Student Life Coordinator

Direct Reporting Line:
Head: Student Experience

Varsity College is an educational brand of The Independent Institute of Education (The IIE). The IIE enjoys the reputation of being at the forefront of private higher education in South Africa and is registered with the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) to provide higher education qualifications accredited by the Council on Higher Education (CHE).

The IIE's Varsity College, Cape Town Campus has a vacancy for 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, 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.
• Works with internal academic stakeholders to improve participation opportunities commensurate with faculty goals and objectives.
• 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.
• Evaluates and mitigates health, safety and risk protocols and procedures against campus events, offerings, and programmes.
• 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.
• Identify, recruit and onboard the campus Student Life Squad to ensure student receive an inclusive and comprehensive student/campus life experience.
• Provides mentorship and leadership opportunities for the campus Student Life Squad such as workshops, developmental training and events.
• 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

• Analyzing the resources needed to fulfil social, cultural, clubs, societies, associations, and interest group support obligations.
• Monitoring expenditures compared to budgets and taking needed corrective action to assure budgetary integrity

Reporting and Advocacy

• In collaboration with the Head: Student Experience ensures sustainable student representation and governance of student life: social, cultural, clubs, societies and association student leaders on student representative councils.
• Monitor and reporting on student life, social, cultural, clubs, societies, associations, affiliations and interest trends and factors against establish 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.

Benefits:

• 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.

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.

Technical Support:

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The IIE Varsity College, IIE Vega and IIE MSA are 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.