Campus Manager (WGTN)

Campus Manager 

Wellington Campus, Lambton Quay 

Permanent, Full Time 

About the role

We're seeking a dynamic Campus Manager to lead operations at our Wellington campus, ensuring an exceptional experience for students, staff, and visitors alike.

This is a senior operational, pastoral, and cultural leadership role. You are accountable for delivering an exceptional, safe, student-centred learning environment that directly supports learner success, wellbeing, engagement, and progression. You'll be the face of the Wellington campus: supporting a high-performing academic team, overseeing pastoral care, driving student engagement from first contact through to graduation, and translating institutional strategy into lived campus experience.

You'll take ownership of the campus Health & Safety programme, ensure compliance with the Education (and Pastoral Care of International Students) Code of Practice, manage campus operations and facilities, and build strong relationships with local communities, industry, and schools to attract and inspire future learners.

This is an opportunity to make a real difference — shaping the culture, operations, and student experience of one of Aotearoa's most creative learning environments.

About Whitecliffe

Whitecliffe is one of the leading art, design, IT, and fashion schools in Aotearoa. Since 1984 we've focused on one thing - turning creativity into a career! At Whitecliffe it's about you: your ideas, your style, your future. We're here to help you grow as an individual and give you the tools to succeed. Our values of Integrity, Courage, Creativity, Belonging and Respect, form the bedrock of our commitment to collaborative synergy.

About you

You're an experienced operational and people leader with a genuine passion for student success and a talent for making things run smoothly. You bring a calm, resourceful presence to a busy environment and know how to balance the strategic with the day-to-day. People gravitate toward you because you're approachable, emotionally intelligent, and always follow through.

You understand what it takes to build a campus community where students and staff feel safe, supported, and inspired. You're comfortable overseeing pastoral care, leading Health & Safety, managing events and facilities, handling complaints with care, partnering with academic staff, and using student data and feedback to continuously improve outcomes. You thrive in a creative, values-driven environment and bring both initiative and heart to everything you do.

What you will bring:

A Bachelor's degree in Education, Education Management, Business Administration, or a related field

5–7 years' experience in campus, education, or student-focused operational leadership, ideally as a campus manager or similar

Demonstrated leadership in pastoral care, student services, or learner success

Strong understanding of student engagement, retention, and progression frameworks

Experience working with diverse, domestic, and international learner groups

Sound understanding of the NZ tertiary education sector

Demonstrated commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi and culturally responsive practice

Strong crisis, conflict, and issue-resolution capability

Confidence in Health & Safety compliance and emergency management

A first aid certification (not essential — can be trained)

If this sounds like you and you'd like to find out more, please APPLY NOW!

Whitecliffe is committed to ensuring an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require any support or adjustments during the application or interview process, please let us know how we can support!