Events & Marketing Professional

Responsibilities

• Facilitates national and local conferences and meetings for departmental and divisional leadership. This includes the scheduling and coordination for national, regional, and local speakers, sponsors and guests as needed by the various events.
• Tracks budgets for events and marketing.
• Coordinates procurement for travel logistics and events related to speakers.
• Provide event-related support for regular and annual educational activities with our faculty and staff.
• Assists with Community Engagement events and provide support to divisional community events.
• Building and maintaining relationships with local organizations that support and engage women
• Produces and maintains social media editorial content for department and divisional social media accounts.
• Develop content and creative storytelling for social media targeted at engaging specific audiences including community members, donors, alumni, potential trainees, conference attendees, etc.
• Produce multimedia content such as Instagram reels, quality photography, and quality infographics.
• Creates digital and print materials for event marketing and educational seminars.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, journalism, public relations, communications, business administration, business, or a directly related field from an accredited institution.
• Substitution: A combination of education and related technical/military/paraprofessional experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree on a year for year basis.
• 2 years of professional experience directly related to event planning and marketing.
• Substitution: An advanced degree (Masters or Doctorate) may be substituted for experience on a year-for-year basis if the degree is in a field of study directly related to the work assignment.
• Applicants must meet minimum qualifications at the time of hire.

Preferred

• 3-5 years of professional experience directly related to event planning and marketing.
• Experience working with Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Experience working with University of Colorado procurement systems (i.e. Concur, Marketplace, Cvent etc.).
• Experience booking travel arrangements (airfare, hotel, rental cars, etc.).
• Experience with multimedia production (photography and videography) and Adobe Creative Suite.
• Experience working in Canva.
• Experience working in Sitefinity (website platform).
• Meeting and event planning experience, including contract negotiation, exhibitor management, and catering.
• Experience working within branding guidelines

Benefits

• Medical: Multiple plan options
• Dental: Multiple plan options
• Additional Insurance: Disability, Life, Vision
• Retirement 401(a) Plan: Employer contributes 10% of your gross pay
• Paid Time Off: Accruals over the year
• Vacation Days: 22/year (maximum accrual 352 hours)
• Sick Days: 15/year (unlimited maximum accrual)
• Holiday Days: 15/year
• Tuition Benefit: Employees have access to this benefit on all CU campuses
• ECO Pass: Reduced rate RTD Bus and light rail service