Jobs at The University of Auckland

Manages major-gift fundraising for the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences. Builds relationships with high-net-worth individuals, trusts, foundations, and corporate partners; identifies and cultivates prospects; develops proposals and engagement strategies; solicits and stewards donors; and collaborates with university leaders to align philanthropic opportunities with faculty priorities and secure significant investment.

Plans, coordinates, delivers, and improves innovation and entrepreneurship programmes and events, with particular responsibility for Māori-focused programmes and cohorts. Manages logistics, communications, contributors, participant experiences, outreach, relationships, reporting, and feedback. Supports Māori and Pacific participation through culturally responsive engagement grounded in tikanga Māori, while collaborating with academics, facilitators, practitioners, and community partners.

Leads the University's enterprise AI vision, strategy, roadmap, and product lifecycle. Identifies AI opportunities, develops business cases, prioritizes initiatives, and partners with data, architecture, security, and delivery teams to implement scalable, governed solutions. Engages senior stakeholders, drives adoption, evaluates value and ROI, and promotes responsible AI, data governance, security, and ethical decision-making. This is a 24-month fixed-term, full-time position.

Develop and optimize personalized, omnichannel customer lifecycle marketing campaigns across CRM, CDP, and marketing automation platforms. Own campaign frameworks, workflows, landing pages, templates, testing, compliance, performance reporting, and continuous optimization. Collaborate with marketing, recruitment, digital, operations, insight teams, and external agencies to improve customer experiences and achieve business objectives.

Leads the creation of a strategic market research and insights function for a major university. The role provides research, forecasting, segmentation, analytics, and strategic recommendations to senior leaders across recruitment, retention, branding, academic portfolio development, international strategy, and research innovation. Responsibilities include establishing research frameworks and governance, building team capability, influencing decisions, identifying opportunities and risks, and translating complex findings into actionable organisational outcomes.

Build and manage relationships with secondary schools, students, whānau, teachers, and careers advisers. Represent the University at school visits, presentations, information evenings, and major events; support student recruitment and engagement; develop tailored resources and digital content; analyze application and enrolment data; provide guidance to prospective students; and collaborate with faculties, marketing, communications, and student services to improve the prospective student experience.

Supports day-to-day operations of a university optometry teaching clinic through reception, patient support, appointment scheduling, diary management, invoicing, payment collection, claims processing, referrals, confidentiality compliance, consent documentation, clinical correspondence, and health and safety administration.

Partners with academic and operational teams to support budgeting, forecasting, long-term planning, financial reporting, analysis, and strategic decision-making. The role provides financial insights, improves financial literacy, ensures policy compliance, supports business modelling, and contributes to continuous improvement. It requires strong stakeholder engagement, management accounting expertise, advanced Excel skills, experience with Power BI or similar tools, and familiarity with ERP systems such as PeopleSoft and Workday.

Coordinate research support operations, Māori summer research programming, community outreach events, stakeholder travel, meetings, documentation, purchasing, supplier activation, and event expenditure. Provide administrative support to the Operations Manager and wider Centre team while maintaining financial-policy compliance and culturally responsive relationships with Māori and Pacific communities.

Leads the university’s employment relations strategy, manages union relationships, oversees employment relations matters, and provides employment law expertise. The role coaches and influences senior stakeholders, builds HR capability, mitigates organizational risk, and supports strategic and operational decision-making. One Employment Relations Specialist reports to this position.

A 12-month permanent Māori graduate programme offering four tailored rotations across the University of Auckland. Graduates gain hands-on experience, mentoring, professional and cultural development, and exposure to diverse career pathways including strategy, technology, data, finance, marketing, sustainability and student success. Applicants must be recent or upcoming University of Auckland graduates with whakapapa Māori, curiosity, initiative and a willingness to learn and collaborate.

Design and deliver Māori researcher development programmes, workshops, learning opportunities, and mentoring initiatives. Identify capability gaps, create culturally appropriate resources, support research capability and funding success, evaluate programme effectiveness, and build trusted relationships across the University, Māori communities, researchers, hapū, and iwi. The role requires strong kaupapa Māori knowledge, tikanga Māori understanding, stakeholder collaboration, learning programme experience, and commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi principles.

Coordinate community outreach and promotional activities for SPARX, an evidence-based digital mental health programme for young people. Responsibilities include building relationships with schools, youth organisations, healthcare providers and community groups; organising events; creating social media content; supporting digital campaigns; tracking engagement performance; and collaborating with designers, suppliers and partners to increase programme awareness, reach and uptake.

Develop and deliver sustainability communications across digital, web, social, internal, and external channels. Advise stakeholders, translate complex topics into accessible content, identify impact stories, and support sustainability, SDG, rankings, and external benchmarking reporting. The role also contributes to strategic campaigns, engagement, reputation, and understanding across the university.

Lead the University's strategic communications function, shaping institutional narrative, positioning, executive communications, and reputation-building initiatives. Use audience data and insights to develop messaging and communications strategies, advise senior leaders, manage issues and crisis communications, support major announcements and change programs, and build trusted stakeholder relationships. Lead a high-performing communications team while ensuring communications are culturally competent, audience-focused, and aligned with long-term organisational priorities.

Develop strategic communications supporting the University's reputation, priorities, global rankings, and high-profile initiatives. Create leadership communications, institutional announcements, and strategic messaging; translate complex information into accessible stories; support issues and crisis communications; use data and insights for planning and measurement; and collaborate with leaders, subject matter experts, and stakeholders to deliver accurate, consistent, and engaging content.

Develop and deliver executive communications for the Vice-Chancellor and senior leaders, including speeches, messages, briefings, statements, presentations, and talking points. Partner with leadership to shape messaging, support crisis communications, align communications with strategic and reputation priorities, and engage diverse audiences. Build trusted relationships across the University while managing sensitive issues, confidential information, planned communications, and emerging priorities.

Leads enterprise-wide internal communications strategy, channels, audience segmentation, measurement, and engagement initiatives. Advises executive leaders and senior stakeholders, manages and develops an internal communications team, and strengthens organisational culture, employee experience, trust, and belonging across a large university.

Develop and deliver strategic communications for university faculties, research institutes, and innovation portfolios. Build relationships with senior leaders and stakeholders, advise on reputation and communications strategy, identify media opportunities, manage enquiries, support spokespeople, translate complex research into compelling content, and manage emerging issues and reputational risks. The role also supports employee engagement, planning, evaluation, and continuous improvement across internal and external channels.

Leads digital and Generative AI communications capability across the University. Develops responsible-use guidance, standards, training, resources, and AI-enabled workflows; identifies opportunities to improve content effectiveness and audience engagement; monitors emerging trends; and coaches stakeholders on practical digital innovation. The role bridges communications practice and technology to support experimentation, continuous improvement, and stronger storytelling across a complex organisation.