Student Life Coordinator: Eastern Cape (fixed term contract)

Catch; Oos-Kaap; On-site; ZAR 420,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

Catch is seeking a proactive Student Life coordinator to lead co-curricular planning, collaboration with academic stakeholders, and inclusive campus activities. You will drive engagement, coordinate with the Student Experience team, and shape campus events to align with institutional goals.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree and 2+ years in event management, with strong communication and budget oversight skills. This is an on-site position supporting campus life initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
• Minimum 2 years in event management.
• Experience in stakeholder management and budgeting.

Responsibilities

• Identify and plan student life activities to support objectives.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure inclusive student experiences.
• Develop and implement campus communications for events.
• Monitor budgets and report on expenses.

Skills

Communication skills

Training and Development

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

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, 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 collaboration with the Head: Student Experience, student experience, operations and 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 student receive an inclusive and comprehensive student/campus life experience.
• Collaborate with the Head: 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 awareness campaigns 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 reporting on student life, social, cultural, clubs, societies, associations, affiliations and interest trends and factors against establish success metrics

Competencies / Skills required:

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

Minimum Qualification Requirement:

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

Minimum Work Experience Requirement:

• 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.