Brand Adviser

Te whiwhinga mahi | The opportunity

Reporting to the Brand Manager within the Marketing and Recruitment function of the Strategic Engagement portfolio, you’ll provide specialist brand advice and coordinate the end-to-end delivery of brand activation and promotional initiatives across the University.

This role offers an opportunity to play a key role in strengthening the University of Auckland’s brand and reputation while supporting the delivery of initiatives that engage audiences and contribute to University-wide priorities.

Key areas of focus include:

• Coordinating and delivering brand activation, events and promotional initiatives, managing timelines, approvals.
• Providing practical brand advice to internal stakeholders and ensuring brand assets, marketing materials and communications are applied consistently.
• Coordinating brand content and collateral across Marketing, Content, Design and Social Media teams, including proofreading and quality assurance
• Supporting sponsorship and partnership activation, merchandise, supplier relationships and associated administrative and budget processes
• Building strong stakeholder relationships and identifying opportunities to improve brand processes, templates and ways of working.

There are two full-time, permanent opportunities available. The full salary range for this role is $73,400 - $99,400 per annum (Band F)

For more detailed information about the role and requirements, please refer to the position description. 

He kōrero mōu | About you

We’re looking for someone who brings strong organisational and coordination skills, excellent attention to detail and a practical understanding of brand and marketing delivery.

You’ll be confident providing advice to a range of stakeholders and translating brand strategy and guidelines into practical recommendations and high-quality outputs.

We’re particularly interested in people who bring:

• Experience delivering brand, marketing, events or promotional activity, ideally within a large or complex organisation
• Strong coordination, organisational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, timelines and deliverables
• Experience providing practical advice to stakeholders and applying brand strategy and guidelines to marketing activity
• Excellent attention to detail, proofreading and quality assurance skills, alongside strong written and verbal communication

Ngā āhuatanga kei a mātou | What we offer

This role offers the opportunity to contribute to the continued development and strengthening of the University of Auckland’s brand, working within a collaborative Marketing and Recruitment function that brings together specialist expertise across brand, marketing, student recruitment, market research, campaigns, events, partnerships and promotional activity.

You’ll have the opportunity to build strong stakeholder relationships, contribute to University-wide initiatives and help improve the processes, tools and ways of working that support consistent and effective brand delivery.