Marketing & Communications - Temporary Marketing Manager

Sacred Heart University • Fairfield, CT

7d • $28 - $33

About The Position

The Temporary Marketing Manager provides overall support to Sacred Heart University’s Marketing and Communications department, with a focus on marketing efforts that support graduate enrollment goals. The role supports the Executive Director of Marketing in developing and executing strategies and initiatives across the University’s colleges and graduate programs, working closely with Strategic Enrollment Management, Graduate Admissions, faculty, communications teams, creative teams, and other University stakeholders.

The position coordinates graduate-focused marketing content and projects across web, print, digital advertising, events, video, photography, and storytelling. It ensures materials are accurate, compelling, accessible, aligned with University brand and editorial standards, and delivered on time and on budget. The role manages assigned work through Asana and balances multiple projects and tight deadlines. Evening and weekend hours may be required.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, or a related field.
• Demonstrated success in marketing or enrollment fields.
• Understanding of content development, strategy, and execution across multiple channels, including social media, digital media advertising, and web management.
• Understanding of how the online world can assist in meeting goals.
• Proficiency in Excel is required.
• Ability to use project management software such as Asana is required.
• Ability to own projects, communicate with University stakeholders, work with creative teams, and deliver projects on budget and on time.
• Willingness to work against tight deadlines while balancing multiple projects.
• Sound ethical decision-making skills, enthusiasm, and respect for confidential issues.
• Strong organization, attention to detail, resourcefulness, and accountability to schedules.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Strong writing, editorial, and proofreading skills.
• Proactive communication and teamwork, with the ability to anticipate and uncover opportunities and needs and collaborate with internal departments to support and produce marketing materials.
• Must be lawfully authorized to work for any employer in the United States; the University is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa.
• Satisfactory completion of a background check is required as a condition of employment.

Responsibilities

• Support the Executive Director of Marketing in executing strategies and initiatives designed to advance graduate enrollment goals across Sacred Heart University’s colleges and graduate programs.
• Partner with Strategic Enrollment Management, Graduate Admissions, and faculty to understand graduate program priorities, target audiences, differentiators, enrollment goals, and recruitment needs, and translate them into marketing content and initiatives.
• Coordinate content updates for graduate program, department, and other enrollment-focused webpages, ensuring content is accurate, current, compelling, accessible, and optimized for prospective students.
• Support marketing and promotion of graduate recruitment events, including open houses, virtual information sessions, webinars, and other enrollment initiatives.
• Provide marketing oversight for graduate print collateral, including program fact sheets, brochures, postcards, event materials, and other recruitment pieces; partner with writers, designers, and University stakeholders throughout development, review, and production.
• Review graduate digital advertising creative and messaging, including Google search and display advertising, and recommend improvements to message alignment, program positioning, and prospective-student relevance.
• Provide strategic direction for graduate-focused video and photography projects, coordinating academic shoots with faculty, students, University partners, and creative teams.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen graduate program storytelling and proof points, and conduct outreach to students, alumni, and faculty to gather testimonials and success stories for marketing channels.
• Collaborate with Communications and Social Media teams to identify and amplify graduate academic achievements, faculty expertise, student outcomes, and other stories that support awareness, reputation, and enrollment goals.
• Manage assigned graduate marketing projects through Asana, coordinating stakeholders, timelines, approvals, and deliverables to keep projects on schedule.
• Ensure graduate marketing materials and communications adhere to University brand, editorial, and messaging standards.
• Perform other duties and special projects as assigned in support of Marketing & Communications and graduate enrollment priorities.

Benefits

• Part-time, non-benefit-eligible employees are eligible to participate in the University’s 403(b) retirement plan, without employer matching contributions, subject to plan terms and eligibility requirements. Temporary, per-diem, and seasonal staff are not eligible to participate in the 403(b) plan.

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