Vice President, Strategic Communications

EducationDynamics; Deutschland; Vor Ort; EUR 120.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

401K Plan

Remote work or flexible schedules

Unlimited PTO

Training and growth opportunities

Tuition reimbursements

Zusammenfassung

EducationDynamics is seeking a senior strategist to lead strategic communications for high-level university clients. This remote VP will advise C-suite leaders, shape crisis responses, and guide institutional reputation in the evolving AI landscape.

The role requires deep expertise in higher education communications, enrollment messaging, and consultative selling, with the ability to manage complex, relationship-driven portfolios across multiple institutions.

Qualifikationen

• 10+ years in higher education communications or equivalent.
• Experience advising C-suite leaders in higher education.
• Strong track record in crisis communications and reputation management.
• Experience with enrollment marketing or career-focused communications.

Aufgaben

• Engage with presidents, provosts, CMOs, and enrollment leaders to assess needs and position EducationDynamics as a critical partner.
• Lead crisis communications frameworks and executive advisory discussions with clients.
• Counsel clients on AI-influenced visibility and responsible use of AI in communications.
• Drive research, messaging, and diagnosis using AI to sharpen client strategies.
• Translate complex challenges into actionable scopes of work for institutional clients.
• Collaborate with marketing, enrollment management, research, and consulting teams to deliver integrated solutions.
• Represent EducationDynamics at conferences, executive roundtables, and client meetings with senior leadership.
• Maintain a visible presence in the higher education market to attract inbound interest.

Kenntnisse

C-suite advisory

Crisis communications

Executive messaging

Institutional reputation

AI in communications

Strategic consulting

Relationship management

Public speaking

Tools

Salesforce

Jobbeschreibung

Vice President, Strategic Communications

Fully Remote Remote Worker

Description

Job Title: Vice President, Strategic Communications

Department: Reputation Services

Location: Remote

Reports to: Head of Strategic Communications

Who You Are

You are a senior communications strategist who has advised C-suite leaders through complexity: reputational crises, institutional pivots, enrollment emergencies, and market disruptions. You know how to walk into a room with a university president or provost and earn credibility in the first five minutes, because you have lived the work they are navigating.

As Vice President, Strategic Communications, you will serve as a trusted advisor and consultant to higher education institutions seeking strategic counsel. Your deep fluency in crisis communications, executive messaging, institutional reputation management, and the growing role of AI in shaping how institutions are seen will be the differentiator that opens doors and earns lasting partnerships.

You will be a part of a consultative practice built on expertise, relationships, and the ability to diagnose what an institution actually needs before they know how to ask for it.

Here are the abilities that we seek out

• Engage directly with presidents, provosts, CMOs, and enrollment leaders to identify strategic communications needs and position EducationDynamics as a mission-critical partner.
• Bring demonstrated crisis communications experience to client conversations, offering frameworks and perspective that reflect firsthand institutional knowledge.
• Understand how earned media and reputation work now shape AI visibility — how tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI Overviews describe an institution — and counsel clients on strengthening that presence.
• Leverage AI as a strategic tool in your own practice, using it to sharpen research, messaging, and the diagnosis of complex client challenges.
• Cultivate a portfolio of institutional partnerships with a solutions-oriented approach grounded in real communications practice.
• Translate complex client challenges, including reputational risk, enrollment decline, brand confusion, and leadership transitions, into actionable scopes of work.
• Collaborate with internal teams across marketing, enrollment management, research, and consulting to architect client solutions that are integrated and achievable.
• Represent EducationDynamics at conferences, executive roundtables, and in one-on-one advisory settings with senior institutional leadership.
• Maintain a visible, credible presence in the higher education communications market, with a professional profile that generates inbound interest and referrals.

Who We Are

EducationDynamics

EducationDynamics is the transformative strategic partner that helps schools meet the challenges and opportunities of serving the Modern Learner. Our mission is to expand opportunity through education by helping colleges and universities understand, engage and serve all students. With services that include marketing, enrollment management, market research, inquiry generation, consulting and student retention, we have dedicated the last 35 years to helping schools prosper as the largest provider of unbundled enrollment growth services.

Requirements

What You Offer

Experience

• 10 or more years of experience in higher education communications, with a track record that includes crisis communications, executive advisory work, or institutional reputation management.
• Demonstrated experience working at or alongside C-suite leaders in higher education, with the standing and fluency to operate at that level as a peer and advisor.
• Solid understanding of how enrollment marketing and student communications have evolved over the past decade, particularly in the career-focused sector.
• A professional reputation in the higher education market that gives you real access to institutional decision makers.
• Experience in consultative or solution-based selling, ideally of communications, marketing, or enrollment services.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present to individuals, executive teams, and conference audiences.
• Familiarity with Salesforce or a comparable CRM platform.
• Ability to work independently and manage a complex, relationship-driven book of business.

What We Offer

Our Core Values

Working Together

We value the people we work with and genuinely enjoy the work we do together.

Working with Standards

We hold ourselves to high standards.

Driving Great Outcomes

We focus on achieving results and making a real impact.

Our Commitment to Advancement

At EDDY, we value learning and aim to provide a space for everyone to grow and share their knowledge by giving tuition reimbursements for expenses incurred through accepted universities. With this approach taken, we also recognize the hard work of our team members and promote them when these accomplishments present themselves.

Other advantages to working at EDDY include:

• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• 401K Plan
• Remote work or flexible schedules
• Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Training and growth opportunities

Physical Factors

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Physical demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; balance; stoop; talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Work environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to weather conditions prevalent at the time. The noise level in the work environment is usually minimal.