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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.
The Digital Marketing Specialist (DMS) is a project management role that is key in consistently fulfilling the marketing partner and university client web projects. The DMS will assist with various website production responsibilities with an emphasis on organizing and formatting content, images, and other web assets. These projects are designed to engage various audiences to promote the university's educational services. The DMS will effectively communicate with the surrounding teams and clients to ensure the project scope is thorough and complete. This helps ensure a quick turnaround time to update the website pages and obtain assets as required to meet deadlines. Specializing in strategy and execution of various, sometimes complex, digital marketing initiatives, the DMS will use their communications, marketing, SEO, and digital marketing skills to further the university, its enterprises and other higher education partners in search. Although the day-to-day job involves working closely with a small team, the DMS must be able to work from home and manage their working hours productively.
What you will do:
Own website production tasks within WordPress or Drupal (depending on website), including but not limited to:
- Creating and editing website pages including full-page layout decisions
- Create and edit menus, breadcrumbs, set redirects, etc.
- Working with widgets and pre-determined elements to build pages
- Importing and cleaning up events, blog posts and diverse content types.
- Assist with content design on web pages using established style guides and pre-designed asset libraries. Work with web design and development teams to ensure the brand strategy is consistently applied during the development of web properties.
- Follow specified processes and run quality assurance (QA) reviews of updated website pages and deliverables before they are sent to a client for review or launched on the website.
- Communicate and collaborate with other team members (i.e., copywriters, SEO specialists, marketing project specialists for clients, web designers/developers) throughout projects to ensure accuracy and timeliness of delivery.
- Gain clarity on client needs and interpreting their requests in a variety of communication methods, including internal posts in project management system, collaborating on calls, quick clarifications via Microsoft Teams, etc.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines while following defined processes
- This position exists to set up a client or a team member for success, so the DMS will need to connect with team members on a personal yet professional level while working together to complete the work at hand.
- The team thrives on open and direct communication to help keep awareness and ownership at optimal levels.
- Organizational skills are a must due to the range of projects, priorities, milestones, and deliverables that run concurrently
- There will be opportunities to implement website strategies and track what works and what does not.
- Finding and providing solutions to problems may be a portion of these organizational skills where research of options and communicating those upward can impact business decisions.
- Maintain knowledge of current website trends and best practices to propose innovative ideas or tactics to try as they arise within the website properties.
- The ability to embrace and learn newer technology tools quickly is essential.
- Experience with project management tools and other software.
- Adhere to follow-up processes to help meet promises and exceed expectations for project deadlines.
- Keep the client management team up to date on any changes that may affect the final product or delivery timing to the client.
- Other duties as assigned, including but not limited to, assisting related teams with their assigned responsibilities, self-initiated projects to improve the university’s or university partners’ websites, obtaining recommended industry learning courses and/or certifications as well as updating published content with newer components, schema markup or other recommended content elements to improve search.
What you will do:
Microsoft Office Suite including SharePoint for file management and Teams for instant communication
Workamajig project management software.
Supporting software, including but not limited to, Photoshop/Pixlr, Google Analytics, WordPress, Drupal, FullStory, WordPress and Microsoft Clarity.
Working knowledge of website best practices
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Experience with working on websites in one or more of the following areas: content design, copywriting, content management/production, or imaging editing to name a few
Professional experience with Drupal and WordPress or similar HTML CMS (Content Management System) backends
Bachelor’s degree in marketing, project management, communications, public relations, journalism, or a related field
Minimum of three years professional experience within a digital agency, marketing department, or other corporate environment
Must be able to pass pre-employment background investigation
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
Grand Canyon Education Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Grand Canyon Education and has not been reviewed or approved by Grand Canyon Education.
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Inclusive Benefits Coverage — Education benefits extend to employees and eligible spouses and dependents, including substantial tuition coverage at Grand Canyon University. Equal marriage benefits were implemented, indicating inclusive eligibility policies.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes multiple medical, dental, and vision options with HSA/FSA support, plus life and long‑term disability coverage. The breadth of plan choices is positioned as a comprehensive offering.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off and holiday breaks are described as generous. Some roles provide flexibility that complements available PTO.
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What We Do
Grand Canyon Education (GCE) is an educational service company that provides an array of support services in the post-secondary education sector. Formerly part of Grand Canyon University (GCU), GCE still supports and works closely with GCU. GCE designs and develops educational programs for GCU and other traditional campus institutions, as well as online partner institutions at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels. At Grand Canyon Education, we value our employees and support a unique and diverse workplace culture designed to help you thrive. We offer a wide variety of career opportunities across various departments. For job opportunities, please visit https://jobs.gce.com/ In addition Grand Canyon Education has been recognized as one of America’s Most Trusted Companies 2022 by Newsweek and Statista. We have also been identified as a leader in remote work as we have been named to FlexJobs' 9th annual list of the Top 100 Companies to Watch for Remote Jobs! Finally, we have been praised for our commitment to cultivating an engaging and attractive workplace by Top Workplaces USA.
