Content Marketing Specialist

Denver, CO (Hybrid)

$73K/yr - $78K/yr (Est.)Mid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 19 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own multi-channel content strategy and coordination across university partners, driving content creation, optimization, and distribution to reach prospective students and key audiences.

  • Own content creation, curation, and strategy across channels
  • Lead cross-functional coordination and analytics-driven optimization

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Content Creation, Curation & Strategy
  • Build distribution strategies for collaborative storytelling projects designed to introduce the right content to the right audiences at the right time.
  • Maintain the University proof-point library of relevant and timely rankings, stats, facts and figures for incorporation into marketing content.
  • Cultivate user-generated content to extend authentic reach with prospective students and key audiences.
  • Attend photo and video shoots for content marketing projects to ensure alignment with brand and content strategy.
  • Assist with the development, execution, and monitoring of University Relations’ multi-channel content marketing strategy.
  • Cross-Functional Coordination & Collaboration
  • Contribute to project and creative briefs that clearly outline project objectives and deliverables, serving as lead coordinator for content creation across multiple teams, including design, multimedia, communications, social media and brand, as well as outside vendors and partners.
  • Identify content opportunities across campus and external communities that mutually support unit and institutional goals and objectives.
  • Facilitate reviews and implement feedback, leveraging knowledge of the target audience and brand voice and style.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Public Relations, Communications, or a related field plus 2 years of professional experience supporting marketing content strategy; OR any equivalent combination of education and/or experience from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved.

Preferred

  • Experience in a higher education setting or other large, complex organization.
  • Experience building and deploying emails in Salesforce Marketing Cloud or a similar platform.
  • Experience coordinating with external vendors.
  • Familiarity with the higher education market.
  • Experience with project management software, such as Wrike or Asana.

Benefits

  • The University of Denver offers excellent benefits , including medical, dental, retirement, paid time off, tuition benefit and ECO pass.
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Founded in 1864 — just a few years after the city of Denver itself was founded—the University of Denver is one of the country's premier private universities. The University's 125-acre campus, a few miles south of downtown Denver, is home to about 12,000 students hailing from all regions of the United States and 83 other countries. The University offers more than 100 undergraduate programs of study and more than 120 graduate and professional programs. DU is recognized as a Doctoral/Very High Research University (or “R1”) by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. The University of Denver may delete posts or comments that promote for-profit ventures that do not comply with DU policies. Posts that are grossly off-topic, abusive, contain profanity, pornography, are threatening, contain discriminatory language or language of bias or hate, and the like will not be tolerated. This page is moderated by DU staff to maintain safety and ensure appropriate interactions. Posts concerning safety and discrimination will be brought to the immediate attention of Campus Safety and/or Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

Founded in 1908
Denver, Colorado, USA
5.7K employees (318 in marketing)

Salaries

SalaryGuide estimate

$73K/yr – $78K/yr

Modelled from 3 comparable roles.

Content Marketing Specialist median pay in the United States

$75K/yr

Most pay falls between $65K and $81K. Based on 100 salaries.

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
229 (4% of company)
Median Tenure
3.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
5

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.2M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$932.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
40.7%
Direct
51.6%
Referral
6%
Social
0.9%
Paid
0.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~5.7K
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Content Marketing Specialist

University of Denver · Denver, CO · Hybrid