Marketing Communications Coordinator (Temporary)

Minneapolis, MN (Hybrid)

$26/hr – $30/hrMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 13 days ago

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Job Summary

Own and coordinate admissions communications end to end, ensuring timely, accurate messages and cross-team project alignment, with responsibilities spanning QA, topic management, and marketing material coordination.

  • Coordinate QA and key point updates
  • Manage admissions communications and enrollment topics
  • Support marketing material management and calendar operations

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Coordination (60%)
  • - Quality Assurance: Manage the process and implementation for communications across the communications unit. Includes checking for typos, audience review, system set-up.
  • - Key points coordination: Ensure timely updates and training for public-facing staff; Includes updating of key stats and facts to inform larger marketing updates
  • - Managing assigned communications:
  • - Manage and implement operational communications to ensure accurate and timely messages are delivered regarding a student’s admissions application.
  • - Manage assigned topics related to enrollment, after admission, including but not limited to housing, international communications and others as needed.
  • - Strategic project management and calendar alignment: Work across units in the Customer Experience and Communications team to ensure top projects are moving along and issues or barriers are identified and mitigated.
  • - Budget review and alignment with communications director: Includes collaboration with team members to forecast spending and confirm details in budget reports
  • - Website updates: Will handle basic updates related to annual stats, facts and related content; approve content provided by team members as needed.
  • Marketing material management (30%)

Requirements

  • Requires BA/BS in communications, public relations, marketing, business, or related industries with at least 2 years of related experience (or 4 years for a Pro 3 consideration) or relevant work experience to equal six years (eight years for a Pro 3 Consideration);
  • Demonstrated communications industry project management skills managing multi-layered work, teams and considerations
  • Demonstrated excellent editing and proofreading skills
  • Demonstrated detail management, excellent follow-through and quality work practices
  • Experience in a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) or Content Management System (CMS)

Preferred

  • Experience in Slate
  • Experience in higher education

Benefits

  • - Competitive wages, paid holidays, and generous time off
  • - Continuous learning opportunities through professional training and degree-seeking programs supported by the Regents Tuition Benefit Program
  • - Low-cost medical, dental, and pharmacy plans
  • - Healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts
  • - University HSA contributions
  • - Disability and employer-paid life insurance
  • - Employee wellbeing program
  • - Excellent retirement plans with employer contribution
  • - Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) opportunity
  • - Financial counseling services
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Founded in 2007
Minnesota, USA
28K employees (535 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
8.9M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$782.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
45%
Direct
47.8%
Referral
6.1%
Social
0.7%
Paid
0.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~28K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
535 (2% of company)
Median Career Experience
13 years
Median Tenure
6.1 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
8

Funding

Total Funding
$97.1M
Last Raise
$25K
Grant, 2 years ago

Funding History

  • Dec 2023
    Grant • $25K
  • May 2023
    Grant • $20M
  • Apr 2023
    Grant • $10M

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