About the Department of Career Services

Our vision at Career Services is to engage students in transformative experiences beyond the classroom through work integrated learning and career exploration. We connect industry partners with skilled and motivated students who positively impact our local national and global community.

We are intentional in our approach and have our mission vision and guiding principles to direct us in the transformative services we offer. We believe that no student is left behind and are committed to four objectives to ensure this; growing experiential career development for all students delivering exceptional value to our partners (internal/ external) increasing graduate employment and ensuring sustainability through diversification of services and Services is going through its own transformation and as a high performing team this will enable us to innovate and build an agile ecosystem that delivers new services and experiences for our students and partners.

About the Role

The Recruitment and Engagement Coordinator is responsible for the collaborative planning development and execution of marketing and communications strategies to ensure maximum student recruitment and engagement in Career Services programs events and activities. This position will have a strong understanding of department services targets outcomes event attendance options stakeholder satisfaction behaviors and use an evidence-based approach to ensure maximum engagement from our students. The R & E Coordinator will utilize multiple platforms such as social media website on-campus and peer-to-peer to inform and engage stakeholders. This is a highly collaborative role that will work with leads managers director staff student peer program and partners across the MRU community on the strategies execution and best practices of marketing and communications initiatives.

This position is a replacement term role working 35 hours per week and expected to end December 15 2027.

Responsibilities

• Supportdepartment services programs and initiatives through marketing and communication strategies to meet recruitment and engagement targets.
• Responsible for departmental targets for student recruitment and attendance for workshops educational and networking events enrolment in funded projects volunteer initiatives and partner events.
• Meetpartner engagement targets and annual revenue generation KPls through innovative industry partner outreach in alignment with departments Relationship Marketing Framework.
• Provide expertise on all product and service design to maximize successful launch and marketing
• Responsible for the development of compelling content in compliance with MRU brand standardsincluding objectives audience analysis core message creation execution of video and photo productions content strategy and creative approach.
• Utilizestorytelling through content writing copywriting and editing to develop a wide variety of content for internal external and student groups
• Assumeresponsibility of departmental website social media accounts blogs podcasts and all other marketing and communication channels and tools.
• Actas a departmental communication trainer.
• Supportstakeholder engagement efforts through appealing and informative storytelling and creation of effective marketing and communication tools and assets.
• Continuously calibrateand improveapproaches and tactics to maximize student recruitment and partner engagement with MRU career related initiatives projects and events.
• Developand strengthensocial media presence based on market trends research post content on each platform and audience engagement.
• MonitorSEO and user engagement and maintain responsibility for continuous content optimization to meet recruitment and engagement targets.
• Grow Career Services network by connecting with relevant experts and industry professionals engage current students and alumni with relevant stories and content
• Provideevidence-based and best practicerecommendations for student recruitment and partner engagement success.
• Coordinatemeasurement of interaction processes with students and partners planned marketing communications; product and service messages; unplanned messages
• Utilizevarious models for data collection (quantitative and qualitative) to monitor recruitment engagement user experience satisfaction and learning outcomes achieved all to drive continuous improvement and a positive user experience.
• Contributeas a crucial member to the departments Partner Engagement Calendar and MOTAY (Map of the Year) inclusive of outcomes measurement deadlines and targets for both.
• Evaluateand providerecommendation to the leadership on the quality of value generating customer interaction processes.
• Monitorrecruitment data in real-time and incorporates strategies if targets are not on track.
• Support staff and student peers through training and assistance for marketing and communication platforms and software
• Research and maintain currency on relevant technology to help reach KPls targets and support business objectives.
• In collaboration with various department and MRU partners supports department services programs and initiatives through marketing and communication strategies to meet recruitment and engagement targets.
• Takeon other duties as required to support peak and low times of the academic year.

Qualifications

• Three or four year Bachelors degree or equivalent
• 3 - 5 years of related work experience including:
  • Experience with graphics and layout
  • Experience with writing surveys that elicit feedback on the user experience
• Strong marketing and communications knowledge
• Professional copywritingand editing skills with the ability to create content for various purposes and for a variety of mediums
• Creative with an eye for detail and composition
• Critical thinking skills to assess how and when to engage with our audience
• Exceptional interpersonal communication skills
• High proficiency with Google applications and Microsoft suite.

Closing Date: April 23 2026

A cover letter and resume should be submitted in one .pdf document. Please title your .pdf document as follows: Last Name Requisition Number Document (ex. Smith 1234 ).

Please note shortlisted candidates will be asked to share a portfolio of their work.