Collegis Education is a marketing and technology education solutions company that offers industry-leading services for colleges and universities of every size in every sector. Using a proactive and data-driven approach, Collegis Education empowers institutions to make a broader impact by providing insights that help grow enrollments, improve student outcomes and optimize expenses. With several decades of experience working within the higher education industry, the team at Collegis Education was founded within the walls of a college and expanded to help change more lives through education. Currently, the infrastructures established by Collegis Education support more than 40,000 students nationwide. For more information about Collegis Education, please visit www.CollegisEducation.com.

The Director of Partner Solutions manages and oversees the delivery of our Enrollment Growth Management service line to our external client base. As a marketing and technology services company, Collegis Education serves clients in higher education and candidates will be provided broad exposure to education management. The Director of Partner Services will be responsible for directing day-to-day communication with key external stakeholders as well as effectively leveraging internal cross-functional teams and resources to ensure our clients’ needs and objectives are being met.

This position is responsible for building and nurturing long-term, strategic relationships with our clients through the development and execution of marketing and technology strategies to support new and current enrollment initiatives. This includes the ability to define market positioning by assessing client strengths against the competitive environment, understand the client’s brand and institutional values, and bring these insights to internal leaders to drive results across marketing channels.

Partner Success

• Lead the development of client strategy and tactics to achieve performance objectives. This will include supporting the client's strategies as well as developing and recommending strategies to the client.
• Provide clear direction to internal teams (creative, media, analytics, and operations) on client priorities, objectives and expectations to ensure projects are appropriately scoped and executed
• Implement tactics and manage the delivery and support teams to execute projects with precision, speed, and efficiency.
• Facilitate the annual budgeting and planning cycle

Partner Satisfaction

• Become immersed in the client organization including strong alignment with institutional brand, value propositions, and culture
• Manage on-going communications and build internal relationships through collaboration with client leadership, key departments, and stakeholders
• Provide leadership and direction to the account team to navigate client needs, objectives, and challenges and proactively identify opportunities to meet and exceed client goals

Partner Evolution

• Provide thought leadership to ensure the account team maintains a high level of market curiosity and knowledge for continued idea generation and exploration to help the client stay ahead of the market
• Proactively update and inform client on competitive market insights, education and enrollment trends, and innovations in marketing and student recruitment

• At least 5 years of demonstrated success in agency or client-facing leadership, prior experience in the education sector is a bonus
• Proven ability to manage a complex and high profile client within a matrix environment
• High level of knowledge and experience with digital marketing channel strategy specifically with SEM, SEO, and student engagement
• Proven ability to lead internal creative, marketing, and service resources to execute on a client's objectives
• Proficiency with reporting and data-driven decision-making
• Prior success developing and leading high-performance teams

Education, Certifications and Licensures:

• Minimum of a BA/BS in marketing, communications, business or a related field of study

Collegis Education is committed to the policy that all persons shall have equal access to its programs, facilities, and employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, disability, public assistance status, veteran status, or sexual orientation.