Jobs at The University of Auckland

Manage and improve innovation and entrepreneurship programmes, with a focus on Māori and Pacific participation. Build trusted relationships with students, staff, communities, academics, facilitators and partners; coordinate programme delivery; support outreach and recruitment; create engaging participant experiences; and use feedback, data and stakeholder insights to improve programme quality and progression.

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.

Coordinate and support IMAC’s online learning courses and learning management systems. Responsibilities include troubleshooting system and access issues, analyzing errors, supporting users, contributing to continuous quality improvement, and assisting with digital transformation projects. The role also provides training and support to staff and colleagues while helping maintain integrated information systems for national immunisation education programs.

Lead, execute, and optimize paid digital acquisition campaigns across Google, Meta, LinkedIn, search, social, programmatic, display, and remarketing channels. Manage budgets, analyze attribution and performance data, conduct audience and creative testing, and improve conversions and cost efficiency. Provide technical guidance and quality assurance to digital practitioners while collaborating with internal stakeholders, media agencies, platform representatives, and technology partners.

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.

Leads the University’s enterprise-wide performance marketing and digital strategy, governance, budgets, platforms, agencies, and specialist teams. Owns acquisition, conversion, funnel performance, measurement, attribution, ROI, experimentation, CRO, and customer-journey optimisation. Drives digital transformation, capability uplift, data-informed investment decisions, and sustainable in-house capability while managing marketing technology and analytics partnerships.

Leads the University’s domestic postgraduate recruitment strategy, growth funnel, employer and government partnerships, B2B and B2C acquisition, forecasting, reporting, conversion optimization, technology initiatives, budgets, and high-performing teams. Advises senior stakeholders on market insights and commercial growth while building a scalable recruitment function for professional, postgraduate, and doctoral learners.

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.

Supervise students during university exams across in-person digital, paper-based, and remote online formats. Set up exam rooms, enforce regulations, monitor student behavior, respond to irregularities, check attendance, escort candidates during breaks, protect academic integrity, and distribute and collect exam materials. Availability is required throughout the exam period, along with in-person training beforehand.

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.

Lead initiatives that increase Māori participation in bioengineering research by building pathways into postgraduate study, internships, and research careers. Develop trusted relationships with Māori communities, iwi, schools, students, and University partners; promote ABI opportunities; co-design culturally responsive engagement initiatives; and support Te Tiriti o Waitangi commitments. The role is part-time, fixed-term for 36 months, based at the University of Auckland City Campus.

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.

Provides administrative and operational support to research centre leadership, coordinating outreach, communications, events, funding rounds, digital content, and stakeholder engagement. The role manages multiple priorities, develops communications materials, supports research management processes, coordinates events, maintains online and social media presence, and works with academics, senior management, government, community, Māori, and Pacific stakeholders.

Lead the University’s founder and venture development portfolio, guiding students, researchers, and staff from idea exploration through validation and early venture development. Build and manage a new high-performing team, coordinate programmes, cohorts, mentors, and partners, and strengthen connections to commercialisation, investment, and ecosystem support. The role requires strategic judgement, commercial awareness, stakeholder influence, budget management, operational planning, and founder coaching within a complex university innovation environment.

Leads the University’s innovation and entrepreneurship programme portfolio, developing capability among students, researchers and staff. Responsibilities include strategic portfolio development, experiential programme delivery, team leadership, stakeholder engagement, evaluation, continuous improvement, budget and resource management, and oversight of Technology & Prototyping operations, infrastructure, health and safety. The role also contributes to Centre-wide strategy, performance, culture and organisational development.

Supports clinical research studies through participant recruitment, screening, enrollment, follow-up, clinical assessments, treatment delivery, phlebotomy, biological sample collection, data documentation, quality assurance, scheduling, and study administration. Ensures adherence to approved protocols, ethical requirements, and Good Clinical Practice while coordinating with participants, families, healthcare providers, and research stakeholders.

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.

Leads faculty-based academic and student services across medical and health sciences programmes. Manages a professional team, implements strategic and annual plans, advises central services on admissions and academic progress, builds stakeholder relationships, supports enrolment outcomes, and leads strategic projects and service improvements. The role requires people leadership, operational planning, change management, customer service expertise, cultural competency, and familiarity with university academic and student services systems.

Supports the Finance Lead and business units with budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, management reporting, reconciliations, financial insights, and compliance. The role prepares monthly reports and commentary, maintains accurate financial records, supports audit and internal controls, builds relationships with shared services, and improves reporting processes, dashboards, and financial visibility during a 12-month transition period.