Enrollment, Advertising, & Communications Director

The Director of Enrollment, Advertising, & Communications at St. Joseph is responsible for developing and implementing comprehensive, action-oriented enrollment strategies and tactics that will position St. Joseph Catholic STEM School as the elementary and middle school of choice for greater Carver County. The Director oversees recruitment, selection, enrollment, and retention of students while simultaneously advertising and marketing our school. The Director will have the responsibility for telling our story to all current and potential constituents. The Director is a member of the Head of School’s leadership team and works collaboratively with senior leadership, the school board, faculty, and staff.

St. Joseph Catholic STEM School in Waconia, MN is an innovative and exciting Catholic School in the SW metro of the Twin Cities. St. Joseph Catholic STEM School has been honored with 10 “best of class” awards over the past 6-years!

Our motto is, “Take a closer step to heaven, and don’t go alone.”  We actively live out our faith every day in every way!

It is important that the Enrollment, Advertising & Marketing Director becomes one of the integral faces of the school.

The Director should have skills to anticipate and adopt innovations in business-building digital and technology applications including the impact of emerging technical skills, as well as knowledge and capabilities that benefit personal and school performance.

Qualifications and Skills

• College degree in Marketing and Communications or Business degree and/or experience growing and operating a successful business
• Ability to identify and improve processes necessary to get work done effectively and efficiently
• Collaborator – build and use partnerships to meet shared objectives.
• Develop and deliver multi-mode communications that convey clear understanding of the needs of different audiences.
• Ability to make sense of complex high quantity information
• Ability to plan and prioritize work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals
• Drive to consistently achieve results.
• Take on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency and enthusiasm
• Ability to build and maintain positive relationships with many constituents.
• Ability to appreciate and communicate a passion for Catholic elementary education.
• The ability to use social media as tool to market, advertise and keep our constituents connected to our school events and happenings.
• Demonstrated leadership and effectiveness in developing and accomplishing organizational goals.

• Ability to build a team, effectively recruit and manage volunteers.
• Superior communication skills, ability to conceptualize and execute strategic plans, the ability to interact confidently, confidentially, and effectively with school staff, students, donors, trustees (board members), school administration, the media and alumni.

Interested and qualified candidates should send a resume', letter of interest, and 3 reference letters to Deacon Bruce Richards at brichards@stjosephwaconia.org