Enrollment Project Manager

The University of Virginia seeks a collaborative, creative, and detail-oriented professional to serve as a Project Manager for Enrollment's communication team and the work it does to support four constituent offices: Student Financial Services, the Office of Undergraduate Admission, the Office of the University Registrar, and the Virginia College Advising Corps.

This position, reporting to the Director of Enrollment Communications, will work with communicators and colleagues to help support the implementation of a communications and marketing strategy that:

• Strengthens the excellence, diversity, success, and sense of community of the student body;

• Increases the number of low-income, first-generation, and underrepresented high-school students across Virginia who enter and complete higher education; and

• Advances the mission of the University.

This position will play an integral role in supporting and executing strategic communications campaigns that engage key audiences. It calls for a detail-oriented project manager who can help advance multi-channel marketing initiatives, balance short-term tasks with long-term strategies, and keep projects on track to achieve meaningful engagement and deliver on key metrics.

Core Responsibilities:

• Working as a member of the University Enrollment team to generate compelling marketing and communications efforts, with key responsibility for project management.

• Collaborating with internal and external teams to ensure projects are delivered on time and with a high degree of professionalism.

• Collaborating with cross-functional teams (Admissions, Financial Aid, Registrar, etc.) to ensure alignment in messaging and consistency in communications.

• Assisting in creating and monitoring communications project timelines.

• Creating and coordinating standard reporting and analytics for communication initiatives to measure success.

• Preparing materials, documents, and data related to various marketing efforts.

• Participating in creative briefings, project meetings, design review, and content planning meetings.

• Providing ad-hoc problem-solving and support for day-to-day team needs.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects with varying levels of complexity simultaneously, while maintaining attention to detail.

• Proficiency in project management software (e.g., Workfront, Asana) and an understanding of project management methodologies that will allow you to communicate project statuses and address any obstacles to project success.

• Ability to recommend and assist with implementing project management software that fits the needs of the communications team and team collaborators.

• Proven success working effectively in a fast-paced environment with all levels of management and across multiple offices, departments, or units.

• Experience supporting the development of project scopes and budgets, including the creation of detailed project plans - with timelines, milestones, and deliverables.

• Excellent organizational and time-management skills, with the ability to anticipate challenges, problem-solve proactively, and manage multiple priorities.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and related products.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Project management experience within a creative marketing space or similar team environment.

• Experience with vendor or agency management.

• PMP certification

Required Experience:

• Candidates must have a bachelor's degree with 2 or more years of project coordinator or project management experience.

Anticipated Hiring Range:$50,000 to $60,000 commensurate with experience and corresponding job profile.

This position will remain open until filled. This is an Exempt level, benefited position. This is a hybrid position. The University will perform background checks on all new hires prior to employment.

To Apply:

Please apply through the UVA Job Board and search R0067813. Internal applicants must apply through their UVA Workday profile by searching 'Find Jobs'.

• CV or Resume

• Cover letter

• Portfolio

Upload all materials into the resume submission field, multiple documents can be submitted into this one field. Alternatively, merge all documents into one PDF for submission.Applications that do not contain all required documents will not receive full consideration.

References will be completed via UVA's standardized process Skill Survey. A total of five references will be requested via Skill Survey during the final phase of the interview process.

For questions about the position or the application process, please contact Jon Freeman, Academic Recruiter at jf2sw@virginia.edu.

The University of Virginia, including the UVA Health System which represents the UVA Medical Center, Schools of Medicine and Nursing, UVA Physician's Group and the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, are fundamentally committed to the diversity of our faculty and staff. We believe diversity is excellence expressing itself through every person's perspectives and lived experiences. We are equal opportunity and affirmative action employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, and family medical or genetic information.