Senior Associate Director of Marketing Project Management

Founded in 1863, Boston College is a Jesuit, Catholic university located six miles from downtown Boston with an enrollment of 9,445 full-time undergraduates and 5,125 graduate and professional students. Ranked 35 among national universities, Boston College has 878 full-time and 1,201 FTE faculty, 2,750 non-faculty employees, an operating budget of $1.2 billion, and an endowment in excess of $2.8 billion.

Reporting to the Director of Advancement Communications & Marketing, the Senior Associate Director of Marketing Project Management is a leader in Advancement responsible for managing project workload, strategy, and delivery.

As the expert on process, project pipeline, project onboarding, and workload distribution, the Senior Associate Director ensures all project deliverables are completed on-time, on-budget, and appropriately map to the strategic priorities of each internal client, University Advancement, and Boston College. The person in this role leads a team that facilitates these aspects of the Communications and Marketing team's operations. It is expected that this individual will play an active and critical role managing most of the Division's key initiatives, fundraising campaigns, and events.
This position works hand-in-hand with members of the University Advancement Communications & Marketing's content, creative, and digital teams to ensure strategic alignment and delivery of projects to promote the overall institutional goals related to philanthropy and engagement. The Senior Associate Director will also partner closely with other teams within Advancement to ensure excellence in all marketing and communication projects, and to evaluate the success of those efforts.
Primary Duties:

• Lead and develop a team of marketing and communications professionals
• Provide strategic marketing guidance to colleagues in Communications & Marketing and throughout University Advancement in an effort to exceed fundraising and participation goals
• Partner closely with the Director and other Senior Associate Directors in Communications & Marketing to facilitate project intake and assign project teams
• Manage complex timelines, tactics, and overall project workflow of key fundraising campaigns, initiatives, and events, including maintaining their own portfolio of projects and partners
• Perform quality control on all projects to maintain the highest standards
• Continually assess resources, capacity, and workflow across all of Communications & Marketing, and make adjustments to project plans, teams, and portfolios where necessary
• Ensure that all team members have the required information and resources to carry out their tasks effectively
• Lead the implementation and on-going use of project management tools and resources across all of Communications & Marketing; establish and help enforce best practices in project management
• Facilitate working groups, task forces, and other team-based efforts across all of University Advancement when appropriate
• Help lead the analysis and assessment of campaign performance

Full-Time Equivalent Hiring Range: $90,100 to $112,650; salary commensurate with relevant experience.

• Strategic and resourceful leader that inspires confidence from colleagues and develops team members' skills and knowledge
• Skilled at managing and developing a high-performing team and providing formal and informal mentorship to others
• Exceptional communication and project management skills
• Proficiency in presentation, collaboration, and communication tools
• Extensive knowledge of multi-channel marketing practice
• Natural tendency to offer creative and practical solutions to a variety of challenges; and put those solutions into action quickly
• Ability to foster a culture of positivity and accountability and work as a member of a high performing team that consistently delivers high quality results
• A personal belief in the mission, goals and objectives of Boston College as a private higher education institution and a desire to change the world
• Bachelor's degree and five to seven years of experience in project management and/or marketing communications, preferably in a higher-ed or large non-profit setting
• Proven leadership & outstanding communication skills

Must be a collaborative team player who is highly motivated and dedicated to the goals of advancing higher education and have an appreciation for Jesuit Catholic education and the goals and values of Boston College.
The office of University Advancement supports the mission of Boston College by promoting a culture of inclusion that values each individual. Our recruiting practices support that commitment to build diverse teams reflecting our community; students, alumni, parents and friends of Boston College.

Boston College offers a broad and competitive range of benefits depending on your job classification eligibility:

• Tuition remission for Employees
• Tuition remission for Spouses and Children who meet eligibility requirements
• Generous Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Low-Cost Life Insurance
• Eligibility for both University-Funded 401k and Employer-Sponsored 403b Retirement Plans
• Paid Holidays Annually
• Generous Sick and Vacation Pay
• Additional benefits can be found on https://www.bc.edu/employeehandbook

Boston College conducts background checks including education, and verifies COVID-19 vaccination as part of the hiring process.

Boston College is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected category including disability and protected veteran status. To learn more about how BC supports diversity and inclusion throughout the university please visit the Office for Institutional Diversity at https://www.bc.edu/offices/diversity .

Boston College's Notice of Nondiscrimination can be viewed at https://www.bc.edu/nondiscrimination .