Senior Recruitment Marketing Coordinator

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Urbana (IL); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign seeks a Marketing Coordination professional to lead recruitment marketing campaigns and collaborate with college units and external vendors. The role drives strategy, planning, execution, and performance analysis across paid and owned media.

Responsibilities include coordinating campaigns, managing relationships with media buyers and agencies, and delivering data-driven insights to improve recruitment outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Produce and implement marketing activities and initiatives that deliver on Grainger Engineering recruitment goals and strategic plans, ensuring budgets and deadlines are met.
• Create, write and coordinate marketing tactics including emails, direct mail, ads, webpages, print materials, collateral, social and paid media in support of recruitment marketing goals.
• Propose and implement new marketing strategies to positively impact unit goals.
• Use Asana project management to track and communicate progress and accountability.
• Coordinate with stakeholders across OMC and college units to ensure coordination and alignment of marketing initiatives.
• Serve as a primary contact for paid advertising in support of graduate program recruitment, building relationships with vendors and campus colleagues.
• Monitor industry trends and present insights and recommendations to leadership to enhance marketing strategies.
• Provide quality assurance on marketing materials produced for academic units and the college.

Job description

Duties Responsibilities

Marketing Coordination

• Produce and implement marketing activities and initiatives that deliver on Grainger Engineering recruitment goals and strategic plans, ensuring that they are executed within budgets and deadlines. Manage project progress, identify potential issues and proactively communicate updates to key stakeholders.
• Create, write and coordinate marketing tactics including emails, direct mail, ads, webpages, print materials, collateral, social and paid media, etc. in support of recruitment marketing goals.
• Propose and implement new marketing strategies to positively impact unit goals
• Work within OMC project management software (Asana) and system, maintaining accountability for projects and tasks.
• Initiate, organize and engage stakeholders within OMC and across college units to ensure seamless coordination and alignment of marketing initiatives. Foster strong working relationships and promote effective communication across teams.
• Serve as a primary point of contact for paid advertisement in support of graduate program recruitment, building strong collaborative relationships with vendors and campus colleagues.
• Actively monitor marketing industry trends, best practices and emerging technologies. Present as needed to OMC leadership, staff and academic leaders on insights and recommendations and collaboratively implement to enhance marketing strategies and tactics.
• Provide quality assurance on marketing materials produced for academic units and the college.

Strategy and Planning

• Coordinate with MarCom colleagues and manage relationships with external vendors and agencies (including media buyers, digital marketing consultants, etc.) to generate strong recruitment marketing campaigns and programs across paid and owned media.
• Strategize, develop, monitor, analyze and refine paid media for recruitment marketing.
• Serve as a marketing strategic partner/liaison to foster strong relationships between college units and OMC. Proactively communicate, collaborate, and regularly present on marketing activity and performance metrics to stakeholders.
• Manage and execute marketing efforts and derive maximum benefit from unit partnerships to reach unit and college recruitment goals.
• Coordinate annual recruitment marketing planning and priority setting for academic units in concert with the Graduate Programs Office and OMC leadership.
• Lead the ideation, coordination and execution of various unit marketing campaigns, particularly campaigns centered around recruitment. Ensure alignment with Grainger Engineering and University of Illinois brand and marketing strategies and guidelines.

Tracking and Reporting

• Proactively coordinate and develop success metrics, organize channel performance data, and provide regular reports on campaign progress.
• Manage data dashboards as needed for college and collaborating units.
• Manage marketing campaigns and activities to ensure activity correlation to impact through appropriate digital tracking and regular reporting.

Other

• Assume additional duties related to marketing and communications to further the mission of The Grainger College of Engineering.