Marketing Partner

Job Description:

Marketing, Communication & Events

Located in Ōtautahi | Christchurch, Aotearoa | New Zealand

• Full-time 37.5 hours per week (1.0 FTE)
• Fixed term position – 1-year parental leave cover
• $95,784 - $105,000 p.a., based on skills and experience

Kia hiwa rā, kia hiwa rā!
He hiahia, he pūkenga nōu ki te mahi a te Marketing Partner? Nāia te pōwhiri nā Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha kia tono mai i te tūranga nei.

Āu Mahi | What You Will Do

Connect faculty priorities with powerful, joined-up marketing.

Are you a strategic marketer who builds trusted relationships, turns insight into direction and brings people together to deliver results? Join Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury (UC) as a Marketing Partner in this one-year fixed-term role providing parental leave cover.

Working within UC’s Marketing, Communications and Events (MCE) team, you will be a trusted adviser to faculty leadership and key stakeholders to understand their priorities, challenges and opportunities, translating these into targeted marketing strategies, programme positioning and campaigns. You will also act as a key champion for the faculty across MCE, connect colleagues with specialist expertise, and lead the delivery of high-quality marketing activity that helps attract prospective students to UC.

• Build strategic faculty partnerships: Own the strategic marketing relationship with faculty leadership, developing a strong understanding of priorities, opportunities and challenges and providing trusted, timely advice.
• Lead marketing strategy and advice: Develop evidence-informed marketing strategies, plans and campaigns aligned with UC and faculty priorities. Advise on programme positioning, target audiences, investment choices, and use data to evaluate performance.
• Champion faculty priorities across MCE: Represent faculty perspectives across communications, events, social media, digital marketing and other MCE activity. Connect faculty colleagues with MCE specialists and enable direct, productive collaboration.
• Coordinate content, campaigns and support events: Develop core faculty and programme marketing content, create clear briefs, coordinate approvals and delivery, and ensure activity is accurate, audience-focused, on brand and delivered to agreed priorities, timelines and quality standards.

Mōu | Who You Are

You are a strategic and collaborative marketing professional who can turn business and audience needs into effective marketing plans and measurable outcomes. You will bring:

• At least five years’ relevant marketing experience, including developing and implementing strategic marketing plans and campaigns.
• A relevant tertiary qualification, such as a National Diploma at NZQA Level 5 or an equivalent recognised qualification, is preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including strong copywriting capability and the ability to brief creative work across digital, social, video and print channels.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to act as a trusted adviser and build effective relationships with senior leaders, academics, professional staff and specialist teams.
• Sound judgement and organisational skills, with experience coordinating priorities, agencies, projects and delivery in a complex environment.
• An analytical and audience-focused approach, with the ability to use research, market insight and campaign data to recommend direction and evaluate outcomes.
• A current New Zealand driver’s licence.
• An alignment with our organisation's values and culture, promoting a positive and inclusive work environment.

Mahi Ngātahi | Who You Will Work With

You will report to the Faculty Marketing Manager and work closely with faculty leadership, other Marketing Partners, Marketing Coordinators, and specialists across UC’s Marketing, Communications and Events (MCE) team. You will also engage with agencies and other partners as required.

Ngā Painga o UC | Why UC

Ngā Uara | Our Values of manaakitanga, whanaungatanga and tiakitanga guide our decisions and behaviour and provide a roadmap for how we do things at UC, affirming our commitment to pastoral care and support for our ākonga and staff. They challenge and inspire us to be the best we can, and make UC a great place to work and study. For more info on Ngā Uara | Our Values visit us here.

We are committed to accessible higher education, service to the community and the encouragement of talent without barriers of distance, wealth, class, gender or ethnicity. The University explicitly aims to produce graduates and support staff who are engaged with their communities, empowered to act for good and determined to make a difference in the world.

For more information, please visit us: https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/about-uc/work-at-uc/benefits-working-uc

For more information about Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury, please visit https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/

The closing date for this position is: 10 November 2026 (midnight, NZ time)
Please note, applications will be reviewed as they are received, and interviews may take place before the close date.

Pēhea te tono mai | How You Apply

Applications for this position must be submitted via our careers website and should include a cover letter and CV.

Please note, we do not accept applications by email, however we are happy to answer your queries in relation to the application process, please forward these to [email protected]

You must have Aotearoa New Zealand or Australian citizenship/permanent residency or hold a valid NZ work visa to be considered for this role.

Please note, this is an on-site position.