Associate Director of Marketing, Morgridge College of Education

Associate Director of Marketing, Morgridge College of Education

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Work type: Staff Full‑Time
Location: Denver, CO
Categories: Business Operations / Services, Admin / Executive / Office Support, Marketing / Communications / Media
Division: Morgridge College of Education

DU is the oldest and largest private, independent university in the Rocky Mountain Region, welcoming approximately 5700 undergraduate and 8000 graduate students to campus either in‑person or virtually each year. Our students complete a rigorous, comprehensive core curriculum in addition to a deep, hands‑on immersion in their technical curricula. DU is a research university with high research activity and an exceptional commitment to its students.

Denver, the Mile‑High City, consistently ranks as one of the best places to live in the United States. Denver’s economy is rapidly growing with strengths in the aerospace, healthcare, financial tech, telecommunications, and IT‑software sectors. Our region features a dry climate with 300 days of sunshine annually and surprisingly mild winters. The nearby Rocky Mountains provide beautiful views and abundant recreational opportunities year‑round.

The city of Denver is home to several major league sports teams, inclusive neighborhoods, and strong cultural and food scenes.

MCE is a leader in innovative and effective approaches for promoting learning, information literacy, healthy lifestyle, and civic participation throughout the lifespan. Transcending traditional ideas about education, schooling, and meaningful community engagement we embrace a new, comprehensive vision of learning as a lifelong activity that involves the whole person and can occur through a variety of methods, anywhere and at any time.

We promote educational change and social equity in addition to providing leadership for the improvement of education, mental health, libraries, and information services and systems.

The University of Denver’s Morgridge College of Education (MCE) invites applications for the position of Associate Director of Marketing & Communications.

The Morgridge College of Education’s vision is to train global leaders who employ innovative and effective approaches to advance learning throughout the lifespan, educational change, and social equity. Our programs prepare ethical, collaborative practitioners who can apply principles to promote learning and development with various clients and communities. We are looking for a candidate who can lead efforts to promote MCE and recruit quality graduate level students to our programs.

This is a full‑time, benefitted position.

The University of Denver’s Morgridge College of Education (MCE) invites applications for an Associate Director of Marketing and Communications. MCE is a leader in innovative and effective approaches for promoting learning throughout the lifespan. Transcending traditional ideas about education and schooling, we embrace a new, comprehensive vision of learning as a lifelong activity that involves the whole person and can occur through a variety of methods, anywhere and at any time.

We promote educational change and social equity in addition to providing leadership for the improvement of education, mental health, and information services and systems. This position provides marketing leadership over short and long‑range marketing and communication planning for the Dean’s Office as well as the larger MCE enrollment and marketing division. This position will oversee daily operations and activities of MCE’s internal and external marketing and communication efforts, in collaboration with other college and institutional partners including MCE Admissions, Advancement, and University Marketing and Communications.

The Associate Director will be responsible for optimizing digital marketing strategies, updating the MCE website, creating strategies and utilizing social media, designing and creating printed materials, and overseeing means to effectively share information and build engagement with prospective and current students, staff, faculty, alumni, donors and other community members. The Associate…