Position: Marketing Solutions Manager
Department: Strategic Communications & Marketing
Type of Position: Full-time Salaried
Exemption Status: Exempt
Work Schedule, Hours per week: Monday-Friday, 40 hours per week
Opportunity for hybrid schedule: Yes
Starting Salary Range: $73,109.00-$96,115.00 and determined based on relevant years of work experience provided on application and resume.
Position Summary: The Marketing Solutions Manager supports JCCC by serving as a consultative partner to campus stakeholders, leading strategic discovery, scoping marketing projects, and managing lifecycle accounts for marketing initiatives. This position develops clear strategic project briefs, ensures alignment with institutional goals and brand standards, and collaborates with internal teams to deliver effective, audience-centered campaigns. The incumbent monitors project progress, evaluates outcomes, and recommends process improvements to enhance efficiency and stakeholder satisfaction while supporting the College’s mission.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in communications, marketing, project management, marketing operations, or related fields.
- 6+ years of experience in account management, marketing strategy, or project management.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Higher education experience. Experience with project management and analytic tools.
Position Details: Job duties include but are not limited to:
- Lifecycle Account Management:
- Build and maintain strong, consultative relationships with campus partners to proactively identify marketing needs while remaining responsive to ad hoc stakeholder requests.
- Collaborate with the Traffic and Resource Manager to transition scoped projects into production with complete and actionable information.
- Monitor project milestones from a “client" perspective to ensure deliverables align with the original strategic intent and JCCC brand standards.
- Strategic Discovery & Project Scoping:
- Lead discovery sessions to define project requirements, objectives, target audiences, and impact.
- Develop strategic briefs that guide creative and tactical executions, ensuring the department has clear parameters and defined success metrics to guide brainstorming and ideation to identify tactical solutions.
- Negotiate competing priorities and sensitivities among diverse campus partners, serving as a trusted advisor to ensure appropriate resource allocation and priority.
- Maintain project team/stakeholder alignment throughout the project lifecycle, managing expectations, and ensuring final deliverables meet articulated goals.
- Impact Assessment & Innovation:
- Conduct post-project debriefs and provide stakeholders with wrap-up reports that analyze project outcomes and performance against initial goals.
- Recommend improvements to intake, scoping, and feedback processes to enhance efficiency and partner satisfaction.
- Monitor higher education and industry trends to reach target audiences.
*Other duties as assigned.
To be considered for this position we will require an application, resume, and cover letter.
*Unofficial transcripts are required for all Adjunct faculty and Faculty positions.
Benefits Category
For Full‑time Employees:
- Health insurance with some employer paid options.
- Life insurance & AD&D (employer provided)
- Retirement plans (403(b), 457(b), and KPERS)
- Employer paid 8% contribution into a 403(b) no match required
- Paid time off (vacation, sick, personal, and floating holidays)
- 14 days of paid holidays
- Full tuition reduction for JCCC credit courses (for employee and eligible dependents)
- Tuition reimbursement / assistance for non‑JCCC courses for employee
- Free access to the Gym on campus for all employees and dependents
- Discount to the Hiersteiner Child Development Center
- And many more!
About JCCC:
Established in 1969, Johnson County Community College is dedicated to transforming lives and strengthening communities through learning. Located in Overland Park, Kansas, JCCC has enjoyed a national reputation for educational excellence and student success for more than 50 years. That's five decades dedicated to smaller class sizes, more resources and a thriving campus culture – not to mention our competitive tuition rates and extracurricular experiences that transcend the norm.
Mission: JCCC inspires learning to transform lives and strengthen communities.
Vision: JCCC will be an innovative leader in equitable student access, learning and success.
Equal Employment Opportunity:
JCCC is an equal opportunity employer and equal access institution. JCCC does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, national origin, ancestry, disability, age, religion, marital status, parental status, military status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or other factors that cannot be lawfully considered in its programs and activities, which includes employment and admissions, in accordance with Titles VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Equal Pay Act of 1963, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, Executive Order 11246, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 503 and 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Vietnam Era Veteran’s Readjustment Assistance Act, the Jobs for Veterans Act of 2002, the Kansas Acts Against Discrimination and all other applicable civil rights and nondiscrimination laws.
Inquiries concerning JCCC's compliance with its nondiscrimination policies (including Title IX, Title VI and Section 504 inquiries) may be referred to a Title IX Coordinator (TitleIX@jccc.edu), or Director of Human Resources, or the Dean of Students and Learner Engagement at Johnson County Community College, 12345 College Blvd, Overland Park, KS 66210, 913-469-8500; or to Office for Civil Rights, Kansas City Office, U.S. Department of Education, One Petticoat Lane, 1010 Walnut Street, Suite 320, Kansas City, MO 64106, Telephone: 816-268-0550, Facsimile: 816-268-0559, Email to: OCR.KansasCity@ed.gov.
Disclosure:
If you need any assistance throughout the search process, please reach out to the HR@jccc.edu. In accordance with the college policy, finalists for this position will be subject to criminal background investigations. Individual hiring departments at JCCC may elect to administer pre-employment tests, which are relevant to essential job functions as part of the applicant selection/hiring process. Many departments require those selected for hire to submit a certified transcript for all degrees obtained. For full consideration, applicants are encouraged to apply prior to the review date listed in posting.
Duties and responsibilities, as required by business necessity, may be added, deleted or changed at any time at the discretion of management, formally or informally, either verbally or in writing. Scheduling, shift assignments and work location may be changed at any time, as required by business necessity.
If you are an applicant requesting assistance or a reasonable accommodation in the application process, please contact the Office of Human Resources at 913-469-3877, or email HR@jccc.edu.
