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Growth Organiser - Early Childhood Education (Tāmaki Makaurau or Te Whanganui-a-tara)

20 Feb 2025

Growth Organiser Tāmaki Makaurau or Te Whanganui-a-tara
Fixed-term (18 months) full-time


From $104,433

Purpose-driven work | Matching Kiwisaver up to 6.5%
Health Insurance reimbursement scheme 
26 days annual leave

About the role


NZEI Te Riu Roa is looking for an experienced union organiser to join our team organising in private sector Early Childhood Centre worksites. You will report to a Growth Lead Organiser and use your existing union organising skills and experience to

• Apply organising frameworks to systemically recruit new union members
• Develop, document and implement recruitment journeys (online and offline)
• Communicate with workers the value of working in union
• Create and implement member growth journeys
• Systematically contact prospective members and worksites
• Use data, regularly update the membership database and report against goals.

You will identify and work with greenfields (undeveloped) and lower density worksites to identify activists and leaders. You will then provide development and support to them while they organise their colleagues. When the member activist/leadership structure is developed you will hand over that site to a regional field team.

This position will involve regular travel across the motu and will require work outside of 8.30am-5pm to meet with members outside of their work hours.

Skills and experience


This is not a role for people new to organising.

You need to have experience working to organise people either in trade unions or in a social justice space. You will be able to demonstrate tactics and approaches to recruit people systematically. Education sector knowledge is an advantage, particularly Early Childhood Education sector.

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.

NZEI Te Riu Roa is committed to honouring and giving effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Candidates should either have or be committed to developing an understanding of Te Tiriti. We particularly welcome applications from people with experience in te reo and tikanga Māori. We have an allowance for fluent speakers of Te Reo Māori and offer work-time to study Te Reo Māori.

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.

How to apply


A full job description is available here.

Applications must be made here and include a cover letter that tells us about yourself and why you would like to work for NZEI Te Riu Roa. 

We cannot review applications without a cover letter.

If you have any questions, please contact mahi@nzei.org.nz

Applications close at 5pm Wednesday 12 March 2025


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 12 o Poutū-te-rangi 2025 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.