Senior Manager - Thought Leadership

Company Description

Covista (NYSE: CVSA) is America's largest healthcare educator, serving 100,000 students and supported by a community of 400,000 alumni across five accredited institutions. Through personalized, tech-enabled education powered by 10,000 faculty and colleagues, Covista expands access to healthcare careers and addresses the U.S. healthcare workforce shortage ista is the parent company of American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, Chamberlain University, Ross University School of Medicine, Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine and Walden University.

Our colleagues come from a wide range of backgrounds, business, academia, healthcare, government and nonprofits, and are part of a culture where doing exceptional work and making a meaningful difference for students and society aren't separate goals—they're one and the same. This means creating an environment where colleagues can develop new skills, build careers that match their ambitions and see the tangible impact of their work on healthcare education and workforce development.

Colleagues who deliver results and embrace new tools to work smarter are valued for their contributions. But what makes working at Covista distinctive is our impact. Our faculty and colleagues don't just support healthcare education—they shape it. This isn't abstract purpose work. It's solving real problems for real people in real communities while advancing careers. We operate on a hybrid schedule with four in-office days per week (Monday–Thursday).

This approach enhances creativity, innovation, communication, and relationship-building, fostering a dynamic and collaborative work environment. For more information, visit  and follow us on Linked In, Instagram and You Tube.

Covista is a leading workforce solutions provider, empowering students and professionals to achieve their goals and advance healthcare outcomes. The Senior Manager - Thought Leadership is a key member of Covista's Thought Leadership team, reporting to the Senior Director, Thought Leadership, and serves as the primary driver of Covista's research-based influence strategy — with a focus on addressing the nation's healthcare workforce shortage.

The senior manager partners with the senior director, thought leadership, to create rigorous, data-driven thought leadership reports that position Covista as a trusted authority in healthcare workforce development. The ideal candidate combines program management, analysis and research expertise with the ability to translate complex analyses into compelling narratives that shape conversations among policymakers, investors, media and industry leaders. This role sits at the intersection of strategy, research and communication requiring intellectual curiosity, meticulous execution, and an instinct for storytelling that advances Covista's brand and mission.

• Design rigorous, novel research studies and methodologies for Covista's thought leadership publications.
• Manage the insight-generation process across the thought leadership pipeline, ensuring alignment with Covista's multi-year research strategy, healthcare education priorities and brand positioning.
• Conduct analysis of survey results and third-party data sets using business intelligence and data visualization tools.
• Produce high-impact research reports, white papers and data-driven analyses—translating findings into compelling narratives that highlight Covista's role in solving the healthcare workforce crisis.
• Manage the production process for thought leadership reports including writing, graphics planning and review process, ensuring accuracy, brand consistency and on-time delivery.
• Maintain rigorous quality standards across all published work, ensuring outputs…