New Zealand Customs Service Looking for Events Specialist at Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand Full Time

If you have excellent planning and coordination skills, we have a great opportunity for you to work with teams across Customs and other agencies to plan high-level internal and external events, including international delegations and ministers’ visits.

These events and visits not only showcase the great work Customs does, but they are important for delivering our strategy, which is focused on protecting New Zealand and its economy from threats including transnational organised crime and fraud, and to support New Zealand and our importers and exporters grow our economy. Our work relies on good partnerships, and these are the focus of our events and visits.

As well as providing the planning and coordination support for external events, the Events Specialist develops key internal events, and provides high-quality advice, guidance, and information to Customs teams to support their event development requirements.

To thrive in this role, you need to have good planning and people skills, attention to detail, and show good awareness and judgement. As well as gaining great understanding of a wide range of Customs functions, you will get valuable insights into the considerations of Ministers and senior leaders.

To be successful as Events Specialist, the appointee requires the following knowledge, experience, skills, qualifications and/or personal attributes:

• Experience in an event planning and coordination role working with stakeholders, with relevant qualifications or equivalent experience from a related field.
• Excellent internal and external client service with a relationship management focus.
• Ability to build relationships at all levels, including senior leaders and international agencies with strategic significance to Customs.
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written, with the ability to communicate to a broad range of audiences across all levels.
• Well-developed influencing and negotiation skills with experience working across an organisation and influencing others to deliver without formal authority.
• Highly organised, with the ability to manage multiple items with varied and competing demands, looking ahead to anticipate potential risks and issues, while maintaining exceptional attention to detail.
• Experience in developing, maintaining and implementing efficient and effective systems and procedures to develop events.
• Display enthusiasm, determination, tenacity, and persistence to achieve positive results.
• Ability to think beyond the task – consider impact, consequences, and able to link to other work, and use initiative to see opportunities, raise ideas and be agile to change.
• Confidence to work independently and happy to get stuck into whatever needs doing to support the work of the Group.
• Ability to travel to support important events.
• Knowledge of the conventions, structure and functions of Government.
• High level of integrity, professionalism and discretion.

Working at Customs | Mahi ki te Mana Ārai o Aotearoa

We aim to create a great place to work, where our people have a sense of belonging and the capability and desire to meet our future challenges. We are an organisation that is clear about our mission, and this is underpinned by Te Pou Tokomanawa (the Foundations) and our Whanonga Pono (Values). Our work really matters to the safety and success of New Zealand.

We care about well-being, personal growth, and job satisfaction, which is supported through:

• offering on-the-job training, formal courses and leadership programmes, and the chance to move across diverse roles.
• fostering inclusive and supportive team environment with vibrant social and cultural groups.
• supporting flexible working – talk to us about how we can help you achieve your flexible working goals, within our operational requirements.
• providing discounted health insurance, and free on-site gyms (in some locations).
• Three days of service holidays, in addition to four weeks of annual leave.

How to apply | Me pehea te whakauru

To join Customs in any role you must be a New Zealand citizen or NZ permanent resident. *

• This means:
• a New Zealand Citizen or New Zealand Permanent Resident who has resided continuously in New Zealand for the last 5 years and resides in NZ at time of application; OR
• a New Zealand Citizen or New Zealand Permanent Resident who has resided in New Zealand for the last 5 years and resides in NZ at the time of application. You may have been absent from New Zealand for periods of six or more months within the past five years, preferably in one or more of the following countries: either Australia, Canada, UK or the USA. You will be required to provide overseas police certificates for these periods spent outside of New Zealand.

You must have a background history that is verifiable and can be assessed as appropriate by the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service towards a recommendation of suitability for security clearance at a higher level. Due to the nature of Customs work, you must have a clear Police record. The successful applicant will also be required to pass a drug test.

To apply, please submit an up-to-date CV and cover letter, via our online process. (Please note, we do not accept applications sent direct to an email address).

If you have any specific questions about the role, please contact Kasey Butler (Manager Stakeholder Engagement) at [email protected] or Suzanne Leahy (Senior Recruitment Advisor) at [email protected].

Please note Customs will be managing this recruitment independently in-house and will not be engaging with recruitment agencies at this stage.

Applications close at 11pm, Wednesday 25 September 2024.

New Zealand Customs Service | Te Mana Ārai o Aotearoa is a member of Diversity Works New Zealand and is committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive workplace. We provide equal employment opportunities and welcome applications from everyone who can meet the requirements of the role. We also offer flexible working arrangements.