Director of Strategic Communications and Outreach

Employment Director of Strategic Communications and Outreach Overview The Tobin Center for Economic Policy at Yale University works to strengthen families, communities, and the nation. We enable research on key challenges facing society and bring the resulting insights to the policy arena for impact. We do this by building purpose-driven partnerships across government, engaging with the media, and training a more diverse and inclusive generation of social scientists and policy leaders. Our work has been credited with making significant contributions to United States law and policy across health, climate, education, and economic opportunity. The Tobin Center is seeking a Director of Strategic Communications and Outreach to amplify our impact. This individual will build the Tobin Center’s brand, establish an institutional tone and standard for public engagement, help attract new partners as philanthropic supporters, and demonstrate how Tobin’s commitment to rigorous research can move the needle for society. We are looking for candidates with experience turning research insights into compelling content that motivates real-world action. The most competitive candidates will have experience creating, leading, and overseeing inspiring communications content, and a track-record of deploying innovative strategies for engaging key audiences. The Director must also understand economic and social policy issues and possess the unique ability to communicate complex research for non-academic audiences. Build and lead an integrated communications program, combining online engagement, media relations, digital engagement, events, and outreach with government, nonprofit, business, private philanthropy, and other stakeholders to maximize the influence and impact of Tobin and our faculty’s work. Create and implement a communications and engagement strategy to share our work with key audiences that includes concrete goals and clear metrics for evaluating progress. Design new and pivotal ways • beyond traditional approaches • to make our work understandable and relevant, including generating core messages and language, developing timely content and analysis, and creating opportunities for engagement. Build and maintain networks and relationships with faculty, media, government, private philanthropy, and partner organizations to inform our communications and outreach strategies and create opportunities. Lead the coordination and execution of events and convenings, including managing team members who are supporting the event, on-site preparations, related communications plans, and general coordination of logistics. Develop content style guidelines for communications activities. Provide coaching and training on media engagement, public speaking, and presentations to staff and faculty. Learn more and apply here. More info about Director of Strategic Communications and Outreach Posted Date 06-22-26 Application Link Apply Here Duration Full-time