Project & CRM Operations Specialist - Office of Communications for Enrollment Management (OCEM)
Marketing & Communications, Software Engineering, Operations, Data Science
Urbana, IL, USA
Posted on Oct 23, 2026
Duties and Responsibilities
Project Management & Coordination
- Manage project intake, ensuring requests include clear objectives, scope, audiences, deliverables, timelines, and other necessary information.
- Coordinate and track projects from intake through completion, maintaining accurate project status, milestones, deadlines, and deliverables.
- Route and prioritize work within established OCEM workflows and help ensure projects align with unit priorities and goals.
- Coordinate schedules, meetings, approvals, and other project needs with teammates and stakeholders.
- Identify potential delays, dependencies, or bottlenecks and escalate issues when needed.
- Close completed projects, ensuring final deliverables, results, and documentation are appropriately recorded and archived.
- Coordinate collection of project and campaign metrics and support regular reporting and sharing of results.
CRM & Slate Operations
- Build, test, and execute communications, events, forms, and other operational processes within Slate.
- Support audience management and segmentation, including queries and populations as appropriate.
- Review and test Slate communications and processes to ensure accuracy and proper functionality before launch.
- Maintain organized and consistent communications, templates, folders, events, and other assets within Slate.
- Troubleshoot routine Slate issues and coordinate resolution with teammates and stakeholders.
- Maintain documentation and follow established standards for CRM operations.
Purchasing, Vendor & Production Coordination
- Serve as the primary purchasing card holder for OCEM, making and documenting authorized purchases in accordance with university policies and procedures.
- Maintain accurate purchasing records, receipts, reconciliations, and supporting documentation.
- Coordinate with external vendors for printing, mailing, promotional materials, and other products and services.
- Manage quotes, specifications, schedules, proofs, deliverables, and other vendor-related details.
- Coordinate and provide on-site support for communications and multimedia productions, including scheduling, locations, equipment, setup and breakdown, transportation and handling of production gear, participant coordination, and other production needs.
- Attend multimedia shoots as needed to provide hands-on production and logistical support.
- Assist with identifying, scheduling, and coordinating students, faculty, staff, and other participants for photo and video productions.
- Track expenditures and support inventory management as needed.
Documentation & Information Management
- Serve as a steward of OCEM documentation centers, shared files, and other knowledge resources.
- Develop and maintain clear, intuitive organizational structures for files, documentation, templates, and shared resources.
- Establish and document conventions for file organization, naming, storage, archiving, and related practices.
- Regularly review and maintain shared documentation spaces to ensure information remains current, organized, accessible, and easy to navigate.
- Help teammates understand where information belongs, how resources are organized, and where authoritative information can be found.
- Archive or remove outdated and duplicate materials in accordance with applicable records-management practices.
Process Improvement & Operational Support
- Develop and maintain documentation for project workflows, Slate processes, purchasing procedures, vendor processes, and other recurring operations.
- Identify recurring issues, inefficiencies, and opportunities to improve workflows.
- Help establish and reinforce consistent project management and operational practices across OCEM.
- Collaborate with teammates to improve tools, processes, and systems that increase efficiency and reliability.
