Student Experience Communications Manager

Austin, TX (On-site)

$80K/yr - $123K/yr (Est.)Mid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 2 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own the Liberal Arts Career Services marketing and student engagement, driving relationship management, social media strategy, event promotion, and intern supervision while coordinating website content and cross-functional partnerships.

  • Owns relationship building across faculty, staff, and campus partners
  • Leads social media strategy and content across Instagram and LinkedIn
  • Heads event marketing and student intern supervision with close collaboration across teams

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Relationship Management: Collaborate and communicate with faculty, staff, and other campus partners to promote the dynamic liberal arts student experience, providing accurate and positive information about career possibilities. Support the expansion of the career ecosystem model across the College, infusing career initiatives across the student experience. Manage marketing requests from within the Liberal Arts Career Services team.
  • Social Media Management: Lead strategy for Liberal Arts Career Services’ Instagram account including identifying audiences, content pillars, and formats. Manage content calendar in accordance with content goals. Collaborate with Public Affairs on LinkedIn strategy and provide career related content. Enhance presence and increase activity and impact across both platforms.
  • Event Marketing and Support: Lead and coordinate marketing efforts for Liberal Arts Career Services events including social media promotion, digital media, and print materials. Manage live coverage of events including social media and photography/videography needs. Support with event operations for Liberal Arts Career Services and College of Liberal Arts events.
  • Student Connections: Maintain pulse of liberal arts student trends, behaviors, and interests. Manage relationships with liberal arts student groups by communicating with student leaders and staff/faculty advisors, providing career resources and updates, and attending meetings or events to promote career initiatives.
  • Student Marketing Intern Supervision: Establish candidate pools, interview, engage, and train student marketing interns. Assign and supervise tasks directly for student marketing interns. Lead regular team meetings, provide feedback, and coordinate professional development for students.
  • Website Management: Ensure consistency and accuracy with career content on department pages, working directly with departments to create tailored content as needed. Gather, audit, and analyze existing content. Support the Liberal Arts Career Services website with maintenance, updating and enhancing content for greater engagement and student success.
  • Other related duties and functions as assigned and based on the evolving needs of the College.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree. At least three years of branding, marketing, or communication strategy experience. Excellent project management abilities, interpersonal skills, and oral and written communication skills. Experience working across programs and teams to achieve goals. Ability to manage competing priorities, working independently and in collaboration with others. Proficiency in MS Office Suite and social media channels. At least 2 years professional or paraprofessional supervisory experience buying advertising, developing, and implementing special promotions, electronic media production, print production, sales, and/or marketing professional entertainment events. Relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.

Preferred

  • Experience building and cultivating strong partnerships in a university setting. Demonstrated experience and interest in serving university students. Skill with innovating and taking initiative to address needs of wide variety of stakeholders. Adaptability amid ambiguity and cross-team collaboration. Experience with equipment and processes used in the position’s specific areas of responsibility, including automated systems.

Benefits

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The University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin is one of the largest public universities in the United States. Founded in 1883, the University has grown from a single building, eight teachers, two departments and 221 students to a 350-acre main campus with 21,000 faculty and staff, 16 colleges and schools and more than 50,000 students.

Founded in 2014
Austin, Texas, USA
26K employees (1,078 in marketing)

Salaries

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$80K/yr – $123K/yr

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Funding

Total Funding
$189.6M
Last Raise
$3.3M
Grant, 2 years ago

Funding History

  • Jul 2024
    Grant • $3.3M
  • Jun 2023
    Grant • $18M
  • Jul 2022
    Grant • $100K

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
12.9M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$987.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
45.4%
Direct
46.7%
Referral
6.7%
Social
0.5%
Paid
0.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~26.1K

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