Own and drive end-to-end content initiatives by coordinating with strategic leaders to ensure accurate, timely content aligned with marketing goals and brand guidelines, while collaborating with stakeholders across departments to produce compelling materials.

Own content development for marketing and communications across multiple channels
Collaborate with stakeholders to align messaging and campaigns

Job Description

Responsibilities

Manages content projects from concept through delivery, collaborating with strategic leaders and stakeholders to ensure content is accurate, timely, and aligned with strategic marketing and communication goals.
Oversees the content development process, managing the interactions necessary to produce quality content for marketing and communications initiatives.
Produces content for earned media, internal, and external communications.
Provides high-quality writing and editorial expertise for a diverse range of communications projects to build awareness and increase engagement between CCC and its constituents.
Researches, writes, and edits content for marketing communication pieces for use in print and digital marketing campaigns, including broadcast, radio, video, web, mobile, SEO, and online banner advertising.
Ensures content incorporates CCC’s marketing messages, adheres to CCC’s brand identity guidelines, and supports CCC’s communications and marketing goals.
Collaborates with graphic designers to ensure messaging is clear, concise, and impactful across all communications materials.
Proofreads creative pieces prior to final production, ensuring all final materials are polished, accurate, and free of editorial errors.
Participates in brainstorming sessions and contributes creative concepts that support effective and compelling communications materials and creative marketing campaigns.
Collaborates with Institutional Advancement staff and other key stakeholders to create content for use in marketing projects ranging from brochures to web pages and email campaigns.

Requirements

A Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university in Communications, Marketing, Advertising, Public Relations, or a related field.
Minimum of three (3) years of progressively responsible professional experience in copywriting, content development, marketing communications, or related disciplines, preferably in an advertising agency, marketing, communications, or higher education environment.
Experience developing content for higher education, nonprofit, or similarly complex organizations preferred.
Demonstrated knowledge of current marketing, media, digital communications, and social media trends, including emerging content formats.
Demonstrated knowledge of content strategy and creation, including planning, developing, editing, and optimizing content across multiple channels and platforms.
Excellent writing, editing, and proofreading skills with strong attention to detail and the ability to maintain consistency across multiple communications platforms.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build collaborative relationships and work effectively with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
Excellent organizational and project management skills, including the ability to manage multiple projects, priorities, and deadlines simultaneously.
Ability to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment while maintaining a high level of accuracy and quality.
Ability to work evenings and weekends as required.

Preferred

Experience developing content for higher education, nonprofit, or similarly complex organizations preferred.

Benefits

WE OFFER: Excellent health and welfare benefit package and long-term savings and investment programs including 403(b) & 457(b) Investment Plans and a pension plan with the State University Retirement System (SURS) Plan.
Generous vacation, holiday, personal and sick days, and tuition reimbursement.
Benefits information is found at https://www.ccc.edu/departments/Benefits/
For a more detailed overview of benefits, please visit the benefits page of our website.

City Colleges of Chicago

City Colleges of Chicago is the largest community colleges system in Illinois and one of the largest in the nation, with over 4,000 faculty members and staff serving more than more than 80,000 students annually at seven colleges and five satellite sites. With locations across the City of Chicago, the seven colleges include Richard J. Daley College, Harold Washington College, Kennedy-King College, Malcolm X College, Olive-Harvey College, Harry S Truman College and Wilbur Wright College. CCC also oversees the award-winning Washburne Culinary & Hospitality Institute, the French Pastry School, the Parrot Cage Restaurant at South Shore Cultural Center, the Sikia Banquet Facility, five Child Development Centers, the Center for Distance Learning, the Workforce Academy and radio station WKKC FM 89.3.

Founded in 1911

Chicago, Illinois, USA

2K employees

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