Director, Enterprise External Communications

Nemours is seeking an Enterprise External Communications Director

The Director, External Communications, serves as a trusted strategic advisor to executive and senior leadership across the organization.

Reporting to the Vice President, Reputation and Communications, this director drives the national reputational strategy for Nemours Children's Health while partnering with regional and enterprise leaders to advance regional reputation and patient growth strategies through external communications.

The role leads Nemours Children's earned media, external communications, and integrated campaign strategies to strengthen national visibility, support regional market priorities, and ensure the organization shows up with a clear, credible, and differentiated voice across external channels.

Essential Functions

National Reputation and Market Positioning: Shape, drive, and own a national reputation strategy
for Nemours Children's Health in ways that build trust, strengthen credibility, and support regional
reputation and patient growth.

Collaboratively define the organization's core external narrative and align
communications efforts to position Nemours as the leading voice in children's health and destination for
pediatric care.

Lead external positioning for executive, clinical service line, research innovation, and
population health priorities across channels as identified.

Help shape awards and recognition strategies
that advance institutional visibility and influence.

Identify emerging reputation opportunities and risks,
and provide strategic counsel to the VP, Reputation and Communications, and other leaders on
response strategies.

Earned Media/Media Relations: Lead a proactive, story-forward media relations strategy that
positions Nemours as an authoritative and sought-after source for national, regional, and specialty
media on topics that matter in children's health.

Build Nemours Children's presence with health,
science, policy, and general assignment journalists at nationally influential outlets while ensuring our
geographic footprint is also represented with excellence.

Build and maintain an expanding network of
journalist, editor, and producer relationships that give Nemours access and credibility when it matters
most.

Lead the team in developing pitches, press materials, media briefings, and expert source
programs with the quality, specificity, and news judgment that helps to create news and earns high
quality national and regional coverage.

Collaboratively lead content strategy and execution of high visibility announcements.

External Content Strategy: Partner with others to develop integrated strategy, content architecture,
and editorial direction of externally facing owned media, including the institutional newsroom, Well
Beyond Medicine Podcast, and other digital content platforms through which Nemours speaks to public audiences without a media intermediary.

Ensure that earned media is integrated deliberately with owned channels ...