Lead Executive Communications Partner

Children's Mercy KC • Kansas City, MO

6d • $38 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Lead Executive Communications Partner serves as the strategic communications lead and central coordination point for the CEO Cabinet, ensuring Cabinet priorities, perspectives, and enterprise initiatives are communicated with clarity, coherence, and influence.
This role functions as a strategic partner and connective hub, maintaining a big‑picture view across Cabinet initiatives while identifying risks, aligning narratives and proactively shaping communications. The Lead Partner operates effectively in ambiguity, balancing speed, judgment, and precision while guiding leaders through complex and often evolving situations.
Working in close partnership with the Corporate Communications Director and Chief of Staff, this role ensures CEO Cabinet messaging is aligned with organizational strategy, culture, and enterprise drivers, and that communications are planned, measured, and continuously refined for impact. The position also leads the strategy and execution of the CEO’s LinkedIn presence, expanding thought leadership, visibility, and engagement in alignment with enterprise priorities.
This is a senior individual contributor role with significant influence across the organization. A successful candidate will take an active leadership role across the organization to understand business objectives and build communications strategies and plans to support those objectives. Build strong, trust‑based relationships with Cabinet members, senior leaders, subject matter experts, and communications partners. As well as model professionalism, discretion, clarity, and confidence in all interactions.
At Children’s Mercy, we are committed to ensuring that everyone feels welcomed within our walls. A successful candidate for this position will join us as we strive to create a workplace that reflects the community we serve, as well as our core values of kindness, curiosity, inclusion, team and integrity.
Additionally, it’s important to us that we remain transparent with all potential job candidates. Because we value the safety of the patients and families we serve, as well as the Children’s Mercy staff, we want to let you know that the seasonal influenza vaccine is a condition of employment for all employees in our organization. New employees must be willing to be vaccinated if found non-immune to measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) and chicken pox (varicella) and/or without evidence of tetanus, diphtheria, acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccination since 2005. If you are selected for this position, you will be asked to supply your immunization records as proof of vaccination. If you and have any concerns about receiving these vaccines, medical and/or religious exemptions can be further discussed with Human Resources.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree communications, marketing, journalism, business, or related field and 7 or more years experience communications
• and 5-7 years experience working directly with senior leaders (CEO, VP, or executive adjacent roles)

Responsibilities

• Strategic Development, Proactive Planning and Risk Management
• Content Strategy, Message Development and Coordination
• Measurement, Innovation Continuous Improvement

Benefits

• The benefits plans at Children’s Mercy are one of many reasons we are recognized as one of the best places to work in Kansas City. Our plans are designed to meet the changing needs of our employees and their families.
• Learn more about Children’s Mercy benefits.

What This Job Offers

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