Director, Executive Communications

Company Description

About Covista

Covista (NYSE: CVSA) is America's largest healthcare educator, serving 100,000 students and supported by a community of 400,000 alumni across five accredited institutions. Through personalized, tech-enabled education powered by 10,000 faculty and colleagues, Covista expands access to healthcare careers and addresses the U.S. healthcare workforce shortage at 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 separate goals—they're one and the same. This means creating an environment where colleagues can develop new skills, build careers that match their ambitions and see the tangible impact of their work on healthcare education and workforce development. Colleagues who deliver results and embrace new tools to work smarter are valued for their contributions. But what makes working at Covista distinctive is our impact. Our faculty and colleagues don't just support healthcare education—they shape it. This isn't abstract purpose work. It's solving real problems for real people in real communities while advancing careers.

We operate on a hybrid schedule with four in-office days per week (Monday–Thursday). This approach enhances creativity, innovation, communication, and relationship-building, fostering a dynamic and collaborative work environment.

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

Job Description

This is a fast-paced and exciting role where you will help shape how the leader of America’s largest healthcare educator shows up, both inside the company and beyond it, at a moment when our story is growing in relevance and scope. As part of his communications team, you’ll be a strategic partner to a CEO who has a voice that’s unmistakably his own. You'll help decide where, when and how to use that voice to move the business forward. 

You’ll bring business savvy and a fresh pulse on what’s moving across content, the media landscape and culture, including healthcare and education, to sharpen ideas, spot the right moments and match each message to the channel, audience and stage where it will have the most impact. You’ll be part counselor, part editor and part strategist. 

The work is high-visibility and high-trust. You’ll partner closely with the executive office and senior leadership. You’ll also work across Corporate Affairs (Investor Relations, Government and Public Affairs, Alumni Engagement and Social Impact) and with our institutions so that every appearance, post and message builds a clear, credible leadership presence that carries our purpose further.

Responsibilities:

CEO Voice and Platform Strategy 

• Help build and steward the CEO’s communications platform, including core narratives, signature themes and proof points that line up with Covista’s business strategy and reputation goals 

• Elevate his authority by spotting the ideas, data and moments where Covista can shape the national conversation on healthcare and education, and finding the formats that carry them furthest 

• Stay at the leading edge of how executives break through: track what’s working across media, platforms and formats and bring the ideas worth trying 

• Be a trusted editorial partner: a second set of eyes and a collaborator, keeping Covista’s narrative consistent across every format and audience 

• Offer counsel on which moments to lead, which to amplify and which to skip, based on business priorities, news cycles and audience insight \

Channels, Events and Moments 

• Help plan the CEO’s external