Responsibilities

• Build and maintain strong, consultative relationships with campus partners to proactively identify marketing needs while remaining responsive to ad hoc stakeholder requests.
• Collaborate with the Traffic and Resource Manager to transition scoped projects into production with complete and actionable information.
• Monitor project milestones from a “client" perspective to ensure deliverables align with the original strategic intent and JCCC brand standards.
• Lead discovery sessions to define project requirements, objectives, target audiences, and impact.
• Develop strategic briefs that guide creative and tactical executions, ensuring the department has clear parameters and defined success metrics to guide brainstorming and ideation to identify tactical solutions.
• Negotiate competing priorities and sensitivities among diverse campus partners, serving as a trusted advisor to ensure appropriate resource allocation and priority.
• Maintain project team/stakeholder alignment throughout the project lifecycle, managing expectations, and ensuring final deliverables meet articulated goals.
• Conduct post-project debriefs and provide stakeholders with wrap-up reports that analyze project outcomes and performance against initial goals.
• Recommend improvements to intake, scoping, and feedback processes to enhance efficiency and partner satisfaction.
• Monitor higher education and industry trends to reach target audiences.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, marketing, project management, marketing operations, or related fields.
• 6+ years of experience in account management, marketing strategy, or project management.

Preferred

• Higher education experience.
• Experience with project management and analytic tools.

Benefits

• Health insurance with some employer paid options.
• Life insurance & AD&D (employer provided)
• Retirement plans (403(b), 457(b), and KPERS)
• Employer paid 8% contribution into a 403(b) no match required
• Paid time off (vacation, sick, personal, and floating holidays)
• 14 days of paid holidays
• Full tuition reduction for JCCC credit courses (for employee and eligible dependents)
• Tuition reimbursement / assistance for non‑JCCC courses for employee
• Free access to the Gym on campus for all employees and dependents
• Discount to the Hiersteiner Child Development Center