Coordinator: Living and Learning

Closing date yi 8 ka June 2026

The Division for Student Development and Support (SDS) plays a leading role in creating a holistically focused, enabling environment and provides excellent opportunities for students to develop to their full potential as active scholars and socially responsive leaders in South Africa.
Applications for the post of Coordinator: Living-Learning at Reslife, are invited from dynamic and vibrant professionals who constantly strive for personal growth, self-improvement, and excellent service to others. It is essential that applicants can demonstrate relevant student housing experience at a tertiary level; they must be client and service oriented and passionate about students and their curricular and co-curricular development and well-being.
The successful candidate will be responsible for the planning, implementation, and maintenance of Living-Learning Communities for the UWC Residential Services (RS) (including private accommodation), as well as the development of monitoring and evaluation practices for co-curricular (training, development, and support) initiatives across Student Communities.
The incumbent is furthermore responsible for driving holistic, research-informed academic and psychosocial support programmes and using research activities to develop impact assessments around these programmes.

Honours Degree in Psychology or Degree in Social Work (NQF 8);
Current SACSSP or HPCSA registration;
5 years relevant experience;
2 years demonstrated evidence of involvement in training/workshop/seminar development and facilitation with large and small groups;
2 years supervision experience in a clinical/counselling setting;
Familiarity with working in an academic/residence environment in the Higher Education context as well as working directly with tertiary students in the co-curricular space;
Demonstrated ability to network across various organisation;
Must have a valid driver’s license;
Must be prepared to work after hours when required.

Integrity and discretion
Sound Judgement and decision-making
Demonstrated leadership Skills,
Self leadership
Facilitation skills
Planning, organising, and monitoring and evaluation skills
Critical thinking and analysis
Excellent interpersonal skills
Flexibility and adaptability
Research and integrating recommendations fit for purpose
Digital literacy and technology fluency
Ability to self-start, use initiative, and multi-task while not losing site of critical details

Coordination of all Living-Learning and psychosocial support services offered to students living in UWC student communities (includes private accommodation);
Human resource administration and coordination of staff in the Living-Learning Office;
Overall coordination and oversight for collaboration between the RS department and the Social Work department in term of the final year Social Work department interns, and, overall supervision for RS Counselling resources caseloads;
Reconciliation and reporting on all RS research – based practices and activities in line with SDS;
Strategic outputs (includes but is not limited to all programming monitoring and evaluations, RS surveys and other student and student-staff feedback in respect of RS’ Living-Learning strategy);
Cultivating relationships with various faculty members and other departments for sustained involvement in academically related activities in the Living-Learning spaces.

In your application, you are encouraged to highlight your strengths and include anything else you deem exceptional and outstanding to be considered by the selection panel.
In addition, please attach a cover letter motivating your suitability, a detailed curriculum vitae including contact details of three referees, and your highest qualification to your online profile.