Director of Student Success & Equity

Qjumpers; Hawke's Bay; On-site; NZD 142,000 - 177,000; Full time

Job summary

Eastern Institute of Technology in Napier, Hawke's Bay, seeks a permanent full-time Director Student Success commencing January 2027. The role provides strategic leadership, governance, and operational oversight for the student support ecosystem, ensuring all students access, participate, achieve and succeed in tertiary education.

The Director Student Success champions Te Tiriti o Waitangi, equity, inclusion, student wellbeing, and educational excellence.

Qualifications

• Postgraduate qualification in education or a related discipline.
• Evidence of continuing professional development in leadership and tertiary education.
• Experience leading diverse multidisciplinary teams, governance, risk management and regulatory compliance.
• Experience managing substantial budgets and resources.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and implementation of a comprehensive Student Success Strategy that supports institutional priorities, student achievement, retention, completion and graduate outcomes.
• Lead integrated support systems that improve student engagement, wellbeing, progression and success across EIT campuses and regional learning centres.
• Provide expert advice to the Executive Director and Executive Leadership Team on student success, pastoral care, equity, wellbeing and support matters.
• Lead, manage and support a high-performing team that delivers measurable impact for students, EIT and the communities we serve.
• Develop a constructive, engaged, safe and inclusive team environment that enables high performance.
• Provide strategic and operational oversight for student support services, including wellbeing, disability and cultural support, library and learning services, student accommodation, childcare services and healthcare services.
• Lead institution-wide initiatives that improve education and training outcomes for Māori, Pacific, disabled, youth and other priority student groups.
• Monitor student success data and implement interventions to improve retention, achievement, course completion and progression.
• Provide strategic leadership and institutional oversight of compliance with all applicable requirements of the Education (Pastoral Care of Tertiary and International Learners) Code of Practice 2021.
• Provide governance and operational oversight for institutional participation in Māori and Pasifika Trades Training (MPTT) consortium arrangements and Youth Guarantee funded provision.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Governance

Stakeholder Mgmt

Regulatory compliance

Budget management

People leadership

Tertiary education

Māori engagement

Education

Postgraduate qualification

Job description

Eastern Institute of Technology in Napier, Hawke's Bay, seeks a permanent full-time Director Student Success commencing January 2027. The role provides strategic leadership, governance, and operational oversight for the student support ecosystem, ensuring all students access, participate, achieve and succeed in tertiary education.

The Director Student Success champions Te Tiriti o Waitangi, equity, inclusion, student wellbeing, and educational excellence.