Senior Director for Communications

Position Summary

Columbia Global is the University's primary platform for global engagement, comprising Columbia World Projects, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, the Committee on Global Thought, the Center for Undergraduate Global Engagement, and a network of Global Centers across multiple international markets.

Columbia Global is in an active period of institutional and strategic development. With a new university president taking office in July 2026 and a strategic plan underway, this hire comes at a moment when communications leadership will directly shape how the organization engages the world.

Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, the Senior Director serves as a senior institutional strategist -- advising leadership, shaping organizational positioning, and building a communications function that is integrated into how Columbia Global plans and presents itself to the world. The role directly leads a team of three communications professional...