K. Hovnanian is celebrating 60 years of quality and leadership in the home building and community development industry. Do you want to play a large role in those everyday decisions that help build dream homes? It’s the homes where people will raise their child, form their most important memories, plot the course for their future, spend quality time with their grandchildren or enjoy quiet times reflecting on a life full of accomplishments. Over 300,000 families have put their dreams in our hands, and you can as well.

We are looking for an innovative and open-minded team member excited about fundamentally transforming the nature in which we offer people the opportunity of home ownership. While the Real Estate sector is the largest sector in the US economy at nearly $2 trillion annually, it has seen the least amount of innovation. Most homebuilders continue to employ antiquated practices and norms that fail to provide customers with that right mix of value, design, and certainty that makes a house a home. 

This new role will be responsible for the development and execution of communications plans that articulate the vision of our transformation strategy and build engagement and enthusiasm. Reporting into the Change Management Lead, this role will operate within our Corporate Innovation Team. You will partner with the Change Management Lead to work with senior leaders across the organization to facilitate collaboration and communication throughout the business while working closely with your Corporate Innovation team to ensure alignment to strategic goals.  You have a passion for articulating a vision, developing the message, and building content that gets employees engaged and excited. You enjoy being part of large scale transformational changes and want to help see them executed effectively.

Responsibilities and Expectations

Work with the Change Management Lead to develop and execute the Internal Communications strategy for our company wide Transformation. Design communication plans and develop messaging (terminology, tone, style) that promotes the wins, contextualizes lessons learned, and ensures regular, consistent communication across all levels and departments.
Own execution of the Communications Plan and deliver to timelines.
Coordinate the design, implementation, and messaging of new tools and platforms.
Facilitate and produce company-wide communications and events in collaboration with executive leadership that promote clarity, engagement, and transparency related to the National Strategy.
Draft and edit a variety of communication materials and products, including but not limited to talking points, leadership communications, newsletter content, website content, and other communications products.
Connect the dots between and across departments and divisions using best practices, formal approaches, storytelling, and relationship building.
Support & resource internal change champions to facilitate dialog and conversations that promote stakeholder engagement.
Explore and implement enhanced measurement methodologies for different channels and content formats to track and optimize internal communication company-wide and to different audiences.
Create, support, and uphold group norms and an uncompromising commitment to psychological safety.

Minimum Qualifications Requirement

A minimum of 4 years of experience in communications, marketing, change management, or organizational development.
Superpower ability to communicate clearly and persuasively in written, spoken, and visual formats.
Confidence, fluency, and skill in researching, selecting, and deploying the latest communications tools and techniques.
Experience driving collaboration with remote teams.
Understanding of the communications plan processes including audience, messaging, tools/tactics, and measurement.
Experience in building relationships and connecting dots across multiple functions, departments, and levels.
Ability to distill complex issues or ideas into simple, honest and concise communication; avoiding jargon and matching language to the needs of the audience.
Experience with tools to include: the MS Office suite, MS Teams and SharePoint.
Ability to create and hold space for active listening, trust, open discussion, and psychological safety.

Preferred Skills And Qualifications

Experience working in Organizational Change Management and / or helping to drive significant company-wide transformation.
Ability to quickly learn new tools such as Axios HQ, Miro and Asana.
Industry experience in real estate development, home building or construction helpful but not required.

K. Hovnanian Companies, LLC, a subsidiary of Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc., a well-respected publicly traded company, is committed to providing an environment and programs that help our associates flourish. You can look forward to professional support, an annual salary of $100,000 - $130,000 plus bonus potential and extensive benefits—including medical/dental/vision coverage, discounts on mortgages and home appliances, and a 401(k) plan. To learn more about us, visit www.khov.com/careers.

Search Firms Please Read Carefully

K. Hovnanian Companies, LLC is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. Please, no phone calls or emails. All resumes submitted by search firms to any associate at K. Hovnanian via email, the Internet or in any form and/or method without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of K. Hovnanian. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by K. Hovnanian as a result of the referral or through other means.

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