Marketing Cloud Specialist: Office of the Provost - UTK

Knoxville, TN (Hybrid)

$60K/yr – $70K/yrMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 6 days ago

Job Summary

Own the Marketing Cloud operations and Student Communications initiatives, driving governance, journey building, and cross-team collaboration to optimize usage and impact.

  • Manage day-to-day Marketing Cloud operations and governance
  • Build basic enterprise-level student journeys and optimize communications
  • Collaborate with campus partners and central teams to maintain standards and enable effective platform usage

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Support Marketing Cloud Operations:
  • Manage day-to-day marketing operations within Salesforce Marketing Cloud, including governance processes, documentation, and user enablement
  • Responsible for reviewing output from business units, identifying any discrepancies, and consulting with business owners on proper platform standards, workflows, and best practices to ensure compliance with all operations
  • Build and maintain structures, tools, and processes that support consistent intake, planning, calendaring, creation, and distribution of communications
  • Develop and maintain framework, documentation, and training materials to ensure effective platform usage by campus partners, and work with the Marketing Cloud Manager to finalize and distribute these resources. and training materials to support effective platform usage by campus partners
  • Coordinate with the central CRM team, Office of Communications and Marketing, partner business units, and OIT technical teams
  • Support Student Communications & Journeys:
  • Build basic enterprise-level student journeys within Salesforce Marketing Cloud
  • Ensure communications align with established standards for consistency, relevance, and personalization
  • Encourage adoption of Marketing Cloud as the university’s primary student communication channel

Requirements

  • Education: Associate’s Degree in Marketing, Business, Information Science, or related field
  • Experience: 2 – 3 years of experience in marketing technology or digital marketing roles
  • Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:
  • Working knowledge of digital communication and marketing platforms, methods, and best practices
  • Knowledge of basic automation and personalization approaches within communications platforms
  • Strong organizational and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and meet recurring deadlines
  • Ability to work collaboratively across teams and represent the office professionally in campus interactions
  • Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis without need now or in the future for sponsorship for employment-based visa status.

Preferred

  • Education: Bachelor’s Degree
  • Experience:
  • Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Specialist certification
  • Experience working in a higher education marketing, communications, or IT environment
  • Experience working with Salesforce Marketing Cloud or similar enterprise marketing platforms
  • Experience with Marketing Cloud Connect for CRM/Marketing Cloud integration
  • Knowledge of data governance, privacy, and compliance requirements
  • Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:
  • Working knowledge of SQL for querying, filtering, and managing data extensions
  • Working knowledge of AMPscript for dynamic content and personalization
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University of Tennessee

The University of Tennessee is a public land-grant university headquartered at Knoxville. Founded in 1794, it is the flagship institution of the statewide University of Tennessee system with nine undergraduate departments and eleven graduate departments and hosts more than 26,000 students from all 50 states and more than 100 foreign countries. In its 2009 ranking of universities, U.S. News & World Report ranked UT 118th among national universities and 52nd among public institutions of higher learning. Its ties to Oak Ridge National Laboratory, established under UT President Andrew Holt and continued under the UT-Battelle partnership, have positioned the University as co-manager and allow for considerable research opportunities for faculty and students enjoyed by few other institutions of comparable standing.Also affiliated with the University are the Howard H. Baker, Jr. Center for Public Policy, the University of Tennessee Anthropological Research Facility, and the University of Tennessee Arboretum, which occupies 250 acres of nearby Oak Ridge, Tennessee and features hundreds of species of plants indigenous to the region. The University is a direct partner of the University of Tennessee Medical Center, the only Level I trauma center in the East Tennessee region and a self-proclaimed 'teaching hospital' due to its aggressive medical research programs and position as the primary career destination for most medical school graduates of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center at Memphis.

Founded in 1913
USA
6K employees (267 in marketing)

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Posted range

$60K/yr – $70K/yr

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Funding

Total Funding
$19.3M
Last Raise
$523.8K
Grant, 1 years ago

Funding History

  • Oct 2024
    Grant
  • Sep 2024
    Grant • $523.8K
  • Sep 2024
    Grant • $50K

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
2M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$310K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
55.2%
Direct
39.2%
Referral
4.6%
Social
0.6%
Paid
0.3%

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Current headcount: ~6K

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Marketing Cloud Specialist: Office of the Provost - UTK

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