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Content Marketing Specialist

California College of the Arts
Full-time
On-site
San Francisco, California, United States
$37.88 - $38.63 USD hourly
Sales & Marketing
The Content Marketing Specialist is a member of CCA’s Office of Marketing and Communications. This in-house strategic and creative team proactively brings the college’s stories to a broad variety of audiences in support of CCA’s mission and its enrollment, reputational, and advancement goals. This role directly and critically supports our content marketing strategy and broadly supports the college’s mission of attracting students whose work makes a difference in the world.

Creative storyteller within brand standards
In our fast-paced environment, CCA seeks a versatile marketer who centers creativity and community in their work. Equally aware of TikTok trends and the CCA Style Guide, this role voices different channels—websites, landing pages, digital presentations, email, social media, and even zines—and adapts in tone and approach to engage people of all ages, especially Gen Z and Gen Alpha The role creates messaging and marketing materials that communicate the CCA experience, drive enrollment goals, and increase brand awareness. Research and engagement with our community of artists, architects, designers, and writers are key to ensuring that the content marketing authentically captures the spirit of CCA.

Produce and publish
This role contributes to a wide variety of digital content platforms and incorporates SEO best practices in a seamless and conversational way. Under the guidance of the Assistant Director of Content and Marketing, you’ll research, write, and review content you produce, as well as that of others. Flexible and agile, you’ll manage multiple projects simultaneously with competing timelines.

Student engagement and communication
The Content Marketing Specialist partners closely with Enrollment Management to articulate key messages to prospective student audiences, including youth programs, undergraduate, graduate, and adult courses and certificate offerings. Your work will speak to audiences across the application funnel, whether in a homepage headline, email stream, or virtual tour.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:

Marketing Copywriting - 80%

  • Under the direction and strategy of their manager, produce written work for CCA’s external marketing website, cca.edu, with a focus on academic pages, evergreen content, and homepage headlines

  • Work with faculty and subject-matter experts to distill complex concepts, ideas, and research into accessible, engaging copy

  • Contribute copy to enrollment materials, including the virtual tour, digital advertising campaigns (print, social, digital), print collateral, and email streams

  • Contribute copy to the social media editorial calendar in partnership with the Assistant Director of Content and Marketing

Research and relationship building -15%

  • Actively brainstorm and propose new ideas for CCA’s Content and Marketing Team

  • Collaborate closely with the Communications team to ensure alignment with CCA’s Editorial Style and Brand Guidelines

  • Conduct supplemental research to inform content development, including outreach to alumni, faculty, and students and collecting and organizing assets for our portfolio of projects.

  • Work across the institution to align content with institutional goals, mission, and brand

  • Follow digital trends and tactics, from social media to higher-education forums

  • Connect with students, faculty, and alumni to help tell their stories and represent their work in thoughtful, engaging ways

Project management - 5%

  • Organize work in Asana in conjunction with project schedules 

  • Manage stakeholder communication, including project status

  • Ability to multitask and manage time efficiently 

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

  • 1–3 years of experience with writing, preferably in an academic, cultural, or nonprofit setting

  • Bachelor’s degree in journalism, English, marketing, creative writing, communications, or other relevant discipline

  • Social media knowledge is preferred

  • Prior higher education experience is preferred but not required

  • Exceptional writing skills and attention to detail

  • Experience following brand and editorial style guidelines 

  • Digital content marketing and SEO experience 

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS:

  • The range for this position is $37.88 - $38.63/hour

  • CCA offers a comprehensive benefits package, including the choice of five medical plans, generous holiday, sick & vacation time, a retirement match and tuition remission. CCA covers an average of 91% of the medical plan cost for the employee only and an average of 82% for employees with dependents. More information can be found here: https://portal.cca.edu/working/office-human-resources/employee-benefits

POSITION DETAILS:

  • CCA considers a full-time work week to be 37.5 hours per week.

  • Work Mode: Hybrid

  • Schedule: Mon-Fri, 8am-4:30pm

  • This position is covered under the staff union collective bargaining agreement and will be required to contribute to union dues/agency fees.

Location

San Francisco

FLSA

Non-Exempt

Additional Locations

Application Instructions

Applicants are required to attach a cover letter and resume. Incomplete applications will not be considered. Recommended document file formats are Word or PDF.  If there are multiple attachments, we recommend compressing/zipping your files into a zip format file. There is also a place in the application for you to provide a link to large documents. Please submit an application form for each position for which you believe you are qualified. Applications are not kept on file for future positions.

Application Deadline

For staff positions, screening begins immediately and continues until the position is filled.

EEO Statement

As an educational and cultural institution, California College of the Arts has a responsibility to provide access and opportunities for all people, with special attention to supporting groups historically underrepresented in higher education.

We believe that a culturally diverse campus is integral to academic excellence, and our student, faculty, staff, and trustee bodies should reflect the diverse world in which we live, with attention to race, ethnicity, religious creed, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, and ability.

California College of the Arts is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from individuals who will contribute to its diversity. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to hr@cca.edu. In alignment with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment. If a background check is required for a position, it will be noted in the job posting.

Questions?

Please address any questions to hr@cca.edu.

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