Senior Student Recruitment Strategist

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

Job summary

Victoria University of Wellington is recruiting a Senior Student Recruitment Adviser to join the Future Students team on a permanent, full‑time basis. This senior role blends strategy, analysis and hands‑on delivery to attract and enrol prospective students.

You'll use market insight, recruitment data and faculty knowledge to identify priorities, deliver targeted activity, and support students from first interest through to enrolment.

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.

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

Data analysis

Relationship management

Communication skills

CRM experience

Strategy and planning

Education

Relevant tertiary qualification

Job description

Victoria University of Wellington is recruiting a Senior Student Recruitment Adviser to join the Future Students team on a permanent, full‑time basis. This senior role blends strategy, analysis and hands‑on delivery to attract and enrol prospective students.

You'll use market insight, recruitment data and faculty knowledge to identify priorities, deliver targeted activity, and support students from first interest through to enrolment.