Student Inclusion Manager (Disability)

• Dynamic organisation
• Unique and busy role
• Great team environment

A new and exciting opportunity has become available for a talented professional who enjoys a challenging, fast paced and progressive environment.  With every day different you will be prepared to hit the ground running while navigating the demands of this dynamic role.  By providing leadership across Student Services and Administration, the wider University and with external stakeholders to ensure our disabled, Deaf and neurodivergent student community is supported and enabled to achieve success.

You will enjoy building strong internal and external relationships with a variety of stakeholders, representing and maintaining the reputation of the organisation while reflecting a commitment to excellence and vision.  You will be proactive, energetic, and pragmatic; able to demonstrate professional practice while sharing expertise in an educational and engaging way.

To be successful in this role, you will have experience in:

• Knowledge and understanding of the contemporary issues and challenges facing students
• Be passionate and have commitment for the wider communities needs
• Being effective in developing tactics to support cohorts of students within an integrated pastoral care support framework, with an emphasis on disabled, Deaf and neurodivergent students and those from diverse backgrounds
• Being innovative and solution focused, when faced with challenges
• Monitoring, analysis and reporting for senior leadership and continuous improvement to services
• Proven leadership in the delivery of a high quality, professional service with a culture of customer care

If you are ready for a challenge, thrive on responsibility, accountability and ownership for your role and actions, along with a professional approach, are flexible, adaptable, assertive, and proactive with high levels of initiative, then we want to hear from you!

Choosing to join the team at AUT University means you will:

• Be a member of a warm, friendly, passionate team who enjoy achieving exceptional results
• Be a member of the fastest growing and second largest University in New Zealand
• Be part of an organisation that makes a difference to the social fabric of New Zealand and is changing the shape of the tertiary education industry
• Enjoy great professional development opportunities, a range of staff benefits and generous leave allowances

With campus footprints across four diverse Auckland locations, Auckland University of Technology (AUT) is the newest and second largest University in New Zealand. It is a contemporary, connected and relevant study destination with more than 29,000 students and over 4,000 staff and is focused on providing exceptional student learning experiences and graduate success based on innovative and supportive teaching and contemporary first-class student services.

To apply please click "Apply Now" below to be redirected to our careers site. You can also visit http://careers.aut.ac.nz to see our other vacancies.

You must be eligible to work in NZ to be considered.

Salary Range:  $88,000 - $107,000 (dependent on experience and qualifications) 

Reference:  90780

Closing Date: 26 Nov 2024, at 11:55pm

*Full-time denotes 37.5 hours per week 

This role is considered a children's worker role and will be subject to safety checking as part of the Children's Act 2014.