Student Life Coordinator (Maternity Cover) Fixed-term Contract

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

Job summary

An educational institution in KwaZulu-Natal is seeking a Student Life Coordinator for a maternity cover contract. This role involves planning and executing student life initiatives, developing communication strategies for campus activities, and managing budgets. Candidates should hold at least a Bachelor’s degree and ideally have experience in event and stakeholder management. The position aims to enhance student participation and satisfaction through diverse extracurricular offerings and effective communication.

Benefits

Competitive salary commensurate with experience

Qualifications

• Minimum of 1 year experience in event management, stakeholder management, and project management.
• Proven experience in co-curricular programme offerings and student governance.
• Occupational Health and Safety experience advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Identify and execute initiatives supporting student life.
• Develop and implement communication strategies for campus activities.
• Monitor budget expenditures against allocated budgets.
• Engage with stakeholders to enhance student life opportunities.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Stakeholder management

Event management

Project management

Training and Development

Education

Bachelor’s degree (NQF Level 7) or equivalent

Job description

Direct Reporting Line:

Head: Student Experience

Emerisconsolidates 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, Durban North Campus has a vacancy for a Student Life Coordinator(Maternity Cover) 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 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

• Preferably 1 year experience in event management, stakeholder management, and project 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 contacted 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.