Greenwood Asher & Associates Leading Chief Marketing Officer Search for the College of Charleston
June 29, 2026 – Miramar Beach, FL-based executive recruitment firm Greenwood Asher & Associates (GA&A) is currently seeking a chief marketing officer and vice president for marketing and communications for the College of Charleston. Kyle Pybus-Jerome and Jeremy Duff are leading the assignment.
The College of Charleston seeks a strategic and innovative marketing executive to lead an integrated marketing and communications enterprise that advances the College’s mission, vision, and strategic priorities. Reporting directly to the president and serving on the president’s cabinet, the CMO and VP provides executive leadership for the office of university marketing and communications. This role is responsible for strengthening the College’s brand, enhancing its national visibility, and ensuring consistent, high-impact engagement with internal and external audiences.
They will partner with academic and administrative leaders to align messaging and initiatives with institutional goals. The successful candidate will assess and enhance organizational structure, processes, and resources to build a modern, data-informed, and results-driven marketing and communications function.
For this role, candidates must have a minimum of 10 years progressive leadership experience in marketing, communications, or related fields. A bachelor’s degree in marketing, public relations, or a related field is preferred as well as a strong understanding of and experience with digital and traditional marketing, with a focus on measurable outcomes. Experience building or repositioning a brand and translating institutional values into a compelling narrative is also need along with demonstrated success leading integrated marketing and communications functions in complex organizations.
The College of Charleston is a public liberal arts and sciences university located in Charleston, South Carolina. Founded in 1770, the institution offers undergraduate and graduate programs across nine academic schools, including business, education, engineering, health sciences, humanities, languages, and natural and environmental sciences. The university enrolls about 11,700 students and combines a historic urban campus with a broad range of academic, research, and student-life opportunities.
Greenwood Asher & Associates is an executive search firm with a diverse consulting team and extensive experience in executive search, consulting, and training for education markets including elementary, secondary, higher education, university systems, campuses and non-profit organizations including associations, service, and cultural institutions. The firm was acquired in 2020 by Kelly Education, a global leader in workforce management solutions offering staffing services to top companies.
Ms. Pybus-Jerome serves as a senior executive search consultant at GA&A, where she exemplifies a blend of executive search proficiency and higher education industry acumen. With a dedication to fostering client-focused solutions and achieving impactful search outcomes, she brings a track record of cultivating and maintaining process integrity. Her recruitment experience focuses on university-wide executive administration in academic affairs, advancement, finance and administration, research & innovation, and student affairs, as well as deanships within business, arts & sciences, education, and honors colleges. Ms. Pybus-Jerome’s prior experience spans over 15 years in higher education administration, experiencing the search process from the clients’ point of view while leading executive-level search initiatives for Central Michigan University.
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As vice president of executive search, Mr. Duff brings the knowledge and experience of leading hundreds of high-profile executive level searches in the U.S. and worldwide in the private and public sectors. He previously served as managing director for the University of Virginia’s executive search group within the office of the president. In this role, he conducted senior leadership searches for the university and executive searches for university foundations. Mr. Duff also led the creation of the University of Virginia’s talent recruitment operation and served as a principal with DHR Global.
University of Cincinnati Search
Greenwood Asher & Associates recently assisted the University of Cincinnati (UC) in the recruitment of Rudolph Buchheit as executive vice president for academic affairs and provost. Andriel Dees and Julie Schrodt led the assignment for the search firm. His selection follows a national search led by a dedicated search committee that was informed by broad campus engagement.
“I am grateful to the members of the search committee and to the many faculty, staff and students who participated in this vital process,” said Neville Pinto, president of UC. “Dr. Buchheit brings a thoughtful, collaborative leadership style and a deep understanding of the opportunities and responsibilities of an R1 public research university. His experience strengthening academic programs, supporting faculty success and expanding research and external partnerships will help us continue to build momentum across the university.”
Dr. Buchheit comes to UC from the University of Kentucky, where he has served as dean of the college of engineering since 2018. In that role, he has led a comprehensive academic and administrative portfolio that includes faculty affairs, academic programs, research and graduate education, budget and facilities, as well as advancement and external partnerships.
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