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Senior Strategic Leader, Armed Forces Recruitment

EAB (Education Advisory Board)
Washington, DC Full Time
POSTED ON 1/16/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/3/2025

Senior Strategic Leader, Armed Forces Recruitment

Location : Washington, D.C.

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Number : 600456

Job Category : Sales

Job Department : Enrollment Services

Job Family : Strategic Leadership

Job Type : Full Time

Level : Director

At EAB, our mission is to make education smarter and our communities stronger. We work with more than 2,800 institutions to drive transformative change through data-driven insights and best-in-class capabilities. From kindergarten to college to career, EAB partners with leaders and practitioners to accelerate progress and drive results across enrollment, student success, institutional strategy, data analytics, and advancement.

The Role in Brief :

The Senior Strategic Leader operates as the account executive for EAB armed forces recruitment partners (clients). This hire will work directly with assigned partners as their most critical EAB point of contact to oversee all components of their recruitment marketing partnership with EAB. Core duties include executive relationship management, campaign strategy and oversight (including product portfolio optimization), renewal and cross-selling, and internal leadership. The Senior Strategic Leader is supported by an account manager who focuses on campaign execution and relationship management, as well as by a team of creative and technical team members who support campaign creation and tracking.

Primary Responsibilities :

  • Executive Relationship Management

Establish strong relationships and trust with partners

  • Lead regular meetings and conference calls with partners
  • Deliver outstanding service and superior guidance and counsel
  • Collaborate and listen, building a customized and highly synergistic partnership
  • Campaign Strategy and Oversight
  • Develop a deep understanding of each partner’s goals, opportunities, and weaknesses

  • Advise partners on product optimization, strategic targeting, and creative execution
  • Ensure internal teams map strategies to partner goals and preferences
  • Systematically measure campaigns to identify opportunities and demonstrate effectiveness
  • Renewal Success
  • Develop thriving, successful, long-term partnerships

  • Properly align products, price, and strategy pillars to partner goals
  • Drive partnership growth through consultative processes and strategy
  • Meet overall renewal rate targets in support of larger business objectives
  • Mentor and develop an account manager assigned to core team
  • Serve as a dynamic liaison between partners and in-house resources
  • Connect partner goals and mission back to EAB’s mission
  • Basic Qualifications :

  • 5 years’ experience in consultative, strategic, leadership positions managing accounts and / or relationships with key decision makers
  • Experience leading high-performing teams, coaching, and mentoring
  • Experience aligning strategic insights and solutions to client or partner goals
  • Ability to present to clients and colleagues EAB's commitment to forward-leaning, innovative strategies that successfully achieve their desired outcomes
  • Proven relationship building skills, collaboration / teamwork skills, and ability to influence for win-win outcomes
  • Relevant professional experience in armed forces marketing or recruitment
  • For Richmond, VA or Washington, DC based candidates - travel up to 20% (up to 30% travel for candidates based remotely)
  • Valid driver's license
  • Ideal Qualifications :

  • 7 years’ experience in consultative, strategic, leadership positions managing accounts and / or relationships with key decision makers
  • EAB institutional knowledge and experience
  • Direct response marketing experience
  • Ability to approach situations in an entrepreneurial way and find opportunity for improvement / change
  • Ability to work independently and in a team environment and to plan, organize, set, and achieve priorities
  • Passion for both client success and tackling new and emerging opportunities
  • Proficient with Microsoft Office suite
  • Commitment to valuing diversity, practicing inclusive behaviors, and contributing to an equitable working and continual learning environment in support of EAB’s DE&I Promise
  • Compensation :

    The anticipated starting salary (base) range for this role is $75,000 - $115,000 per year. Actual salary varies due to factors that may include but not be limited to relevant experience, skills, and location. At EAB, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the starting salary range for their role. This hire will additionally be eligible for discretionary bonus or incentive compensation.

    This opening is not eligible for visa sponsorship at this time; EAB will thus consider candidates who possess U.S. work authorization that does not require employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future.

    At EAB, we believe that to fulfill our mission to “make education smarter and our communities stronger” we need team members who bring a diversity of perspectives to the table and are committed to fostering a workplace where each team member is valued, respected and heard.

    EAB is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we make employment decisions on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need. We don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law.

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    Salary : $75,000 - $115,000

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