Chief Communications and Marketing Officer

Chief Communications and Marketing Officer

The Chief Communications and Marketing Officer (CCMO) is senior leader responsible for developing, leading, and continuously advancing a comprehensive and integrated communications and marketing strategy for Adler University as it continues through a critical period of institutional transformation. This role calls for an innovative/visionary, hands‑on strategist and go‑getter who can assess,build and manage. This role leads with clarity to complexity, solves problems in real time, and designs new ways to position the institution competitively.

Reporting directly to the President, the CCMO serves as the University’s most senior communications leader — enhancing institutional reputation, shaping public narratives, and ensuring that every dimension of Adler’s communications presence reflects and advances its mission, strategic priorities, and values. They will have a mandate to build and strengthen the University’s communications and marketing apparatus with a commitment to innovation and excellence, advancing the School’s newly established mission, vision, values, and rebranding.

This is a role of strategic consequence and institutional leadership. The CCMO navigates a complex, multi‑stakeholder environment to align the needs and priorities of academic and administrative leaders, the Board of Trustees, faculty, students, external partners, media, and the broader public into a single, coherent institutional strategy. The CCMO has a deep understanding of the media landscape, the evolving role of communications technology and how new centers of social influence drive decision making.

• Develop, own, and continuously advance a comprehensive communications strategy that unifies institutional priorities, institutional planning, enrollment, advancement, academic excellence, and community engagement into a coherent narrative framework.
• Serve as the central integrating voice for University communications, translating the priorities of diverse stakeholders into a unified institutional strategy and consistent brand voice across all channels, geographies, and audiences.
• Play an active role in the University’s strategic planning processes, ensuring communications goals and resources are embedded from the outset, not a tactical after thought
• Establish the institutional messaging architecture — core narratives, brand voice, and audience‑segmented key messages — that anchors all University communications.
• Build and systematize the infrastructure, standards, and tools that make Adler’s communications consistent, scalable, and coherent across all geographical hubs, programs, and channels.
• Elevate and advance academic achievements, the voices of outstanding faculty experts, and University‑wide thought leadership to show Adlerian work in action and highly relevant public conversations.
• Serve as the senior steward of brand integrity, making final determinations on the use of the University’s name, identity, and narrative in high‑stakes or diverse contexts.
• Serve as a full member of the President’s executive team, contributing communications expertise to institutional decision‑making and serving as a strategic thought partner to fellow cabinet members.
• Represent Adler University at national higher education associations, communications conferences, and policy forums, advancing the University’s external profile and contributing to the field as appropriate and with a clear ROI.

• Shape and amplify the Institution's public presence through thought leadership and executive visibility in deliberate service of Adler’s institutional mission, strategic priorities, and reputational goals.
• Develop and execute a multi‑year presidential communications strategy that advances the President’s visibility among national and international audiences as an expression of the University’s leadership and impact.
• Prepare and advise the President for high‑stakes engagements: major speeches, media interviews, accreditor and government interactions, donor presentations, and crisis moments.
• Serve as the primary…