Director of Communications
Te Whanganui-a-tara | Wellington
Permanent, full-time
From $159,793 (from 1 Jan 2025)
Purpose-driven work | Matching Kiwisaver up to 6.5%
Health Insurance reimbursement scheme
26 days annual leave | Work time to study Te Reo Māori
Allowance for Te Reo Māori fluency | Supportive internal network
About the role
NZEI Te Riu Roa is looking for a Director of Communications to join our team in the New Year. You will report to our National Secretary and your role will include:
- Leading the communications function at NZEI Te Riu Roa
- Coaching, developing and leading the communications team
- Supporting content development for member recruitment and activation
- Strategic analysis of the communications environment
- Proactive and reactive media work
- Coaching senior leaders and governance representatives for impactful communication
- Using political acumen to promote union/membership-based organisations
Skills and experience
- Leveraging the media to engage members and the public
- Experience in a campaigning environment
- Management of a creative team
- Commissioning and developing visual branding and campaign iconography
NZEI Te Riu Roa is committed to honouring and giving effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi. We particularly welcome applications from people with experience in te reo and tikanga Māori.
A full job description is available here.
Who are we?
NZEI Te Riu Roa is an organising and campaign-based union of members who work together locally and nationally to achieve the best possible education system for tamariki and the people who work in it. Together we take a strategic approach to achieving members’ aims, including the protection and promotion of the industrial and professional interests of members
How to apply
We want to hear why you want to work for NZEI Te Riu Roa in a cover letter that accompanies your CV. We cannot review applications without a cover letter.
Applications must be made here.
We will get in touch with you if you are shortlisted for this role.
If you have any questions, please contact mahi@nzei.org.nz
Applications close at 5pm Wednesday 4 December 2024.
NZEI Te Riu Roa welcomes and supports people of all gender identities, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, religions, and disabilities/ abilities. An expectation of this role is to actively support and promote our diversity and inclusion principles. We want NZEI Te Riu Roa to be a place where you can bring your whole self to work.
He ngakaunui ana a NZEI Te Riu Roa ki te whakahonore me te whakamanahia Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Me mōhio pai ngā kaitono, whakarite he maramatanga rānei o Te Tiriti o Waitangi. He pūtea mō ngā kaitono e matatau ki Te Reo Māori, a, ka tono atu mō tētahi wā mahi hei ako i te Reo Māori.
He whakaaturanga mahi kei tō mātou ipurangi.
Kei kōnei te wāhi pukapuka tono a, me tuhingia he reta hei whakamōhio ki a tātou ko wai koe, nō hea koe, he aha ai e hiahia ana koe ki te mahi mō NZEI Te Riu Roa.
Mehemea he pātai tāu whakapā mai ki mahi@nzei.org.nz
Ka kati ngā tono hei te Rāapa 4 o Hakihea 2024 a te 5 karaka I te ahiahi.
Ka tautoko a NZEI Te Riu Roa i ngā tangata o ngā mātawaka, ngā tangata o tēhea pakeke, o ngā takatāpui, nga hāhi, nga hauatanga/pukenga. Ko te tumanako o te mahi nei, kia kaha ki te tautoko me whakatuarā a tātou kanorau/iahuhua/matahuhua me ngā whanonga pono. Ko te hiahia a NZEI Te Riu Roa, he wāhi hei whakamana i a koe me tōu mahi.