Chief Communications and Marketing Officer

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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.