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Open Date 09/01/2026 Requisition Number PRN46138B Job Title Search Engine Optimization Specialists Working Title Digital SEO Specialist Career Progression Track P00 Track Level P3 - Career FLSA Code Professional Patient Sensitive Job Code? No Standard Hours per Week 40 Full Time or Part Time? Full Time Shift Day Work Schedule Summary
Monday through Friday, 9:00 – 5:00 pm
VP Area President Department 00339 - Marketing & Communications Location Campus City Salt Lake City, UT Type of Recruitment External Posting Pay Rate Range $68,000 - $78,000 Close Date 11/26/2026 Priority Review Date (Note - Posting may close at any time) Job Summary
As an SEO Specialist, you will play a pivotal role on the University of Utah Marketing and Communication’s Digital Team, serving as the subject matter expert driving organic search visibility, technical site performance, and content discoverability across our university’s web ecosystem. Reporting directly to the Associate Director of Digital Research and Operations, you will work in direct, daily partnership on strategic search initiatives—aligning search engine optimization with broader marketing, web accessibility, and digital governance goals.
This role requires a balance of technical execution, SEO strategy and analytical insight. We are looking for a collaborative, proactive professional with strong hands-on SEO experience who thrives on solving technical web challenges and elevating university digital experiences.
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EQUIVALENCY STATEMENT: 1 year of higher education can be substituted for 1 year of directly related work experience (Example: bachelor’s degree = 4 years of directly related work experience).
Search Engine Optimization Specialist, III: Requires a bachelor’s (or equivalency) + 6 years or a master’s (or equivalency) + 4 years of directly related work experience.
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University of Utah Health is the Intermountain West’s only academic health care system, combining excellence in patient care, the latest in medical research, and teaching to provide leading-edge medicine in a caring and personal setting. The system provides care for Utahns and residents of five surrounding states in a referral area encompassing more than 10 percent of the continental United States.
Whether it’s for routine care or highly specialized treatment in orthopedics, stroke, ophthalmology, cancer, radiology, fertility, cardiology, genetic-related diseases, organ transplant, or many other areas of medicine, University of Utah Health offers the latest technology and advancements, including some services available nowhere else in the region.
As part of that system, University of Utah Health Hospitals and Clinics rely on more than 1,600 board-certified physicians who staff five University hospitals (University Hospital, Huntsman Cancer Hospital, Craig H. Neilsen Rehabilitation Hospital, University Orthopaedic Center, and the University Neuropsychiatric Institute); 12 community clinics; and several specialty centers including the John A. Moran Eye Center, Kathryn F. Kirk Center for Comprehensive Cancer Care and Women's Cancers, the Cardiovascular Center, the Clinical Neurosciences Center, and the Utah Diabetes Center.
University of Utah Health is consistently ranked among US News & World Report’s Best Hospitals, has ranked in the nation’s top 10 for quality health care among leading academic medical centers by Vizient Inc.,
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