The Marketing Department at the School of Continuing Education is seeking an outgoing, self-motivated, hard-working UWM student with good customer service and organizational skills. This fast-paced department serves the school’s programming areas by providing marketing strategy, campaign planning and print and digital communication design and production to promote the School’s 1,000 annual noncredit, select credit and certificate programs. The School of Continuing Education is located in the Plankinton Building at 161 W. Wisconsin Ave., in downtown Milwaukee.

 

You will work closely with marketing team members and program managers to ensure the smooth processing and administration of marketing projects through the department. Support various aspects of department administration and operations. Provide friendly, helpful, and responsive service to internal and external customers. Responsibilities include other duties as assigned, such as marketing tracking, preparing email marketing reports, assisting during client events, website and social media assistance, developing/organizing marketing copy for brochures, emails, etc. The Marketing Specialist(s) supervise this position.

 

·        Good customer service skills

·        Good written and verbal communication skills

·        Demonstrated organizational skills and ability to multi-task and meet deadlines

·        Willingness to learn and perform a wide and changing variety of tasks

·        Working knowledge of Microsoft Suite: Word, Access, Excel

·        Accurate and fast data processing skills

·        Motivation and ability to work within a cooperative, self-directed, fast-paced workgroup

 

Other desirable experience and skills:

·        Knowledge of marketing, copywriting and/or basic graphic design principles

·        Social media skills and knowledge of trends

·        Working toward a degree in marketing, journalism, PR, communication or similar field

·        Possible preference given to applicants with Work Study

 

·        Approximately 20 hours per week as determined by department workload

·        $9/hour

·        Work study is accepted