Student Life Coordinator (Fixed Term Contract)

Emeris; Durban; On-site; ZAR 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Emeris Westville seeks a Student Life Coordinator on a fixed term contract to lead planning and execution of campus student life initiatives and events. You will collaborate with the Head: Student Experience and academic stakeholders to ensure inclusive and diverse offerings on the campus calendar.

The role involves engaging with internal and external partners, coordinating communications, managing budgets, and supporting cross-disciplinary projects with a focus on student participation and

Qualifications

• 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.
• Minimum of 2 years' event management, stakeholder management and project management experience, preferably within a higher education or similar environment.

Responsibilities

• Contributes to identification and planning of co-curricular, extracurricular, and meta-curricular campus activities and executes approved initiatives.
• Identifies student life groups and services to improve participation and longevity.
• Plans and executes student life activities and aligns with the institutional calendar.
• Collaborates with the Head: Student Experience and academic portfolios to reflect equitable offerings on the campus calendar.
• Engages with external stakeholders to enhance engagement opportunities for student life groups.
• Supports the Manager/Head with interdisciplinary projects, events and activities.
• Develops and implements communication strategies to promote campus activities and opportunities.
• Plans multimedia communication elements for omnichannel use.
• Monitors expenditures and ensures budgetary integrity.

Skills

Excellent communication

Stakeholder management

Project management

Event management

Budget management

Risk assessment

Education

Bachelor’s degree (NQF 7) in education/communication/psychology/business

Job description

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.

Emeris Westville has a vacancy for a Student Life Coordinator (Fixed Term Contract).

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
• Excellent Communication skills with the ability to communicate to a variety of audiences.
• Training and Development
• 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
• Minimum of 2 years' event management, stakeholder management and project management experience, preferably within a higher education or similar environment.

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
• Experience planning, coordinating and delivering student events, campus activations or large-scale events will be advantageous.
• Competitive salary commensurate with experience.
• Lifelong learning opportunities through LinkedIn Learning subscriptions.
• Staff and family discounts on educational programs within our brand portfolio.
• Incentive bonus structure based on performance and achievement of goals.
• Provident fund contributions, including Death & Funeral Cover, to support your financial well-being and future planning.
• Birthday vouchers to celebrate your special day.
• Competitive annual leave allowance for well-deserved time off and rejuvenation.

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.