Job Information
Providence College Project Manager in Providence, Rhode Island
Position Information
Position Title Project Manager
Overview
Facilitate interdepartmental collaboration between Marcom and the College’s academic and administrative units; primarily admission, advancement, and the president’s and executive office, for the purpose of delivering tailored marketing and communications to meet the colleges strategic goals and maintain brand standards.
Essential Duties:
Serve as the primary project manager for high-profile individual and multi-channel communications and marketing, enterprise-wide. Ensure maximum efficiency, consistency, and customer service. Assess project requests at point of intake, serving as the primary conduit for access to creative services within the division. Advise on workflow and delegation in consultation with divisional leadership, and in support of the college’s strategic priorities.
Oversee the project management and related systems used within MarCom to maximize efficiency, accuracy, and brand consistency. Serve as the primary administrator of project management tools, including Basecamp, Smartsheet, and Microsoft 365 apps, used to maximize efficiencies across the MarCom operation and to facilitate the project request/review/approval process for collaborators, such as colleagues in admission and advancement. Oversee the digital and analog review and approval process that is important to ensuring accuracy and the timely completion of print and digital marketing projects.
Overall responsibility for managing the processes and platforms that make brand assets accessible and useful to professional communicators throughout the college. Manage the Canva design template platform and other services that MarCom provides for the purpose of making the college’s branded visual identity and associated strategies available and accessible to communicators who create communications pieces. Serve as the department’s primary resource and adviser to communicators looking to access and properly use fonts, templates, and design assets, in addition to facilitating discussions about brand strategy and messaging consistency meant to help the college achieve strategic goals and build community.
Serve as the college’s primary liaison to external printing and mailing vendors and manage the collaboration among the Copy Center and MarCom and its campus partners. Work to solicit appropriate bid specifications for printing, negotiate with vendors as necessary, and oversee budgets as they relate to the production process. Serve as the department’s liaison with college administrative units working with MarCom on print/collateral projects, provide answers to questions, facilitate approvals, and solve problems as they arise.
Marginal Duties:
Perform all other duties as may be required.
Education and Experience Required
Bachelor’s Degree in a related field from an accredited institution
Two to four years of professional experience related to production, coordination and scheduling in a fast-paced work environment, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
Ability to work under deadline while prioritizing assignments and dealing with multiple tasks simultaneously.
Advanced knowledge of print and digital publishing processes and graphic design software
Advanced knowledge of Microsoft 365 applications
Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite applications
Excellent interpersonal and client relations skills
Advanced organizational ability and attention to detail
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Sitting in a normal seated position for extended periods of time.
Reaching by extending hand(s) or arm(s) in any direction.
Finger dexterity required to manipulate objects with fingers rather than with whole hand(s) or arm(s), for example, using a keyboard.
Communication skills using the spoken word.
Ability to see within normal parameters.
Ability to hear within normal range.
Ability to move about.
Employee Status Full Time
Salary Grade 20 (Min. $62,700/Mid. $81,400/Max. $100,400)
Salary Information
Employees are normally hired between the minimum and the midpoint of a position’s grade range to which a position has been assigned, depending on experience and qualifications.
Benefits
Providence College offers a comprehensive range of valuable benefits to eligible employees, which are designed to:
Promote the health and well-being of you and your family
Provide financial security while you are working
Build financial resources for retirement
Help you balance personal and work responsibilities
Provide educational opportunities for you and your family
These benefits include but are not limited to health, dental, 403b retirement plan, flexible benefits plan, tuition benefits, employee assistance plan, college paid basic life insurance and long-term disability insurance, and paid time off. To learn more, please visit our Employee Benefits website by clicking the following link: https://human-resources.providence.edu/benefits/
Union Status Non-Union
Shift: Other
If other, please enter regular schedule.
Monday-Friday 8:30-4:30
EEO Statement
Providence College does not discriminate against any person because of race, color, national and ethnic origin, sex, gender, except where gender is a bona fide occupational qualification, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, age, veteran status, or genetic information. The college will develop, and from time to time update, an affirmative action program and will insist on a good-faith effort on the part of its employees to comply with the program. The college will request and expect its agents and those with whom it conducts its affairs to meet the commitment of this important program.
Posting Detail Information
Requisition Number AS948P
Closing Date
Open Until Filled Yes
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Required Documents
Resume
Cover Letter
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