Director of Communications & Marketing - Office of Admissions

Fort Collins, CO (Hybrid)

$100K/yr – $105K/yrDirector/Executive5+ years expFull time

Posted 4 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own CSU Admissions marketing and aligned communications strategy, leading a team to influence prospective students and counselors across campus channels.

  • Ownership: multi-channel enrollment marketing plan development and cross-partner campaigns.
  • Audience & Tools: identify target student/counselor audiences and drive measurement via analytics and CRM-led reporting.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop marketing and communication strategies to meet university undergraduate enrollment goals.
  • Lead the Admissions Marketing and Communications team and implement strategies.
  • Collaborate across admissions and campus partners on brand integration, campaign development, content coordination, and performance optimization.
  • Manage budget and project development and completion.
  • Strategically develop, lead, and implement the marketing and communication plans for the Office of Admissions with the goal of attracting, influencing, and informing prospective students, parents and families, high school and college counselors about CSU’s education and community.
  • Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, journalism, public relations, or a related field from an accredited institution.
  • Five years of progressively responsible communications and marketing experience including at least two years in a strategic leadership capacity.
  • Two years of experience in direct supervision of full-time professional staff.
  • Experience communicating and influencing a variety of internal and external constituents.
  • Demonstrated experience and solid understanding of technology and software applications such as Google Analytics, CRM systems, CMS, Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite, and reporting systems.
  • Demonstrated experience executing multimedia communication and marketing plans supported by measurement and analytics.

Preferred

  • A master's degree in a relevant area such as marketing, communications, journalism or public relations.
  • Experience with lead generation and conversion marketing strategies and evaluation.
  • Experience in enrollment management and/or admissions in a marketing and communications capacity.
  • Experience creating strategies for various channels such as social media, email, website, print, texting or lead generation.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, as demonstrated through experience writing for the web, publications, marketing campaigns, and/or professional presentations.
  • Strong work ethic and a positive, friendly, and customer service-oriented attitude.
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Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
17K employees (708 in marketing)
77% recommend to a friend
84% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
3.9M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$875.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
39%
Direct
47.7%
Referral
12.4%
Social
0.4%
Paid
0.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~17.2K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
481 (3% of company)
Median Career Experience
14 years
Median Tenure
4.1 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
4

Funding

Total Funding
$11.7M
Last Raise
$60K
Grant, 7 months ago

Funding History

  • Aug 2025
    Grant • $60K
  • Jul 2024
    Grant • $1M
  • Mar 2024
    Grant • $49.8K

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