"Senior Portfolio Adviser, WSBG"

Job Description:

• Are you passionate about building relationships and delivering communications that make an impact?
• Do you enjoy collaborating across diverse teams?
• Can you bring order to competing priorities?

Kōrero mō te tūranga - About the role

Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington are currently recruiting for a Senior Portfolio Adviser, WSBG to join the Takitoru - Communications, Marketing and Digital Engagement Group on a permanent, full-time contract.

Following a reorganisation to form an integrated team, we are excited to announce several key roles. The newly formed Takitoru - Communications, Marketing and Digital Engagement Group at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University Wellington will play a pivotal role in enhancing the University's reputation and supporting its strategic goals through targeted, innovative, and effective communications and marketing.

This newly formed Group will foster greater collaboration, unified messaging, and enhanced creativity to engage our many audiences.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead the development and delivery of communications, marketing, and engagement plans for the Orauariki - Wellington School of Business and Government, 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 detail 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: 13 February 2026.

Contact details for vacancy: If you have any questions regarding this role, please contact Elizabeth Cherry (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.

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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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