Serves as chief spokesperson, leads the university through reputational and operational issues and crises, provides strategic counsel to the Chancellor and senior academic and clinical leadership, and manages a cross-functional team of communicators to ensure one coherent institutional voice across a matrixed organization of schools, research institutes, and the academic medical center. Owns thought leadership as a core, dedicated area of responsibility: build and lead a program that establishes the Chancellor, medical center leadership, faculty, and physician-scientists as authoritative voices on issues central to the institution's academic, research, and clinical missions.