Vice President, Communication & PR

About the Role Nightingale College is looking for a Vice President, Communications & PR to join our executive leadership team and lead the strategy behind how we tell our story — to the public, to our own community, and to the learners and alumni whose lives we're helping change. Reporting to the Chief Growth Officer, you'll hold executive-level accountability for our Communications division, which spans three distinct audiences: PR & External Publications, Corporate Communications, and Learner & Alumni Communications. As Nightingale scales toward 20,000 learners by 2028, this role owns the communications infrastructure that will carry us there. You'll set the vision, empower three directors to lead their respective audiences with real ownership, and make sure everything we say — externally and internally — is cohesive, purposeful, and unmistakably Nightingale. What You'll Do Enterprise Communications Strategy Architect a cohesive enterprise communications strategy across all three audience functions, while preserving what makes each one distinct Ensure all communications across the organization advance Nightingale's Purpose and align to the Core 7 framework Serve as the senior communications voice on the executive leadership team, representing the division in strategic planning and to external stakeholders PR & External Publications Guide the Director of PR & External Publications in building brand awareness and positive sentiment among the public, nurse leaders, and state boards of nursing Ensure Nightingale's distance learning model and commitment to non-traditional learners is represented accurately and compellingly in every state and region we operate Provide strategic oversight on media relations, earned media, and crisis communications Serve as a regulatory communications steward, ensuring external communications account for accreditation and governing body implications Corporate Communications Guide the Director of Corporate Communications in building a syst