Marketing and Events Coordinator

About SCU Ventures

SCU Ventures is a wholly owned subsidiary of Southern Cross University, created to support and enhance the university’s strategic initiatives. At SCU Ventures we focus on delivering higher education programs, fostering global partnerships, and expanding the university's presence, particularly at campuses in major Australian cities like Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth. SCU Ventures delivers pathways, undergraduate and postgraduate programs, to provide quality education services, with tailored support to ensure positive educational outcomes. SCU Ventures plays a key role in the university's growth by helping build a vibrant, diverse student community.

Your opportunity

Every student journey starts with a meaningful connection.

As our Marketing Events and CRM Coordinator, you'll create those connections by delivering exceptional recruitment events and developing CRM campaigns that engage prospective students from their first enquiry through to enrolment.

This is a varied, hands-on marketing role where you'll combine event management with customer journey automation and campaign delivery. You'll coordinate everything from major student recruitment events and careers expos to CRM nurture campaigns, working closely with the wider marketing, recruitment and sales teams to continually improve how we engage with future students.

Working alongside our Marketing and Social Media Coordinator, you'll complement their storytelling expertise by ensuring every campaign, event and communication is timely, targeted and delivers measurable results.

You will make an impact by:

• Planning and delivering recruitment events, expos and engagement activities across Australia
• Developing, managing and optimizing CRM campaigns and automated student nurture journeys
• Analysing campaign performance and customer insights to improve engagement and conversion
• Collaborating with internal teams, agencies and industry partners to deliver outstanding marketing initiatives
• Coordinating event logistics, budgets and communications to create exceptional experiences for prospective students

What you will bring

You’re an organised marketing professional who enjoys bringing projects to life and creating seamless customer experiences. You thrive when juggling multiple priorities, enjoy working with data as much as people, and are always looking for ways to improve processes and outcomes.

Whether your background is in education, events, marketing or CRM, you'll bring a collaborative approach, strong attention to detail and a passion for creating meaningful experiences that help students make confident decisions about their future

To succeed in this role, you will also need:

• Experience coordinating events, campaigns or marketing projects in a fast-paced environment
• Experience using CRM platforms or marketing automation tools to manage customer communications and nurture campaigns such as Dynamics 365, Salesforce or similar
• Strong project management, organization and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
• Confidence interpreting campaign and engagement data to identify opportunities for continuous improvement
• Excellent communication skills, with a collaborative and proactive approach to working with internal and external stakeholders

Why SCU Ventures

As part of the SCU Ventures team, you can enjoy a range of benefits, including:

• Salary Sacrificing
• Paid Parental Leave
• Career Progression / Study Assistance
• Wellbeing Days
• Employee Assistance Program

If you are passionate about student success and academic excellence, we’d love to hear from you!  Ensure to include a brief cover letter outlining your suitability for this fixed term role, your employment history, and details of relevant industry experience, education or qualifications.

Applications close 11.30pm AEST 16 August 2026.

Only applications with a cover letter addressing the selection criteria will be considered.

SCU Ventures is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer with a focus on our employees. We treasure skills, expertise and commitment. We aim to attract, develop, motivate, reward and retain the best people in the industry.

Forward queries to ***************@scu.edu.au.

No Recruitment Agencies.