Kaitohu Matua, Pāpāho - Senior Advisor (Communications) Strategy
تفاصيل الوظيفة
Te Puni Kōkiri is the government's principal policy advisor on Māori wellbeing and development. We achieve strategic influence with a focus on providing high quality policy advice and holding other agencies to account for delivering public services to, for, and with Māori. This includes our mandate to promote Māori achievement in education, training, health and economic resource development along with performing our monitoring and mentoring roles. We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Communications Advisor who is looking to gain meaningful experience in our Strategy Team! The Strategy team is responsible for supporting the strategic direction setting for Te Puni Kōkiri. This team provides the Executive Leadership Team with relevant insights and context to inform strategic decision making and facilitates strategy development processes to make those decisions. Additionally, the team will also be responsible for the delivery of the communications and engagement strategy both internally and externally across a wide range of channels. They play an important role in engaging media, particularly Māori media and external stakeholders (including iwi, public and public sector communications leaders) to support the delivery and achievement of Te Puni Kōkiri kaupapa.
Te whai wāhitanga | The opportunity
The Senior Advisor, Communications plays an important role of supporting the Manager Strategy to deliver professional communications services and products to various client groups across the organisation. Given the diverse nature of Te Puni Kōkiri work, the Senior Advisor will have the opportunity to provide communications support on a variety of projects related to Whānau Taurikura - Thriving Whānau. The role reports to the manager of the Strategy Team and is based in National office in Wellington .Key Responsibilities
You will:- Contribute to the development and production of high-quality communications.
- Provide effective management of media services for Te Puni Kōkiri.
- Support the strengthening and maintenance of our brand.
- Contribute to the development of communications capability across Te Puni Kōkiri.
Minimum Requirements
Our ideal candidate will have:- Exceptional relationship management skills. Can quickly build in-person rapport with a range of stakeholders.
- Successful experience operating within a Public Service environment with knowledge and understanding the Machinery of Government, Policy process.
- Proficiency with Microsoft packages especially outlook, word, excel and PowerPoint.
- Presentation skills and the personal credibility to be able to speak with authority on behalf Te Puni Kōkiri.
- Strong knowledge and understanding of te ao Māori and are comfortable working in an environment where tikanga is observed.
- A high level of commitment to detail, quality, thoroughness and delivery.
- Demonstrated experience in a complex and politically sensitive environment.
Tāu e whai ai | What you will get in return
Te Puni Kōkiri is a diverse and rewarding working environment full of passionate people focussed on creating solutions that will help our communities. There is more to life than just work and we encourage our staff to maintain the right balance between work and personal pursuits. We recognise that a healthy workforce is a productive one, so we're committed to providing opportunities and incentives for our employees to look after themselves, including:- Optical allowance
- Provide enhanced parental leave provisions and childcare allowances.
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