Role Overview:The Communications Specialist will craft clear, compelling, and visually engaging communications for IT leadership and Board of Directors audiences, especially CFO-level stakeholders. This role involves translating complex technology, risk, and investment narratives into concise executive presentations, pre-reads, and talking points, supporting executive meetings and events with high standards of professionalism, branding alignment, and message clarity.
Key Responsibilities:- Executive & Board Presentation Development: Develop CFO-ready narratives and presentation decks that communicate strategy, investment cases, operating metrics, risk/compliance posture, and business outcomes for senior executive and Board audiences. Create "summary-first" storylines with tight executive structure and optional backup detail. Partner with content owners (IT leaders, program managers, risk/compliance leads) to extract key insights, sharpen asks, and align messages to executive expectations.
- Content Strategy, Storytelling & Message Clarity: Translate technical material into executive language by identifying the target audience, their priorities, and appropriate detail levels, then shaping engaging narratives. Create outlines and content flow that reflect previous presentations, changes, and required decisions or updates.
- Visual Communication & Executive Standards: Produce polished, on-brand slides with clean layouts, effective data visualization, and crisp executive wording, meeting senior-level expectations for clarity and readability. Ensure decks are "presenter-driven" and easy to navigate in live executive forums.
- Executive Communications Operations: Support executive meetings/events with end-to-end communications coordination, including pre-reads, deck readiness, version control, and archival/standalone deck packaging. Maintain a structured repository of executive communications assets (templates, standard story arcs, reusable visuals) and continuously improve quality and consistency.
- Core Deliverables: Include Board/ELT/CIO Staff presentations (strategy updates, quarterly reviews, risk and audit updates, investment proposals), executive pre-read packs, leadership talking points, standardized templates, and presentation storyboards/outlines.
Required Skills:- Demonstrated ability to create executive-ready PowerPoint presentations and written narratives for CFO/Board-level audiences.
- Strong ability to translate complex content into clear executive communications (message discipline, brevity, structure).
- Proven stakeholder management: ability to interview busy SMEs, distill content quickly, and drive to high-quality deliverables under tight timelines.
- Executive storytelling & synthesis: creates compelling "so what / now what" narratives and decision framing.
- Visual communication: strong slide design, layout, and data visualization for senior readability.
- Audience-first communication: tailors content based on who is being communicated to and their level.
- Operational excellence: proficient in version control, deadlines, and quality gates for exec-ready materials.
- Collaboration & facilitation: pulls clarity from diverse stakeholders and aligns messages.
- Advanced proficiency with Microsoft PowerPoint, and familiarity with Excel (charts), Word (briefs), Teams/SharePoint (collaboration & asset management).
- Familiarity with Adobe Creative Cloud.
Qualifications:- 5+ years in executive communications, corporate communications, management consulting communications, or a presentation-specialist role supporting senior leaders.
Preferred Skills:- Experience supporting technology strategy, enterprise risk/compliance, audit, or large-scale transformation communications.
- Familiarity with executive meeting operating rhythms and producing pre-reads for leadership forums.
