Marketing Coordinator - Higher Education

The Opportunity

As a Marketing Coordinator at OES, you’ll play a hands‑on role in driving student recruitment through smart, integrated campaigns. Working closely with our internal teams and external agencies, you’ll help deliver high‑performing media, creative and content across a variety of digital and traditional channels.

This is a role for someone who loves connecting the dots - between insights, creative ideas, student motivations, and results.

If you're a creative, data‑savvy Marketing Coordinator with higher education experience and a passion for shaping campaigns that guide students into their next chapter, this could be your next great move.

Salary Range: $80k - $90k AUD PA

What you’ll do

• Help deliver lead and enrolment targets for our partner universities
• Write effective, insight‑driven briefs for both media and creative
• Support the transition of marketing activity from external agencies to in‑house delivery
• Coordinate campaigns end‑to‑end ensuring timelines, budgets, and quality stay on track
• Strengthen the student journey through thoughtful, creative thinking
• Champion partner brand guidelines across every touchpoint
• Assist with budget management and reporting
• Build trusted relationships across internal teams (Sales, Digital, Marketing Automation, Academic, Finance, Data)

About You

• 2+ years’ marketing experience client‑side or agency
• Experience in the higher education sector (or adjacent industries with similar complexity)
• Exposure to in‑housing marketing functions: you understand how to collaborate with agencies while growing internal capabilities
• Strong understanding of acquisition channels (paid search, social, display, etc.)
• Confidence writing clear creative and media briefs
• Experience with content creation and working with creative teams
• Strong digital and data literacy
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Energy, enthusiasm and a creative approach to problem‑solving

About OES 

OES is a vibrant and values led organisation, and we are passionate about enhancing lives through education. We work with university partners, training institutes, and professional bodies worldwide, to develop and enable immersive and engaging learning experiences. We empower our teams to be student focused, innovative and embrace change with a growth mindset to ensure we achieve our vision of being the world’s most impactful enabler of education. We encourage our people to grow and develop through teamwork and a diverse range of projects, programs and challenging work. We trust our people to deliver, so when you work with OES, you will join a team who are empowered to impact every day. 

What’s in it for you? 

Along with joining a passionate, energetic and highly skilled team, this role will allow you to gain exposure to many growth and development opportunities. OES offers a hybrid, flexible approach to work, where we work 2-3 days from our state-of-the-art Cremorne office, and the rest from home (or wherever you choose!). Breakfast, snacks, table tennis, Nintendo Switch are all available in the office, as well as weekly staff drinks. Ultimately, you will be joining a values-driven, collaborative business where your creativity and innovation will be nurtured and celebrated. 

We pride ourselves on being a 'People First' employer and if you join the OES Team, you will benefit from:  

• Flexible, hybrid work for genuine career-life fit (2-3 days in our Cremorne Office) 

• Professional development and mentoring 

• OES Culture Club and events calendar 

• Health and wellbeing activities 

• Annual flu vaccinations 

• Paid parental leave 

• Purchased leave 

• Study assistance and leave for eligible employees 

• Mental health support resources and Employee assistance program (EAP) 

• Income protection insurance 

• Access to corporate health insurance rates 

At OES, we are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse environment, where we encourage candidates of any nationality, age, background, disability, and gender identity to apply. If you feel aligned to the role and would like to further explore your suitability, we welcome your application and would love to consider your fit for the role at OES.