Content and Communications Specialist

Job TitleContent and Communications Specialist
Job CategoryM&P - AAPS
Job ProfileAAPS Salaried - Marketing and Sales, Level B
Job Family GroupStaff - Non Union
DepartmentContent Strategy | Recruitment and Marketing Support | International Student Initiative
Compensation Range$7,158.42 - $10,292.25 CAD Monthly
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Job End Date
Ongoing
Posting End DateNovember 4, 2026
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date.
Please submit both a cover letter and a resume as part of your application.
At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.
Job Description
The Content and Communications Specialist supports UBC’s undergraduate recruitment process by cultivating prospective student engagement through email and messaging campaigns, by identifying audience segments for nurturing, and by planning customer (student) journeys in UBC’s Customer Relationship Manager (CRM) system. The Content and Communications Specialist is responsible for developing and optimizing CRM campaigns in order to increase participation and engagement rates among prospective undergraduate student with UBC. The role assists in the development and implementation of new email marketing initiatives, and ensures these are repeatable, scalable, and extensible across other marketing channels (such as SMS) as technologies emerge. The role also prepares reports on all campaign activities. The Content and Communications Specialist will bring knowledge of best practices to the work, continually improving and optimizing campaigns, as well as developing strategies for segmentation and personalization. Key to this role is delivering timely and relevant content to students throughout the recruitment lifecycle from prospect, applicant, to UBC student. The role is integral to the achievement of the University’s undergraduate enrolment objectives for UBC’s Vancouver and Okanagan campuses.
Organizational Status
Reports to the Manager, UX and Content Strategy, and works within an integrated, cross-channel digital team. Works closely and collaboratively with the Manager, International Student Recruitment Technologies. Close consultation and collaboration with the international and domestic recruitment teams, as well as other key UBC stakeholders is critical to success of this position.
Work Performed
Marketing Automation and Email Campaign Planning, Coordination, and Implementation
Plays a key role in the creation of the overall strategic email marketing and communications plan, shaping the content and campaign calendar within the cross-channel, integrated approach of the Recruitment Marketing and Prospective Student Engagement team.
Balances the creation and optimization of multiple campaigns at once.
Uses effective stakeholder management and consensus-building skills to set campaign goals and objectives among competing internal priorities. Liaises with internal stakeholders to achieve reachable targets, and to measure and report on target and goal success.
Uses best practices to drive student engagement with email and other marketing channel campaigns, recruitment events, and other touchpoints available to our audience.
Creates scalable processes that ensure best practices in campaign set-up, conversion, lead generation and nurture, engagement monitoring, and data reporting.
Takes on an advocacy role for best practices, for a student-centred approach to email/SMS marketing and communications, for adherence to brand, and for a consistent and unified approach to messaging.
Develops and implements comprehensive nurture-campaign plans for emails, e-newsletters and SMS channels. Pilots new approaches and tactics to ensure the recruitment teams are supported by continually improving campaigns and email communications.
Schedules, coordinates, and executes all email campaigns (including lifecycle trigger programs, promotional campaign, transactional emails, and other) to ensure students receive messaging and information on time and when it is most relevant and meaningful to them. Some of this work is deadline-driven and time-sensitive.
In consultation with the Manager, International Student Recruitment Technologies and other key stakeholders, identifies market/audience segments to target in campaigns. Ensures accuracy of target markets/audiences (quality control of recipient lists and campaign workflows).
Develops, updates, and maintains documentation for campaign flows and roadmaps to optimize campaigns and deepen engagement.
A/B tests and continually measures performance of targeted campaigns, conversions, and nurture/engagement goals.
Increases participation in on-campus, off-campus, and virtual events from CRM campaigns.
Monitors subscriber list health, including list effectiveness and opt-out rates.
Content Creation and Management
Creates high-quality digital campaign content (from text and images to email templates and designs).
Develops HTML email template layout/designs, visual assets, and styles, under broad guidelines established by the RMPSE team, and ensures adherence to the over-arching UBC brand.
Develops compelling content, imagery, embedded visual assets, calls-to-action, and design elements for all campaigns.
Implements and maintains an editorial calendar for all automation and CRM campaigns.
Ensures all emails and messaging sent through the CRM meet Canada s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL), and meet UBC’s access and privacy policies to ensure compliance with BC’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA).
Ensures all CRM campaign activity is tracked and analyzed (including making sure that all hyperlinks are tracked for analytics and reporting).
Ensures that content and messaging arcs in CRM campaigns are logical, seamless, and progressive, and that students do not receive duplicate, conflicting, or confusing content. All CRM campaigns and messaging must align with the reputation of the University and help reinforce a sense of credibility and authenticity among students.
Ensures that messaging and content respects the cultural, linguistic, or political sensibilities of our diverse prospective student audience.
Develops clear and unique value propositions for campaigns.
Campaign Analysis and Success Reporting
Measures results of all email and CRM campaigns (from the effectiveness of overall campaigns to the effectiveness of individual calls-to- action, and everything in between) in order to optimize nurture campaign workflows, improve student engagement with a variety of recruitment touchpoints, and help students achieve their UBC tasks/objectives.
Works to decrease unsubscribe rates while increasing campaign reach.
Monitors and tracks email performance metrics, and analyzes campaign performance.
Improves open rates, click-through rates, and conversion rates from email and CRM campaigns, especially year over year.
Based on analysis, provides recommendations for improved performance and efficiencies, and other optimization efforts.
Maintains metrics reports on marketing automation and campaign output to measure effectiveness and business impact, and report out to recruitment teams and key UBC stakeholders.
Consequence of Error/Judgement
The quality of work and decisions of the Content and Communications Specialist will have an impact on the goals and overall efficacy of the recruitment teams ability to support faculties enrolment objectives. The consequence of error associated with this position is serious in that a mistake could have a negative impact on the perceptions prospective students and applicants have of the University, its faculties, and its programs. Incorrect or erroneous information delivered through emails and CRM campaigns could mislead or misinform students and deter them from applying to UBC. Poor performance in this role could ultimately reflect negatively on UBC’s reputation as one of Canada’s leading universities.
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