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The mission of the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences is the development of professional health care practitioners through innovation, individualized, and quality classroom, clinical, and distance education.

The Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) leads the teams and processes that drive enrollment growth at the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences (USAHS) through timely and effective demand generation, lead-to-enrollment conversion strategies, brand management, and messaging/storytelling.

The CMO must understand digital, social, mobile and emerging media as marketing vehicles and be experienced with integrating offline and online marketing efforts to drive brand preference and demand generation. The CMO will leverage USAHS’ sound digital foundation to drive high-quality lead volumes, track performance metrics, and maximize prospective/student engagement through each point in the decision lifecycle. The CMO will help to build an organizational culture that is grounded in analytics and insights to inform and support decisions, including those around media investments and performance, resource allocations, customer segmentation and marketing implementation.

• Create integrated marketing plans and execution strategies for driving student acquisition, enrollment, and engagement, and overall market share, ultimately growing revenue and EBITDA.
• Ability to build student personas and effectively target prospective students with brand/program messaging designed to generate enrollment interest and leads
• Experience with digital and organic channels; ability to build channel strategies appropriate for reaching the target and analyzing channel performance
• Identify opportunities to expand reach to target market through alumni, institutional and academic partnerships, feeder schools, clinical referrals, etc.
• Understanding of business cycles and related analytics required to determine performance to goals
• Possess the financial acumen necessary to determine required marketing investments and resulting ROI; manage the annual marketing budget for USAHS
• Select, direct and manage external agencies and consultants

• Oversee an integrated brand strategy based on key consumer insights and market research with a focus on generating measurable awareness, equity, preference and credibility for the brand.
• Develop brand/program messaging that will influence and inspire the target audience and build brand awareness for USAHS programs
• Effectively identify and communicate University and program differentiators to support USAHS premium position and create student preference for the University
• Develop social media content strategies that will engage prospective students, improve SEO and drive high-converting lead generation through organic channels
• Establish brand awareness/preference benchmarks and measure performance against them
• Serve as a brand advocate in the industry and marketplace

• Provide strategic oversight to USA.EDU website and related properties to align with premium brand position and provide an exceptional user experience
• Develop content, design and execution strategies that drive positive performance trends measured by KPIs that may include traffic, time on site, conversion on site, bounce rate, etc.
• Establish website maintenance protocol to include regular content audits and updates

• Lead a high-performing student recruitment and enrollment team, providing strategies and resources required to ensure lead-to-enrollment funnel conversion
• Provide leadership, direction, training and talent development support to ensure optimal enrollment team performance
• Establish expectations for funnel management and reporting, including predictive models that will help to identify issues, opportunities and areas for implementation improvement
• Develop strategic plan to maximize enrollments for all programs while planning for long-term growth
• In partnership with the enrollment management leadership team, analyze and provide insight of the enrollment pipeline in order to accurately predict future enrollments

• Invest in talent to build, lead, develop and motivate a best-in-class, accountable and results-oriented marketing (and enrollment) organization
• Develop strong cross-functional partnerships with program strategists, academic leadership, finance, admissions, student administration; drive business results and inspire a culture of transparency, collaboration, and accountability
• Serve as a member of the senior leadership team, bringing a view of the USAHS customers/students and marketplace in decisions

May perform other duties and responsibilities that management may deem necessary from time to time.

Reports to: University Chancellor

Positions Supervised: Sr. Director, Brand and Content, Sr. Director, Media and Digital Marketing, Vice President, Enrollment Management

To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Incumbents will be evaluated, in part, based on performance of each essential function. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• Brings functional breadth across brand management, advertising, media planning and execution, field/local marketing, and ideally partnership marketing.
• Track record of developing and implementing a consistent, scalable brand, marketing and media strategy that is innovative and disruptive and drives short- and long-term business results.
• Track record of developing and implementing 360-degree customer engagement plans that leverage disruptive (digital, mobile and social) and traditional channels (email, direct mail, outdoor, broadcast, print).
• Savvy in experiential and digital/social engagement vehicles.
• Proven ability to harness customer insights and market research to drive results, such as brand awareness, acquisition and sales, in a measurable way.
• Proven ability to assess talent, build talent capabilities, and coach/mentor and motivate/inspire a high-performing team.
• Experience effectively working across complex organizational and geographic boundaries at every level within the company.
• Proven ability to influence others through data, insights and leadership.

• Undergraduate degree is required; MBA is highly preferred.
• A minimum of 15 years of progressive experience in senior level marketing roles within best-in-class, complex multi-unit, customer-centric companies that offer products and/or services requiring deliberate and considered decision making by the customer.
• Significant experience with marketing automation and CRM software (i.e. Salesforce, Marketo, etc.)

Will require up to 30% travel to USAHS campuses in the US.

• Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Being Resilient - Rebounding from setbacks and adversity when facing difficult situations.
• Instills Trust - Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.
• Drives Results - Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
• Innovation - Creating new and better ways for the organization to be successful.
• Customer Focus - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
• Drives Engagement - Creating a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives.
• People Leadership - Leads by example when it comes to finding and developing talent, with a focus on talent acquisition strategies, setting performance targets that raises standards and development of high potential talent.

Work is performed primarily in a standard office environment but may involve exposure to moderate noise levels. Work involves operation of personal computer equipment for six to eight hours daily and includes physical demands associated with a traditional office setting, e.g., walking, standing, communicating, and other physical functions as necessary.