Student Communications Officer

**Work in a collaborative team environment**:

- **The position is located at our Footscray Park Campus.
**About Us**:
At Victoria University, our aim is to be a global leader in dual-sector learning and research by 2028. Join us on the journey and help us achieve our strategic drives embedded in our Strategic Plan 2022-2028: Start well, finish brilliantly. One of the drivers “Thriving place to Study and Work” will enable us to continue to create places that our students and staff love to belong and feel immense pride.

The Student Services and Administration portfolio has responsibility for domestic and international students, studying vocational or higher education at VU. It supports end-to-end student lifecycle operations and student business system configuration and oversight across VU. This collaborative and integrated service works together with the University's Colleges and other stakeholders to support students across the student life cycle. The portfolio includes:
**About the Role**:
The overall purpose of the Student Communications Officer is to create, design and implement multi-channel communications campaigns for current students on behalf of a range of VU service providers. You will utilise your highly-developed written and verbal communication skills to craft compelling and engaging communications to ensure VU’s students are well informed and engaged with everything that is happening on (and off) campus.

**This is a full time position at a HEP 5 $75,329 - $86,527 classification working 36.75 hours per week over a continuing contract period.**

An example of your responsibilities or duties you may perform will include:

- Drafting and creating effective, professional, and engaging communications
- Respond to briefs from VU-wide stakeholders to produce engaging communications across all channels aligned to the communications schedule, under the direction of the Coordinator, Student Communications;
- Ensure relevant channels (e.g. eDM, MYVU Portal, web, knowledge bases, web, social media, digiscreens etc.) are updated to be consistent with brand guidelines.
- Ensure content is aligned with university writing style guide and accessibility standards;
Monitoring and reviewing social media to ensure queries or comments are managed effectively

**About You**:

- A background in Communications, Marketing, Content creation, or Media and Communications would be ideal.
- The successful applicant will be inquisitive, adaptable, cooperative, proactive, and resourceful (a can-do attitude), with the ability to work autonomously and as part of team under the direction of the Coordinator - Student Communications campaigns.This will be a role with a lot of variety and exciting challenges. The successful applicant will be joining VU at a very exciting time and will be vital to the success of our comms strategy. The successful applicant will be supported to achieve great results and grow their career.

**What We Offer**:
**How to Apply**:
To view a copy of the position description, please click **_here _**_. _**
- A cover letter
- Your curriculum vitae/resume
- Your responses to the Key Selection Criteria listed in the Position DescriptionEvidence of applicable qualifications, licences and registrations

**_Application Closing Date: 11:59pm Thursday 30 January 2025
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**Who Do You Contact?**

Victoria University (VU) is the University of the West.

For more than 100 years, Victoria University (VU) has offered accessible education to students in Melbourne’s west and beyond.

We are one of Australia’s few dual-sector universities, with currently over 40,000 enrolled vocational and higher education students studying across our campuses.

Our moral purpose is to provide vocational and higher education that transforms the lives of students and the communities we serve. Our values are a living set of actions that underpin our moral purpose.

The VU Values are that we are always:

- welcoming
- ethical
- shaping the future
- together.

This is the VU Way. We are always WEST.

At VU we believe diversity is a strength - the more diverse perspectives, identities, cultural backgrounds, ages and experience of our students and staff, the better our working environment, research and educational experience of our students.

With a culturally diverse population of students and staff from a wide range of backgrounds, we strive to foster a welcoming and inclusive environment where all students and staff are respected, valued and enabled to thrive.