Stats NZ Looking for Senior Advisor – Communications and Engagement at Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand Full Time

Join an organisation contributing to meaningful outcomes, About Aotearoa, for Aotearoa – data that improves lives today and for generations to come.  

• Bring your creativity, passion, innovation, and ideas 
• Work in our brand new 6-star green building, or work flexibly 
• Contribute to meaningful work that makes a difference to all people in Aotearoa  

Mōu | For you  

Tatauranga Aotearoa Stats NZ are dedicated to diversity, equity, inclusion, health, and wellbeing. We welcome every gender, ethnicity, ability, religion, age, and background and encourage people to be their authentic selves. 

Starting salary: $93,177 – $124,651 negotiable + superannuation 

• Flexible by default, balance life and work commitments  
• Develop and grow your career (coaching, training, study support, secondments)
• 3 extra annual leave days (taken during Christmas office closure), see careers site for other benefits and networks. 

Te tūnga | The role   

We are looking for two Senior Advisors – Communications to work as part of a team delivering expert communication and engagement advice across Stats NZ.  These roles could be based in Auckland, Wellington and/or Christchurch.

Reporting to the Manager – Communications you will have a strong level of technical knowledge and expertise and will be comfortable supporting the business through a portfolio approach while ensuring work is aligned to the overarching marketing, communications, and engagement strategy.

This is a busy role, and you will be leading relationships and conversation across the business for key support areas, providing advice, recommendations, pulling out key needs, making links and delivering solutions.  You will have a strong can-do attitude, ability to problem solve and be a great team player.

Nōu te rourou | What you bring    

We encourage and consider transferable skills and experience gained from outside of work e.g., cultural, community work, sports, volunteering, or a comparable role in a different sector or industry.  

We want to hear about any of the following in your cover letter and CV any information relating to:

• About your knowledge and experience, or willingness to learn about Te Tiriti, Tikanga, Te Reo and Te Ao Māori.
• How you’ve demonstrated, encouraged, or supported diversity and inclusion in or outside of work.  
• Examples of key relationships you’ve built and how and why relationships are important.  
• Where you’ve demonstrated leadership, e.g., led by example, demonstrated problem solving, owned a project or piece of work, spoken up for yourself or others.
• Where you’ve shown curiosity and tried new things, taken on other perspectives, challenged the norm, learned, and applied or shared your learnings.
• Where you’ve demonstrated customer centricity, everyone is a customer mentality, collaborated with others and invited feedback, spent time with diverse people and communities to broaden your views.
• Your substantial experience as a communications expert with experience providing communications and engagement within the public sector.

Ko mātou | About Us

Tatauranga Aotearoa – Stats NZ is a Central Government employer of around 1400 people across Aotearoa. We provide data and statistics to support the decisions of Government, Māori and Iwi organisations, businesses, NGOs, and New Zealanders. Our work is About Aotearoa, for Aotearoa – data that improves lives today and for generations to come.  

Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to apply 

We encourage you to be you in your application! We are truly committed to diversity, inclusion and lifting our cultural capability. You don’t need to be knowledgeable in these areas, but you do need to be on board with learning.    

Please reach out to Danielle Coe – [email protected] to arrange a kōrero (chat) before you apply if that is what you need from this process. Or reach out to us with any questions at [email protected].    

Note: We will be screening applications as we receive them to move swiftly to interview shortly after the advert closes (depending on application numbers this date may change). You may be asked to complete a pre-interview screen via phone or video. Please let us know in your application if we need to make any specific accommodations during our process.   We encourage you to go to our careers site to learn more about working at Tatauranga Aotearoa Stats NZ. 

Note to Recruitment Agencies: unsolicited CVs will not be accepted, do not contact the Hiring Manager directly, instead reach out to [email protected]   

You must have the right to live and work in Aotearoa New Zealand. Background and various pre-employment checks are part of our recruitment process.