Primary Responsibilities /Accountabilities/ Essential Functions:
- Own SEO performance for assigned verticals and content types.
- Conduct keyword gap analyses, competitive research, and user intent mapping to identify opportunities.
- Perform advanced on-page and technical SEO audits (e.g., indexation, internal linking, site architecture).
- Recommend new pages, content refreshes, or additional SEO initiatives related to owned verticals
- Support testing initiatives and set up lightweight experiments (e.g., different title formats, content structures) and track results over time.
- Identify and resolve SEO issues such as duplicate content, crawl errors, slow-loading pages, and broken links.
- Collaborate with content, UX, and development teams to guide SEO implementation and monitor progress.
- Maintain and update SEO documentation, keyword maps, and internal SOPs for owned verticals.
- Report on SEO performance trends and provide actionable insights during regular updates.
- Other duties as assigned.
Equipment Used and Responsibility
- Strong understanding of technical SEO, keyword strategy, and content optimization.
- Experience using SEO tools such as Google Search Console, Google Analytics, SEMrush, Ahrefs, Screaming Frog, or similar.
- Proven ability to prioritize tasks, meet deadlines, and manage multiple projects independently.
- Comfort interpreting data, identifying patterns, and drawing actionable conclusions.
- Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Familiarity with CMS platforms (e.g., Drupal, WordPress) and basic HTML/CSS.
- Understanding of how SEO integrates with CRO, UX, and web development processes.
Supervisory Responsibilities
May provide direction, oversight and mentoring to less-experienced Marketing staff members, and student-workers.
Experience/ Education
- Bachelor’s degree in marketing, Digital Marketing, Communications, Business, or a related field. Equivalent work experience may be considered.
- 2–5 years of hands-on SEO experience, ideally in a mid-level or specialist role.
- Background in managing SEO within large-scale websites or multi-departmental organizations.
- Must be able to pass pre-employment background screen.
Physical Requirements:
- Sitting: 6-7 hours a day
- Standing: 1-2 hours a day
- Walking: 1-2 hours a day
- Lifting: Occasionally
- Carrying: Rarely
- Pushing: Rarely
- Bending: Rarely
- Squatting: Rarely
- Kneeling: Rarely
- Climbing: Rarely
- Reaching: Occasionally
- Grasping: Frequently
- Fine Eye to Hand Coordination: Continuously
- Driving: Rarely
- Work Environment: Remote
Top Skills
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.
