Senior Portfolio Adviser, Communications and Marketing

Job Description:

• Can you effectively manage, prioritise, and contribute to multiple projects?
• Do you have a tertiary qualification in communications or marketing and enjoy collaborating across diverse teams?
• Are you an experienced marketing and communications professional who is passionate about building relationships and delivering important work?

Kōrero mō te tūranga - About the role

Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington is currently recruiting a Senior Portfolio Adviser, Communications and Marketing to join the Takitoru - Communications, Marketing and Digital Engagement team on a permanent, full-time basis.

As the Senior Portfolio Adviser, Communications and Marketing in Te Kauhanganui Tātai Ture - Faculty of Law, you will work in close partnership with faculty leadership, playing a pivotal role in helping the Faculty connect with its internal and external communities. You will act as a conduit between Te Kauhanganui Tātai Ture - Faculty of Law and the University's digital, communications, and marketing group, ensuring faculty priorities are understood and aligned, while supporting your faculty to confidently navigate communications and marketing opportunities.

You'll help to strengthen the Law School's community through connection, visibility, and engagement across staff, students, alumni, and the Wellington legal community. Familiarity with legal education, the legal profession, or adjacent professional environments would be an advantage.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead the development and delivery of communications, marketing, and engagement plans for the Faculty of Law, ensuring alignment with the University’s overarching strategy and KPIs.
• Build and maintain strong, proactive relationships with faculty leadership, senior staff, and internal stakeholders to ensure priorities and opportunities are clearly understood and progressed.
• Oversee faculty communication and engagement channels—including web, social, advertising, newsletters, print, and digital—ensuring content is current, relevant, and consistent with university standards.
• Build strong, positive working relationships across the University, including within the wider Takitoru - Communications, Marketing and Digital Engagement Group, and with senior leaders, staff, and external stakeholders.

Ō Pūmanawa - About you

You will be organised, manage competing priorities, pay attention to details and communicate clearly. You will be skilled at relationship building, translating strategic objectives into practical actions, and work collaboratively to achieve results. You are curious, proactive, and genuinely motivated to take ownership of your work.

Key requirements:

• Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining effective relationships across dynamic teams with divergent stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience in marketing, communication, and engagement activities.
• Demonstrated ability to manage, prioritise, and contribute to multiple projects and a wide range of tasks and interactions with several internal clients.
• Demonstrated ability to write communications and marketing material to a corporate, professional standard.
• Previous experience in the use of social media as a communications and marketing tool.
• Appropriate tertiary qualification in communications and/or marketing (or other relevant area), or equivalent experience working within a communications and marketing environment.

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Close date for vacancy: 16 April 2026.

Contact details for vacancy: If you have any questions regarding this role, please contact Elizabeth Cherry, Manager, Academic Engagement (elizabeth.cherry@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.

Applicants who do not have residency or citizenship and require a visa to work at the University must clearly indicate their visa status in their application and understand that if they do not have a current, relevant visa, they will need to secure this independently.

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.