Marketing Project Specialist

Come Grow with Us

Grand Canyon Education (GCE) is a rapidly growing educational service company that has long been an industry leader in providing educational, operational, and technological support services to the post-secondary education sector. Formerly part of Grand Canyon University (GCU), GCE still works closely with GCU to benefit thousands of students, families, and the local inner-city community. We put people first, drive innovation, and do good in the community that we live and work in.

GCE is seeking a full-time Marketing Project Specialist to join our growing team! This MPS role will be focusing on project management and working with our stakeholders on a regular basis to ensure clients' needs are met. Creating engaging campaigns and being a part of a fast-paced team is what this position is all about. This role is fully remote.

What you will do:

• Function as project manager supporting multiple Marketing Mangers, coordinating projects for multiple university partners
• Coordinate deployment of marketing activities with all relevant stakeholders and functional groups
• Keep marketing management informed of progress and potential issues and makes recommendations to ensure plans are well coordinated and synchronized.
• Applies considerable knowledge of marketing principles and techniques to assist in creating marketing campaign plans by utilizing both digital and traditional marketing methods/channels (i.e., brochures, flyers, posters, postcards, direct mail, billboards, apparel, emails, landing pages, micro sties, social media, radio, etc.).
• Confers with marketing management to confirm relevance of overall plan.
• Other duties assigned.

What you will have:

• Bachelor degree in marketing, public relations or communications
• 2-4 years’ marketing experience, preferably in an in-house creative department or agency
• Experience using a project management system is preferred
• Experience in executing marketing campaigns (traditional and digital) for a variety of audiences.
• Strong attention to detail, analytical and networking skills.
• Knowledge of media placement processes among multiple media channels.
• Knowledge of marketing analytics and ROI metrics

Why work at GCE:

• Exceptional workplace benefits include medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, flexible spending accounts, a 401K savings plan
• Generous time off plan and 11 paid holidays
• Paid time off to volunteer in the community or at GCU sponsored events
• We also offer full-time employees, their spouses and dependent children an Education Tuition Discount Program