Marketing & Recruitment Business Partners

Auckland | Permanent | Full-time

Hybrid working environment

Marketing & Recruitment | Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland

$98,700 - $133,500 (Band H) depending on experience

 

• Join a newly established team redefining how marketing and recruitment supports the University
• Partner with senior leaders to drive strategy, prioritisation and growth
• Enjoy hybrid work, a 37.5-hour week, and inclusive benefits designed to support wellbeing and caring commitments

With more than 47,000 students and over 6,000 staff, Waipapa Taumata Rau, the University of Auckland is Aotearoa New Zealand's leading university and a globally connected organisation dedicated to creating knowledge, transforming lives and shaping the future. As part of a newly established Marketing & Recruitment operating model, our Business Partnering team sits at the centre of strategic decision-making, helping faculties, research institutes and service divisions connect organisational priorities with meaningful marketing and recruitment outcomes.

Te Whiwhinga mahi | The opportunity

This is an influential, strategic partnering role working closely with senior leaders, faculty leadership teams and key stakeholders to translate organisational priorities into integrated marketing and recruitment plans. Rather than delivering campaigns directly, you will help shape direction, set priorities, facilitate planning and ensure the University's marketing and recruitment investment delivers the greatest impact.

You'll be a trusted adviser, connecting your portfolio to a central hub of marketing, brand, digital, content, recruitment and communications expertise. Through evidence-based planning, stakeholder engagement and strategic advisory work, you'll help drive sustainable student recruitment and experience, strengthen reputation, and support research, innovation and community impact.

In this newly established team and function, we are recruiting multiple Marketing & Recruitment Business Partners to support portfolios across the University. These portfolios are:

• Arts & Education
• Business & Law
• Engineering and Design
• Medical Health Sciences, FMHS (appointed)
• Science
• Campus Experience
• Research and Innovation
• Education
• Large-Scale Research Institutes (LSRIs)

Find out more about the ways we are transforming how we engage with our internal and external audiences across our Marketing, Recruitment, Communications and Engagement functions.

This role offers a rare opportunity to influence outcomes at scale while remaining connected to the people and communities your work supports.

Key areas of focus include:

• Developing and maintaining integrated annual marketing and recruitment plans for assigned portfolios
• Translating University and portfolio strategies into clear, prioritised objectives
• Partnering with Deans, senior leaders and professional services stakeholders to align priorities and outcomes
• Providing strategic marketing and recruitment advice informed by evidence, insight and best practice
• Managing demand, prioritisation and briefing processes into the Marketing & Recruitment Hub
• Identifying opportunities for collaboration and shared solutions across portfolios
• Supporting governance, planning and continuous improvement activities that enhance effectiveness across the University.

This is a full-time, permanent opportunity. The full salary range for this role is $98,700 - $133,500 - Band H.

We have a structured salary framework with three zones for those developing into the role (developing), fully effective (target) and contributing beyond what is expected of the role (upper). Appointments are typically made within the target range of $105,701 – $121,900, depending on skills, experience, and internal equity. We welcome conversations about your expectations and what matters to you in your overall package. Any offer will be made within the advertised range and guided by fairness, consistency, and our commitment to pay equity.

For more detailed information about the role and requirements, please refer to the Position Description.

He kōrero mōu | About you

We're looking for experienced strategic partners who can connect people, priorities and ideas — helping ensure our marketing and recruitment investment drives meaningful outcomes for students, staff, faculties, research institutes and communities. You may come from a marketing, communications, consulting, agency account management, business partnering background or another strategic advisory environment.

What matters most is your ability to build relationships, influence stakeholders and connect organisational priorities to meaningful action.

We're particularly interested in people who bring:

• Experience developing strategic plans, business plans or customer strategies, creating a clear line of sight for your stakeholders and priorities for specialist teams
• Demonstrable stakeholder/client engagement and relationship management capability to support maximum impact for your portfolio, high-quality delivery for internal teams, and a culture of collaboration
• Confidence working with senior leaders in complex environments, beyond pure advising to a valued partnership, while managing competing priorities and projects across your collaborating partners and the marketing hub
• A solid understanding of the tertiary marketing and/or student recruitment landscape to translate the needs of your portfolio into actionable outcomes
• Excellent facilitation, communication and influencing skills
• A collaborative and service-oriented mindset
• Curiosity, adaptability and comfort working within evolving environments.

Ngā āhuatanga kei a mātou | What we offer

This is a rare opportunity to contribute to a new function, vision and culture while working within an organisation that operates at significant scale. This new function gives you access to internal expertise and resources commensurate to our complexity and commitments including an in-house design studio and media production teams, audience specialist teams, web and digital teams, AI and automation expertise, and Māori and Pacific specialists across brand, media, comms and engagement.

As a comprehensive university, our scale creates opportunities that few organisations can offer. Whether your interests lie in education, research, innovation, reputation building, community engagement or student growth, you'll have the chance to contribute across a wide range of portfolios, projects and strategic priorities while continuing to grow your own career.

Beyond the work itself, you'll be joining a vibrant and inclusive community. From staff networks and cultural communities to social clubs, volunteering opportunities, wellbeing initiatives and campus events, there are countless ways to connect, contribute and build meaningful relationships across the University.

We also offer:

• A commitment to work/life balance with a 37.5 hour working week, flexible hours and hybrid/remote working patterns
• A competitive remuneration package with up to 6.75% super, annual salary increase with performance-based multiplier
• Time to recharge and disconnect with 5 weeks' annual leave and additional leave buy/sell scheme,
• Support for parents and carers with subsidised on-site childcare (including Kōhanga Reo), gender-neutral parental leave up to 9 weeks’ full pay, on-site parenting and feeding spaces
• A commitment to the wellbeing of our people with confidential access to a range of EAP services, including mental health counselling, financial guidance, neurodiversity coaching and rongoā services, a world-class on-site fitness centre, access to student specialists across our supervised training clinics, discounted health insurance.
• The opportunity to grow with access to an extensive programme of professional, leadership and cultural development, including digital capability coaching, specialised leadership development programmes, and Te Ao and Te Reo Māori learning programmes for staff
• The opportunity to build your career with one of Aotearoa’s most diverse and complex organisations

Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to apply

Please submit an application online by the closing date of Sunday 13th September 2026. Please include your cover letter and your CV highlighting your interest in the role, your capabilities and relevant experience.

Please reach out to Faith Pallant, Recruitment Manager on [email protected] with any questions. 

Reasonable accommodations - We are committed to building a more equitable and inclusive workforce and workplace, so we encourage applicants to reach out to discuss any reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process, including alternative ways to submit applications.

Whānau and support people - Should you be invited to an interview for this role, your whānau members and/or support people will be welcome to join you. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more information about this as part of the interview arrangements.

Equity

The University is committed to meeting its obligations under the Treaty of Waitangi and achieving equity outcomes for staff and students in a safe, inclusive, and equitable environment.  For further information on services for Māori, Pacific, women, LGBTQIATakatāpuiMVPFAFF+, people with disabilities, parenting support, flexible work and other personal circumstances go to www.equity.auckland.ac.nz