Associate Vice President, External Communications

Location: Boston, MA; hybrid work with 2–3 days onsite per week. On-call availability and some evening and weekend work are required.

Salary: $221,400–$249,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global advances cancer research, patient care, education, and public health through its clinical and research missions.

What you will do

• Lead enterprise issues management, crisis communications, and reputation protection strategies.
• Develop and execute integrated media relations strategies supporting clinical, research, educational, and philanthropic priorities.
• Advise executive leaders, faculty, clinicians, and researchers on reputational risk, media engagement, executive visibility, storytelling, and interview preparation.
• Direct proactive media outreach, story development, pitching, press events, and strategic communications campaigns.
• Build relationships with journalists, editors, producers, media influencers, and other external stakeholders while monitoring the media landscape.
• Establish performance measures, report on media impact, and hire, coach, and manage the external communications team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, Marketing, English, or a related field.
• 12+ years of progressively responsible leadership experience in media relations, public affairs, strategic communications, or corporate communications.
• Substantial experience leading issues management, crisis communications, and reputation management in complex organizations.
• Demonstrated success developing enterprise media strategies and advising executive leaders, physicians, researchers, and subject matter experts.
• Outstanding written, verbal, presentation, analytical, management, and leadership skills.
• Ability to work in a hybrid arrangement with 2–3 onsite days per week in Boston, plus on-call evening and weekend availability.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree.
• Experience in healthcare, academic medicine, higher education, research institutions, government, or agencies.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive, diverse, equitable, and caring workplace environment.
• Work supporting cancer research, patient care, education, and public health.
• Opportunity to collaborate with Harvard Medical School-affiliated hospitals and other institutional partners.
• Equal opportunity employment environment.