Coordinator Student Communications

Full time, fixed term 16-month appointment
Professional level 7 salary $86,930 to $94,829
Plus 17% superannuation and 6 weeks annual leave
Casuarina Campus

Work with colleagues across the University to ensure student-facing communications are relevant, easy to understand and engaging.

About the Position
As a Coordinator Student Communications, you will be responsible for working with staff across the University to ensure student-facing communications are relevant, easy to understand, engaging and consistently written. This will involve working closely with colleagues across the University, including the Marketing, Media and Communication team to facilitate consistent outcomes by:

• Coordinating an annual cycle of outbound student communications
• Assisting staff with drafting, striving for clarity of written expression and a consistent writing style
• Using inbound student enquiries as a source of wisdom for improvement in outbound channels, including web, EDM, SMS, social and mobile applications
• Ensuring current student web pages are intuitive to navigate and surface the right content at the right times of year

About You
To be successful, you will possess:

• A relevant undergraduate qualification and a body of knowledge in a related professional area.
• Demonstrated experience in one or more aspects of communications, including managing channels, implementing platforms, creating style guides, training staff and creating copy
• Exceptional communication skills, with excellent written skills suitable for drafting multi-channel copy, and the capacity to build communications skills across the University, with consistent uptake in a distributed environment
• The ability to strongly influence stakeholders through outstanding relationship management and negotiation skills, ensuring staff fulfill their obligations in a timely manner

To view the responsibilities of the role please click on the: Position Profile

Remuneration
Appointment to this role will be at Professional Level 7, the base salary will be in the range $86,390 to $94,829 per annum. The total remuneration package will be in the range of $101,076 to $110,949 per annum including 17% superannuation.

What's in it for you?

• An employer who values your contribution to build a bigger, better and stronger university
• Work with a University committed to changing people's lives for the better through training, education and research
• An enviable lifestyle within the unique and spectacular Northern Territory
• Opportunities for professional development, paid study and career progression
• 17% superannuation
• Up to six weeks of paid annual leave (dependent on work location)
• 20 weeks of paid parental leave, in addition to government payments (eligibility criteria apply)
• Recognition of prior service with another Australian University / NT Government for Long Service Leave
• Free on-campus parking
• Employee Assistance Program
• Salary Packaging opportunities

How to Apply
All applications must be received online via the 'apply' button and should include your resume and a cover letter outlining your interest in the role and relevant skills and experience.

For a confidential discussion please contact Lisa-Marie Stones on 08 8946 6352 or email Lisa-Marie.Stones@cdu.edu.au

Diversity and Inclusion
At CDU we actively celebrate our diversity. We innovate, embrace new ideas, and act with courage and kindness. We're about what we can give to the world rather than what we take, and we believe in the transformative power of education. We work hard to make sure every member of our university community feels that they truly belong. Understanding that it is through our focus on our people and leveraging our differences that will make CDU the most connected university in Australia, we are striving to ensure that our culture and our community is inclusive of all our staff, students and visitors. We are committed to maintaining a culture where everyone feels respected, safe, encouraged to speak up and supported in achieving their professional goals. Applications from First Nations people, women at all levels, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disability, neurotypical and neurodiverse people, LGBTIQ+ people, people with family and caring responsibilities and people at all stages of their careers are welcomed.

You make CDU. And we want you to be exactly who you are.

Applications Close: Thursday 1 September 2022