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Marketing Specialist

S1677P

Department of Marketing and Communications

Monday – Friday, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Regular

40

12

The Marketing Specialist is responsible for supporting, coordinating, and delivering marketing and communications projects to campus partners on behalf of the Gonzaga Marketing and Communications (MarCom) department. The Marketing Specialist supports the Senior Director and Assistant Director of Marketing and works directly with in-house partners and MarCom teams including graphic design, website, storytelling/content/social media, visual media (photographer and videographer), as well as outside vendors to help develop integrated marketing campaigns, coordinate project teams, create project plans, execute on those plans, and write and edit content for web, social media, print, and video projects. This position supervises several student positions. This position reports to the Senior Director of Marketing.

Marketing Project Management and Partner Relationships

60%

• Assist partners, alongside the Senior Director and Assistant Director of Marketing, with the development of creative, integrated, and strategic marketing campaigns and initiatives that meet marketing objectives.
• Assist partners in establishing marketing budgets.
• Set, maintain, and communicate project schedules and deadlines to partners and all necessary stakeholders.
• Ensure all project work meets quality standards as defined by MarCom and the partner.
• Work with printers and other vendors as necessary to effectively complete projects.
• Communicate issues and risks to the project with partners and stakeholders as necessary.
• Communicate partner objectives and represent partner interests to the MarCom project team, and vice versa.
• Follow MarCom department workflow process to ensure quality and efficiency of projects.
• Work with the Senior Director and Assistant Director of Marketing to prioritize projects and balance workload among MarCom resources.
• Serve as a primary and secondary point of contact with partners.
• Build strong relationships with partners, stakeholders, and MarCom team members.
• Encourage open communication about projects among partners, stakeholders, and MarCom team members.
• Facilitate partner conflict resolution and escalate issues to the Senior Director or Assistant Director of Marketing as necessary.

Content Development, Writing, and Editing

15%

• Write and edit copy for print and electronic media including ads, newsletters, web pages, social media, emails, and video scripts.
• Interview subjects as necessary to complete writing assignments.
• Perform other content development, writing, and editing duties as assigned.

Traffic and Resource Management

25%

• Serve as a traffic coordinator for the department by assisting the Senior Director and Assistant Director of Marketing with intake of new projects, as well as actively monitoring the capacities of project managers and the production team in order to make project assignments.
• Assist in maintaining projects in MarCom’s project management software system (Wrike), ensuring they are up-to-date and appropriately detailed.
• Assist in maintaining accurate project schedules to ensure projects are delivered on-time, on-brand and exceeding partner expectations.
• Assist in overseeing the flow of projects through the department, from intake to successful delivery.
• Lead daily marketing team check-ins.
• Assist with web projects and updates to web pages as needed.
• Help coordinate video production scheduling/locations/talent and provide on-set assistance in support of the MarCom videographer.
• Steward the Gonzaga University brand and ensure that all projects adhere to communications and branding standards.
• Look for and provide suggestions on ways to improve MarCom workflow processes and tools.
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Promoting Excellence in Academic Endeavors and Professional Practice

• Fostering intellectual depth, competence, reflection, and creativity in pursuing exemplary, rather than satisfactory, outcomes

Sharing Responsibility for Mission Identity and Leadership

• Making a personal commitment to learn about Gonzaga’s mission, discovering ways to contribute individually and collaboratively to our distinctive learning and research community

Affirming a Commitment to Human Dignity

• Engaging one another with profound respect, professionalism, and cura personalis while supporting one another’s continued learning, development, and maximizing of potential

Advancing a Culture of Inclusiveness

• Developing cultural fluencies and global awarenesses, and practicing habits that enable us to value, recruit, and support community members from historically underrepresented backgrounds

Caring for Our Common Home and Integral Ecology

• Growing ecological awareness of and respect for the interconnectedness of human and non-human life, and the need to develop and practice habits that are mutually beneficial to all life

Cultivating Individual and Community Accountability

• Demonstrating mutual commitment to our shared project by holding ourselves and others responsible for actions, expecting appropriate behavior, and aligning activities with ethical and professional standards

Bachelor's Degree

N/A

Specialist Knowledge in field

1-2.99 years

• Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, public relations, communications or related field.
• A minimum of 1 year of experience in marketing and communications role(s) that includes project management, marketing strategy and implementation, and content writing and editing.
• Ability to apply defined objectives in marketing strategy, advertising, media and brand management to client projects.
• Experience managing projects that involve all forms of media ranging from print, to broadcast/video, to web communications and interactive media.
• Project management experience with demonstrated successful results, particularly in the areas of managing timelines and working with partners.
• Proven ability to juggle multiple projects and manage project teams and clients with competing demands/priorities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with experience in copywriting for marketing campaigns/projects.
• Demonstrated ability to manage the production of high-quality marketing materials for print, interactive/web, video, and social media.
• Demonstrated understanding of marketing analytics and ability to apply them to projects.
• Professionalism, maturity, and judgment in all partner interactions.
• Strong partner presentation skills.
• Strong work ethic and excellent time management skills.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications (i.e., Word, Excel and PowerPoint).

• Experience at a marketing, advertising and/or PR agency in a project, account and/or traffic management role.
• Experience working in higher education.
• Experience working with print vendors and knowledge of print production processes.
• Experience managing web projects and familiarity with web technologies.
• Experience managing email marketing projects, including working with email marketing and/or CRM software to create and send email marketing campaigns.
• Experience with Social Media marketing and communications.

• Remain in stationary position 70% of the time
• Bend, stoop, kneel, stretch and reach
• Wrist and hand movements related to computer work
• Ability to be mobile campus wide for appropriate business needs

02/23/2022

Yes

03/21/2022

Gonzaga University is a Jesuit, Catholic, humanistic institution, and is therefore interested in candidates who will contribute to its distinctive mission. Gonzaga University is a committed EEO/AA employer and diversity candidates are encouraged to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their disability status and/or protected veteran status.

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