MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Education: Bachelor’s degree required; graduate degree or equivalent experience preferred.
• Experience: Minimum of 8+ years in corporate communications or agency, with experience in a leadership role.
• Skills:
• Extensive experience in issues management and stakeholder communications, with an emphasis on media relations and expert writing skills.
• Ability to meet deadlines under pressure, working with peers and senior management.
• Understanding of communications strategy, content development, and channel delivery.
• Ability to manage issues, projects, and campaigns with minimal supervision, with accountability for strategy, tactical execution, and outcomes.
• Strong analytical, negotiating, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to delegate when appropriate; perform timely performance reviews and provide informal feedback to teammates to ensure professional development.
• Ability to maintain confidence and professionalism when leading others through ambiguous and challenging situations.

ESSENTIAL BEHAVIORS, SKILLS, AND ATTITUDES

• Communication: Excellent writing, communications, and presentation skills required.
• Experience: Extensive experience with issues management, corporate communications, and media relations.
• Leadership: Proven track record partnering with C-level executives and other senior leaders on communications projects and business decision-making (references appreciated).
• Strategic Thinking: Ability to conceptualize and execute advanced, integrated reactive and proactive communications campaigns.
• Industry Knowledge: Knowledge of healthcare issues highly desirable.
• Values: Commitment to DaVita’s values of Service Excellence, Integrity, Team, Continuous Improvement, Accountability, Fulfillment, and Fun, with the ability to demonstrate these positively and proactively to patients, teammates, management, physicians, and/or vendors (Village Service Partners) in everyday performance and interactions.
  

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At DaVita, we strive to be a community first and a company second. We want all teammates to experience DaVita as “a place where I belong.” Our goal is to embed belonging into everything we do in our Village, so that it becomes part of who we are. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. As such, individuals are recruited, hired, assigned and promoted without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.
This position will be open for a minimum of three days.