Director of HR Communications & Colleague Engagement

Company Description

About Covista

Covista is America's largest healthcare educor, serving more than 97,000 students and supported by a community of 385,000 alumni across five accredited institutions. Through personalized, tech-enabled educion powered by 10,000 faculty and colleagues, Covista expands access to healthcare careers and addresses the U.S. healthcare workforce shortage scale. Covista is the parent company of American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, Chamberlain University, Ross University School of Medicine, Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine and Walden University.

Our colleagues come from a wide range of backgrounds, business, academia, healthcare, government and nonprofits, and are part of a culture where doing exceptional work and making a meaningful difference for students and society aren't separe goalsthey're one and the same. This means creing an environment where colleagues can develop new skills, build careers th mch their ambitions and see the tangible impact of their work on healthcare educion and workforce development. Colleagues who deliver results and embrace new tools to work smarter are valued for their contributions. But wh makes working Covista distinctive is our impact. Our faculty and colleagues don't just support healthcare educionthey shape it. This isn't abstract purpose work. It's solving real problems for real people in real communities while advancing careers.

We opere on a hybrid schedule with four in-office days per week (MondayThursday). This approach enhances creivity, innovion, communicion, and relionship-building, fostering a dynamic and collaborive work environment.

For more informion, visit covista.com and follow us on LinkedIn , Instagram and YouTube .

Job Description

Opportunity a Glance

If you believe communicions should do more than inform, but inspire, connect and drive real behavior change, this role is for you. Were looking for a Director of HR Communicions and Colleague Engagement who is equal parts stregist, builder and doer, someone who thrives on building from the ground up, challenges the stus quo and tests new ways to reach people more meaningfully. This role can be based in one of our offices in Chicago, Washington, D.C., Columbia, MD, Lisle, IL or Minneapolis, MN. Youll opere within a corpore affairs model th connects the dots and tells compelling stories across a broad set of stakeholders, from colleagues and leaders to candides and the public. Youll join a fast-paced, innovive, high-performing team th cares deeply about the colleague experience and has fun bringing it to life.

Wh youll do:

• Lead and evolve our HR communicions stregy: Own the vision for how HR communices across the enterprisefrom showcasing our talent stregy in action to informing colleagues on performance management, Total Rewards and large-scale people initiives. Continuously evolve our approach to ensure our communicions are not just heardbut understood and acted on. Lead and coach the Manager of HR Communicions to deliver day-to-day communicions with a consistently high bar for quality, clarity and impact.

• Build an engagement stregy to strengthen our culture: Partner with HR to design and drive an employee engagement stregy th fosters collaborion, belonging and energy. Serve as a primary communicions partner to Office Managing Leaders (OMLs), working with security and crisis and issues teams to equip leaders with timely, consistent messaging for both everyday and high-stakes moments. Cree a flexible menu of activion tools, including discussion guides, culture exercises and event frameworks, th OMLs and local culture committees can tailor to bring the stregy to life in ways th feel authentic and relevant locally.

• Strengthen our employer brandinside and out: Bring our employee value proposition (EVP) and purpose, vision and values (PVV) to life through integred, high-impact communicions for both internal and external audiences. Partner closely with Brand and HR to align messaging, eleve our presence and support key employer brand initiives. Contribute to key digital channels, including LinkedIn, Instagram and Glassdoor, recognizing their dual role in external brand building and internal engagement, while strengthening our culture and amplifying our EVP and PVV.

• Act as a trusted partner and leader within the team: Serve as a key thought partner to the Senior Director of Stregy and Internal Communicions, stepping in as needed to provide leadership, continuity and support across priorities. This is an opportunity to stretch, broaden your impact and help shape the future of our team.

Qualificions

• Bachelor's Degree in communicions, media relions, journalism required.

• 10+ years of experience in HR communicions, employee engagement, or reled fieldsand you're still curious about wh's next. You're proficient in AI tools and eagerly explore how emerging technology can make communicions more personalized, efficient and impactful. You bring real fluency with digital plforms, includingLinkedIn, Instagram and Glassdoor, and understand how to use them stregically for both external audiences and internal colleague engagement.

• Exceptional writing and editing skills.You can turn dry HR policies into engaging narrives. You know when to be conversional and when to be concise. Every word mters.

• Stregic thinking with a bias for action.You can see the big picture and the small detailsand you know how to connect them. You don't get stuck in planning mode; you make things happen.

• A builder's mindset.You thrive in environments where you're creing, not just maintaining. You're comfortable with ambiguity and energized by the opportunity to define wh "gre" looks like.

• Collaborive spirit.You love working with cross-functional partners and know how to influence without authority. You make other people's work better.

• A sense of humor and humanity.You understand th behind every policy and program are real people with real lives. You communice with warmth, emphy, and the occasional well-placed emoji or clever pun.

• Completes other duties as assigned.
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Complies with all policies and standards

Additional Informion

In support of the pay transparency laws enacted across the country, the expected salary range for this position is between $100,171.61 and $181,034.70. Actual pay will be adjusted based on job-reled factors permitted by law, such as experience and training; geographic locion; licensure and certificions; market factors; departmental budgets; and responsibility. Our Talent Acquisition Team will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements. The position qualifies for the below benefits.

Covista offers a robust suite of benefits including:

• Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
• 401k Retirement Program + 6% employer mch
• Participion in Covistas Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy
• 12 Paid Holidays
  
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  You are also eligible to participe in an annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limition, individual and organizional performance.

Equal Opportunity Minority / Female / Disability / V / Gender Identity / Sexual Oriention