Associate Director, Communications, Center for Sustainable Business

New York University • New York, NY

1d • $75,000 - $95,000

About The Position

NYU’s Stern School of Business has an exciting opportunity available for an Associate Director, Communications at our Center for Sustainable Business (CSB) as it evolves its strategy and strengthens its role as a trusted navigator through rapidly changing times. The Center for Sustainable Business’s Associate Director of Communications bridges the gap between leading-edge research, experiential education, and practical impact. The Center aims to unleash the transformative potential of business to solve societal challenges at speed and scale. The Associate Director will develop and lead the execution of communications, content, and public events for CSB. The selected candidate will promote CSB thought leadership and programming on sustainable business to target audiences within and beyond the Stern community through content creation and strategic communications and marketing. They will develop and lead the execution of strategy for public events aligned with CSB’s strategic research and thought leadership activities, including an annual conference for a large corporate and investor audience, panel discussions, and workshops. The Associate Director will also oversee the production of internal and external materials and ensure that savvy digital communications efforts provide key audiences with up-to-date and accessible information about CSB programs, tools, and research. In addition, they will develop, track, evaluate, and report on metrics of success and adapt strategies to grow and improve outreach results over time.
This is a 2 year fixed-term position, with a start date ASAP.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• At least five years of relevant experience in communications, content creation, social media, public relations, marketing, events, or journalism.
• Exceptional storytelling ability across formats and channels, and an understanding of how to adapt messages and approaches for different platforms and audiences
• Proven ability to create content that performs—you've built audiences, driven engagement, and can point to content that actually changed behavior or sparked conversation

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in a related field such as communications, public relations, marketing, journalism, business, public administration, sustainability, or environmental studies
• Seven years of experience in communications, public relations, marketing, events, or journalism

Responsibilities

• Develop and lead the execution of communications, content, and public events for CSB.
• Promote CSB thought leadership and programming on sustainable business to target audiences within and beyond the Stern community through content creation and strategic communications and marketing.
• Develop and lead the execution of strategy for public events aligned with CSB’s strategic research and thought leadership activities, including an annual conference for a large corporate and investor audience, panel discussions, and workshops.
• Oversee the production of internal and external materials and ensure that savvy digital communications efforts provide key audiences with up-to-date and accessible information about CSB programs, tools, and research.
• Develop, track, evaluate, and report on metrics of success and adapt strategies to grow and improve outreach results over time.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director