by supporting the entire spectrum of medical education, medical research, patient care, and community collaborations conducted by our member institutions. We are dedicated to the communities we serve and steadfast in our goal to improve the health of people everywhere. The AAMC strives to make a positive impact not only in your career, but in your life. We offer a comprehensive benefits package which features:

Significant employer 403(b) contribution

Public transportation subsidy

Generous paid time off program

Tuition reimbursement

Wellness program

Why us, why now?  

The Portfolio Director II, Marketing and Communications leads the overall strategy and design for the integrated strategic communications and marketing portfolio management practice. Integrated Portfolio Management is a new function and team within the AAMC’s Communications and Marketing cluster, akin to account management. The Director II will be responsible for establishing the integrated portfolio management practice, leading two Portfolio Directors as well as managing their own portfolio of business partners and topic areas.  

How will you make an impact?  

Integrated Communications & Marketing Strategy 

• Scans the organization and works with leaders to identify the topics and initiatives that most contribute to keeping the AAMC relevant and responsive and assigns them to portfolios to be managed. 

• Leads the Communications Portfolio Team to develop integrated communications and marketing strategies for topics and initiatives that cross multiple clusters, involve diverse sets of subject matter experts, and tap multiple communications and marketing fields. 

• Establishes an integrated communications and marketing practice that looks across portfolios with a generalist view and crafts integrated strategies that incorporate best practices from multiple communications and marketing domains including marketing, strategic communications, public relations, content & creative, and digital engagement, tapping and highlighting the cluster’s talent and expertise. 

• Leads discussions with the Communications Leadership Team (CLT) and partners with peers to resolve varied interests, objectives, and possibilities to achieve alignment on shared strategic objectives. 

• Oversees the creation of portfolio plans that chart the progress of AAMC’s integrated communications and marketing efforts and facilitates evaluation and identification of portfolio priorities evolving team’s focus based on progress and tradeoff decisions against incoming opportunities. 

• Establishes criteria by which themes and projects are identified and assigned to portfolios to be managed. 

Portfolio Advisory and Team Management 

• Leads a multi-disciplinary team of two communications and marketing portfolio directors who serve as business partners to OCOMM’s cluster partners and who champion integrated communications and marketing strategies for portfolio projects. 

• Maintains and oversees the OCOMM Portfolio Program roadmap and uses operational data and insights to make decisions about the program. 

• Oversees the design, implementation, and cyclical maintenance of portfolio plans and service level agreements with partners. 

• Supports portfolio managers in the completion of regular planning and update meetings with partner points of contact to co-create the big picture view and goals for each portfolio and to forecast and prioritize upcoming work. 

• Manages the selection, onboarding, development, and performance of portfolio managers. 

• Applies portfolio and partner knowledge to resolve escalations related to disagreement on strategy or dissatisfaction with level of service. 

• Works with Project Management and Operations Team to ensure that portfolio managers are tapped to participate in the kickoff of related portfolio-aligned projects, allowing them to ensure alignment with portfolio strategies and work closely with project managers to ensure projects stay on scope. 

• Works with OComm Functional Leads to understand and champion functional goals and product best practices. 

• Reviews Tier 4-5 integrated strategy documents created by portfolio managers, them to bring an enterprise mindset. 

• Leads the design, approval, administration, and reporting of the annual partner satisfaction survey. 

• Works with partners and functional leads to prioritize process improvement initiatives stemming from survey insights. 

• Manages the Portfolio Program budget and resources.