Senior Student Recruitment Strategist

Victoria University of Wellington; Wellington; On-site; NZD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington is seeking a Senior Student Recruitment Adviser to join the Future Students team on a permanent, full-time contract. The role blends strategy, analysis, relationship management and hands-on delivery to drive recruitment from first interest to enrolment.

You will use market insight, recruitment data and faculty knowledge to identify priorities and deliver targeted recruitment activity that makes a difference within a faculty or recruitment

Qualifications

• Experience developing and delivering plans against clear objectives and outcomes.
• Confidence interpreting recruitment, pipeline, customer or similar data and turning it into practical priorities and actions.
• Experience managing or progressing leads, enquiries or customer pipelines, including effective follow-up.
• Ability to build trusted relationships, influence others and work constructively across different parts of a complex organisation.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to make complex information clear and relevant for different audiences.
• Experience designing and delivering targeted engagement, events or activity with a clear purpose and intended outcome.
• Experience using a CRM, maintaining good records, reporting on activity and using evidence to improve future performance.
• Relevant tertiary qualification.
• Knowledge of the domestic student recruitment lifecycle and the secondary school environment is desirable rather than essential.
• Experience in higher education or student recruitment would be valuable, but we are also interested in people who can bring relevant experience from areas such as recruitment, business development, marketing, account or relationship management, customer conversion, education or other environments where influencing decisions and progressing people through a journey are central to success.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver a focused recruitment plan for an assigned faculty or recruitment portfolio.
• Analyse enquiry, lead, application and other recruitment information to identify opportunities, risks and priorities.
• Provide specialist advice to faculty leaders and colleagues on student decision-making, programme positioning, recruitment activity and where effort will have the greatest value.
• Design, lead and contribute to targeted recruitment and conversion activity for priority programmes and student audiences.
• Provide credible, accurate programme and pathway advice to prospective students, whānau, schools and other influencers.
• Proactively progress priority leads and cohorts through the recruitment journey, working with colleagues to address barriers to application, offer acceptance and enrolment.
• Evaluate recruitment activity and turn results, feedback and market intelligence into practical recommendations for improvement.

Skills

CRM experience

Data analysis

Relationship management

Communication

Recruitment strategy

Education

Tertiary qualification

Job description

Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington is seeking a Senior Student Recruitment Adviser to join the Future Students team on a permanent, full-time contract. The role blends strategy, analysis, relationship management and hands-on delivery to drive recruitment from first interest to enrolment.

You will use market insight, recruitment data and faculty knowledge to identify priorities and deliver targeted recruitment activity that makes a difference within a faculty or recruitment