Brand & Marketing Programs Manager

Laseagrant; Urbana (IL); On-site; USD 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign seeks a Marketing & Communications Project Manager for Extension to oversee statewide branding and project workflows. You will manage project intake, assign work, and coordinate with 102 counties, ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery.

This 100% full-time Civil Service 5004 role reports to the Director of Communications and offers competitive benefits. Salary range is $55,000–$65,000, commensurate with experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business administration, communications, public relations, or a closely related field.
• Five (5) years of professional work experience in marketing, public relations, communications, brand management, or a related professional area.
• Demonstrated project management experience in a multi-client, multi-project environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage project intake and assign projects within the team project management system, ensuring deadlines are tracked and projects are delivered on time.
• Coordinate use of communications team staff time needed to support delivery of projects as outlined in project scope documentation.
• Develop and maintain project management system organization and update and customize project intake forms, task templates, and rules to optimize project workflow and optimize team functionality.
• Identify the need for systems, provide research and recommendations, and execute system development.
• Provide client service and consistent communications to project requesters.
• Supervise and oversee development, updates, and dissemination of formalized MarCom processes such as proofing, team file storage, project workflow, and merchandise checkouts from MarCom inventory.
• Prepare, organize, and manage annual project schedules; determine deliverables and set deadlines; produce deliverables and coordinate with other staff or outside vendors to meet deadlines and deliver projects on time and on budget.

Skills

Project management

Brand management

Marketing

Communication

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in marketing/business/communications

Five years of marketing/PR experience

Job description

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign seeks a Marketing & Communications Project Manager for Extension to oversee statewide branding and project workflows. You will manage project intake, assign work, and coordinate with 102 counties, ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery.

This 100% full-time Civil Service 5004 role reports to the Director of Communications and offers competitive benefits. Salary range is $55,000–$65,000, commensurate with experience.