Position Overview: Leads the university’s web strategy to support institutional priorities, including recruitment and enrollment growth; oversees the structure, navigation, and content strategy for key web priorities, ensuring alignment with brand voice, accessibility standards, and user experience best practices; develops and implements governance policies, optimizing content for search engines and conversion; collaborates with campus partners across marketing, IT, admissions, and academic units; defines and tracks key performance indicators for web effectiveness, leveraging analytics tools to provide insights and data-informed improvements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develops and implements a comprehensive web strategy that supports university priorities, including recruitment and enrollment growth; partners with enrollment marketing teams to align web content and campaigns with lead generation and conversion goals; leads web governance efforts, including establishing content standards and best practices across colleges and departments; and collaborates with marketing, IT, admissions, financial aid, housing & dining and colleges to ensure the website supports both marketing and functional needs.
• Oversees the structure, navigation and content strategy for key web properties, ensuring clarity, consistency and alignment with brand voice; writes, edits and optimizes web content for both users and search engines to improve visibility, relevance and engagement; partners with content creators and editors to ensure pages are optimized for storytelling, artificial intelligence, conversion and accessibility (WCAG compliance); conducts periodic content audits and improvement initiatives; and uses user research, testing and analytics to drive data-informed UX improvements.
• Defines key performance indicators (KPIs) for web effectiveness, including traffic, engagement and conversion metrics; uses analytics tools (e.g. Google Analytics, Tag Manager, Siteimprove, Hotjar) to track user behavior and site performance; reports insights to leadership and campus partners; recommends data-driven improvements; and provides resources and support to campus web editors.

Required Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, web design, information technology or related field; at least three years of experience in web strategy, digital marketing, CX/UX or related field; experience managing large, complex websites; proficiency in SEO, LLMs/AI principles and GA4/analytics platforms; strong understanding of accessibility and usability best practices; and excellent project management, writing/editing, communication and collaboration skills required.

Preferred Qualifications: Experience managing websites in higher education; experience with Drupal or other enterprise-level CMS; and demonstrated experience with higher education marketing or enrollment strategy preferred. 

Application Instructions: All application materials received by January 11, 2026, will be given full consideration. To apply for this position, please click on “Apply” and complete the Employment Application. The following materials must be attached when applying:
1) Resume
2) Cover Letter

You will be presented with the opportunity to attach multiple documents when completing the application. Before submitting your online job application, ensure that ALL required materials listed above have been uploaded. Once your job application has been submitted, you cannot make changes. If you have questions regarding this application process, please email careers-support@uni.edu or call 319-273-2422.

UNI is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. The University encourages applications from persons of color, women, individuals living with disabilities, and protected veterans. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, creed, disability, ethnicity, genetic information, marital status, national origin, political affiliation, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or on any other basis protected by federal and/or state law.

The University offers an excellent benefits package including a vacation plan, employer sponsored retirement plans, health and dental insurance, and life and disability insurance. Benefits package details can be viewed at https://careers.uni.edu/benefits. Application materials received by 01/11/2026 will be given first consideration. For more information or to apply, visit https://careers.uni.edu/. Criminal and other relevant background checks required. UNI is a tobacco free campus.