Responsibilities

• Client leadership: own relationships with assigned education clients and serve as their trusted strategic partner — understanding their goals, anticipating their needs, and making sure the work delivers.
• Marketing and communications: direct integrated programs across paid, earned, and owned channels — enrollment and advancement campaigns, brand and messaging, content, and public relations — delivered by internal teams and partners in Hawaiʻi and around the world.
• Reputation and stakeholder communications: guide how clients show up and speak — media relations, executive and community messaging, and issues or crisis communications when reputation is on the line.
• Project management: manage the projects tied to your clients — timelines, budgets, and vendors — coordinating across the agency team and any vendors to hold the highest standards of quality and performance and to meet or exceed objectives.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, or a related field (minimum)
• 8–10 years of progressive experience in marketing, communications, and public relations
• Education-sector experience — enrollment marketing, admissions, or advancement — a strong plus
• A track record of growing responsibility and results

Preferred

• Agency experience preferred
• Education-sector experience — enrollment marketing, admissions, or advancement — a strong plus
• A track record of growing responsibility and results

Benefits

• Parking subsidy or monthly Bus Pass
• 401(k) with Company Match
• Health Insurance coverage (including Acupuncture and Massage) paid by employer
• Group Term Life Insurance
• Supplemental Insurance available
• Flex Spending Accounts (Medical and Dependent Care)
• Year-end performance bonus
• Paid Vacation, Holiday and Sick Pay
• Professional development supported