Senior Portfolio Adviser

• Are you an audience-focused communications, marketing, or engagement professional who can translate insight into action?
•  Can you bring people together around a shared goal and turn complex priorities into coordinated plans that deliver meaningful outcomes?

Kōrero mō te tūranga - About the role 

Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington is currently recruiting a permanent, full-time Senior Portfolio Adviser, Future Students to act as a key connector between the Student Engagement team in the University’s Takitoru—Communications, Marketing and Digital Engagement group, and all future student-facing areas across the University. 

Ō pūmanawa - About you  

You will:

• Build a deep understanding of what the areas focused on future student recruitment are trying to achieve, translate those priorities into clear communications and marketing plans, and coordinate specialist support so activity is focused, joined up, and timed around the future student journey.
• Help ensure future students, their parents, whānau, and other key influencers receive the right information, through the right channel, at the right time in their journey. 
• Champion the needs of future students as they consider, apply, enrol, and arrive to begin their studies at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. You’ll know how to use audience insights and university strategy to shape coordinated communications, marketing, and experience activity. 
• Act as a trusted adviser to stakeholders, helping them navigate competing priorities and make informed decisions about where effort should be focused for greatest impact. By bringing together audience insight, institutional priorities, and specialist expertise, you'll help shape integrated, audience-centred experiences that improve outcomes for both future students and the University.
• Play a key role in monitoring performance, sharing insights, and driving continuous improvement to strengthen the University's approach to engaging future students.

The role leads intake, prioritisation, and planning across the future student portfolio, coordinates activity across specialist teams and ensures resources are focused on the areas that will have the greatest impact on recruitment and engagement outcomes.

Role Description: Click here to see further information, including salary details.

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Close Date for Vacancy: 02 August 2026.

Contact details for vacancy:  If you have any questions regarding this role, please get in touch with Kristina Keogh (kristina.keogh@vuw.ac.nz).

How to apply: Please ensure you are applying for this role directly on our careers page and not via email. Candidates must submit supporting documents along with their resume, such as a cover letter.

We can only consider applicants who are citizens or residents of New Zealand or Australia or on a current working visa. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and we may progress with suitable applicants prior to the application closing date. Applications from recruitment agencies are not accepted.

Mō Te Herenga Waka - About Our University

Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington is renowned for its high-quality research and exceptional teaching. We attract people from around the world. Our university campus spans Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington - the creative, scientific and political centre of Aotearoa New Zealand - and our students thrive on the connections we have made here.

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