Director, Internal Communications

About Covista Covista is America's largest healthcare educator, serving more than 97,000 students and supported by a community of 385,000 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.

As part of our Corporate Affairs team, we’re looking for a Director, Internal Communications and Employee Engagement who is equal parts strategist, change leader and builder. In this role, you’ll help shape how our 10,000 colleagues experience organizational change, connect to our purpose, vision, values and strategy, and engage with our culture.

You’ll also play a key role in strengthening our employer brand by partnering closely with HR, Brand and executive leaders to bring our employee value proposition to life.

You’ll serve as a strategic communications partner to HR while also supporting other functions across the enterprise on an as-needed basis. Working across Corporate Affairs and with leaders throughout the organization, you’ll develop communication and change strategies that build trust, drive understanding and inspire action.

Reporting to the Senior Director of Strategy and Internal Communications, the preferred location for this role is our Chicago office. We will also consider candidates based in our Washington, D.C., Columbia, Md., Minneapolis, Minn., or Lisle, Ill., offices. This is a hybrid role, with an expectation to work in the office Monday through Thursday.

If you thrive in a fast-paced environment where your ideas and communications influence culture and business outcomes, we’d love to meet you.

• Develop and execute internal communications and change management strategies:
  Translate complex organizational changes into clear, colleague-centered communication and engagement plans that drive understanding, adoption and trust. Establish frameworks and best practices that ensure communications are proactive, transparent and consistent throughout periods of change.
• Lead and evolve our HR communications strategy:
  Partner with HR leaders to shape best-in-class communication strategies, tactics and materials covering everything from showcasing our talent strategy in action to informing colleagues about performance management, Total Rewards and large-scale people initiatives. Help the HR organization connect the dots across the function and organization, challenge conventional approaches and help drive communications that are clear, engaging and actionable. Manage and coach the Manager of HR Communications to deliver day-to-day communications with a consistently high bar for quality and impact.
• Build and execute a…