Student Life Coordinator

ADvTECH; KwaZulu-Natal; On-site; ZAR 200 000 - 300 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading educational institution in KwaZulu-Natal seeks a Student Life Coordinator. The role involves planning and executing campus activities, developing communication strategies, and managing budgets. Candidates should have a Bachelor’s degree and at least 2 years of event management experience. Key responsibilities also include fostering student engagement and reporting on participation trends. This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to a vibrant student life environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years of experience in event management, stakeholder management, and project management.
• Minimum of 1 year of budget management experience.
• Minimum of 1 year of risk assessment and management experience.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to extracurricular and co-curricular campus activities.
• Develop and implement communication strategies for campus activities.
• Monitor budget expenditures and assure budgetary integrity.
• Report on student life trends against success metrics.

Skills

Excellent Communication skills

Event management

Stakeholder management

Project management

Education

Bachelor’s degree (NQF Level 7) in education, communication psychology or business

Job description

Direct Reporting Line

Head: Student Experience

Emeris consolidates resources and expertise from IIE Varsity College, IIE MSA, IIE‑Vega School, and IIE School of Hospitality & Service Management, with a unified approach ensuring a consistent standard of excellence in teaching, learning, and student support.

Student Life Coordinator

Emeris, Pietermaritzburg Campus has a vacancy allocating a Student Life Coordinator.

Duties and Responsibilities

Student Life

• Contributes to the identification of co‑curricular, extracurricular, and meta‑curricular campus activities, with final decisions made by the line manager, and takes the lead in planning and executing approved initiatives that support the Institution’s strategic objectives.
• Identifies and selects of student life: social and cultural groups ว clubs, associations and affiliation groups '' and services and applies insights to improve student participation, sustainability and longevity.
• Plans and executes student life: social, cultural groups, clubs, associations, affiliation, and interest groups and services and applies insights to improve student participation, sustainability and longevity.
• In prepping the Head: Student Experience, student experience, operations an academic portfolios ensures the campus calendar of events reflects equitable academic and non‑academic offerings on the campus calendar.
• Identify and analyze current and potential non‑curricular participation initiatives.
• Work with the campus Student Life Squad to ensure students receive an inclusive and comprehensive student/campus life experience.
• Collaborate with the Head Cash Student Experience and academic stakeholders to co‑design and deliver inclusive student life initiatives such as clubs, societies, and affiliation groups that support both academic goals and a sense of belonging. These initiatives are guided by participation insights, align with the institutional calendar, and are designed for long‑term relevance and impact.
• Ensures non‑curricular offerings uphold the Combined Institution/University commitments to equality, diversity and inclusion.
• Support the Manager: Student Life with interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary projects, events and activities.
• Support the Head: Student Experience with interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary projects, events and activities.
• Engage with external stakeholders, networks and partners (both current and potential) in order to enhance opportunities and pathways for engagement of social, cultural, clubs, societies, associations and interest groups.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure successful event planning and execution.

Awareness and Communication

• In collaboration with the line manager, develops, contributes, and implements effective communication strategies to promote campus activities, events, and opportunities, with the aim of maximizing awareness and participation.
• Brief campus staff and external services providers on events. This includes but is not limited to photographers, printers, sound technicians, venue providers.
• Utilize omnichannel communication platforms, to promote, maintain and market student life: social, cultural, clubs, societies, associations and interest groups.
• Plan and develop multimedia communication elements for usage on omnichannel communication platforms.
• Support internal roll out of communication and comma awareness ясно campaigns्ध and elements.
• Liaise with national marketing and communications teams to support brand exposure targets.
• Support and ensure student awareness and communication elements are brand identity aligned.

Budget Management

• With the support of the Head – Student Experience, monitoring expenditures compared to budgets and taking needed corrective action to assure budgetary integrity.

Reporting and Advocacy

• Monitor and report on student life, social, cultural, clubs, societies, associations, affiliations and interest trends and وارد against established success metrics.

Competencies required

• Excellent Communication skills with the ability to communicate to a variety of audiences.
• Training and Development

Minimum Qualification Requirements

• Minimum of Bachelor’s degree (NQF Level 7) or equivalent in areas such as education, communication psychology or business.

Minimum Work Experience Requirements

• Minimum of 2 years event management, stakeholder management and Project management experience.
• Minimum of 1 year Budget management experience.
• Minimum of 1 year risk assessment and management experience.

Ideal Work Experience

• Proven experience in co‑curricular programme offerings and student governance.
• Occupational Health and Safety experience advantageous.
• Experience in communication elements development and execution.

Salary

• Competitive salary commensurate with experience.

Application Response

• Due to the high volume of CVs received, please note that personal contact with all applicants may not be feasible. Only candidates whose qualifications and skills closely align with the position requirements will be البريط taken for interviews.

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Emeris is an Equal Opportunity Employer. However, preference may be given to previously underrepresented groups in accordance with the South African Employment Equity Act. The company reserves the right to close or place the vacancy on hold at any time, without prior notice.