"Community Adviser"

Job Description:

• Are you passionate about working with students and creating a positive living and learning environment?
• Have you got experience organising and delivering events, as well as maintaining budgets?
• Do you demonstrate initiative and sound judgment, with the ability to think on your feet?

Kōrero mō te tūranga - About the role

Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington is recruiting multiple fixed‑term and permanent part‑time Community Advisers (15–30 hours per week) to join Te Kopanga - University’s Accommodation team from February 2026.

Te Kopanga -University Accommodation has a focus on connecting residents to university services ensuring their academic success, wellbeing, welfare and health and safety is front of mind. This includes an environment that is safe, fostering a sense of community, inclusion and belonging, and delivering a cohesive, cross-university integrated student experience that protects and enhances the University’s reputation nationally and internationally.

Key responsibilities:

• Event coordination and administration including establishing your hall events calendar.
• Organising and coordinating events.
• Use existing hall information to plan events specifically targeted to the current cohort and gauge interest and feedback from Hall residents about events they’ve enjoyed or would like to have.
• Complete event audits and reporting.
• Hall Admin support, Star Rez reporting, answer phone calls and reception.
• Promoting and monitoring appropriate behaviour by residents and role modelling appropriate communal living behaviour.
• Respond to emergency and evacuation situations and escalating to on call manager.

Ō pūmanawa - About you

This is an exciting opportunity for a candidate who is passionate about working with students and creating a positive living and learning environment, is a team player, well-organised, proactive, quick to learn, and adaptable. You do not need to be a current student to apply.

You will be a mature, fun, flexible advisers who can balance support for the students and meet the University’s obligations for pastoral care in compliance with the Education (Pastoral Care of Tertiary and International Learners) Code of Practice 2021.

Key requirements:

• Proven knowledge of what it takes to live successfully in communal living.
• Experience organising and delivering events and maintaining budgets.
• Experience living or working across cultures; with a particular understanding of Maori, Pasifika, and international students.
• Computer literacy and knowledge; ability to use social media (Facebook, Instagram etc.).
• Able to facilitate events programmes as required during the academic year.
• Mature, responsible and maintains professional and appropriate relationships.
• Demonstrates previous success at being a positive role model.
• Demonstrates initiative and sound judgement, with an ability to think on your feet.
• At least an NZ clean restricted driver’s license.

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Close date for vacancy: 04 February2026.

Contact details for vacancy: If you have any questions regarding this role please get in touch with Katrina Rogers (Katrina.rogers@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.