Viking Union Marketing Coordinator

at  Western Washington University

Position Title

Viking Union Marketing Coordinator
About the University
Western Washington University, with over 15,000 students in seven colleges and the graduate school, is nationally recognized for its educational programs, students and faculty. The campus is located in Bellingham, Washington, a coastal community of 90,000 overlooking Bellingham Bay, the San Juan Islands and the North Cascades Mountain range. The city lies 90 miles north of Seattle and 60 miles south of Vancouver, British Columbia. Western is the highest-ranking public, master’s-granting university in the Pacific Northwest, according to the 2024 U.S. News & World Report rankings.
Western Washington University is committed to achieving excellence through advancing inclusive success, increasing our Washington impact, and focusing on transformational education grounded in the liberal arts and sciences and based on innovative scholarship, research, and creative activity. Western’s greatest strength is the outstanding students, faculty, staff, and alumni/ae who make up its community. Western supports an inclusive governance structure for all and provides a learning and working environment in which everyone can thrive. In pursuit of this excellence, individual employees are expected to establish and maintain productive and effective inclusive working relationships amongst diverse populations including staff, faculty, administration, student, and external constituents. Further, individual employees are expected to have the ability to operationalize sustainability concepts (economic, societal, environmental) into all aspects of performing their job duties.
About the Department

The Viking Union Department supports Western’s mission, which states that together with our students, staff, and faculty, we are committed to making a positive impact in the state and the world with a shared focus on academic excellence and inclusive achievement. We encourage applications from women, people of color, people with disabilities, veterans, and other candidates from underrepresented backgrounds and with diverse experiences interested in this opportunity.
The Viking Union welcomes and engages students, faculty, staff, and guests in building a diverse community.
We continually strive to enhance the Western experience through supporting student leadership, campus involvement, creative expression, and by providing services and events in our venues.
About the Position
This position leads the Viking Union (VU) Organization’s marketing and communication functions including an organizational marketing program and Information/Welcome service desks. This includes working with teams to develop and convey an engaging, positive, and welcoming messages and experiences for our diverse university community about our Student Union facilities and Student Involvement programs. The position includes supervising one student marketing position as well as the Viking Union’s Information Desk.

The State HR classification for this position is Communications Consultant 2.

• Marketing Coordination and LeadershipProvides leadership to Viking Union Organizations marketing and communication efforts, collaborating closely with Student Involvement Staff, VU IT and VU Operations Staff.
• Lead regular Marketing Team meetings including members from across the VU Organization.
• Coordinates with AS Publicity Center, communications office, and other building partners in a collective effort to market our facilities and the programs here.
• Works with Marketing Team to develop and manage departmental social media content, messaging, campaigns, and experiential marketing activities.

• Liaison with WWU’s Communications, social media, and Design, and Copy services teams.

• • Participate in professional development regarding access, diversity, equity, and inclusion that advances abilities to provide positive, caring, and culturally responsive communications.

Please refer the Job description for details