Student Life Coordinator

Direct Reporting Line:

Head:
Student Experience

• 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 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.

• 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.

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

• Monitor and reporting on student life, social, cultural, clubs, societies, associations, affiliations and interest trends and factors against established 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,…