Senior Lead - Engagement | Kaiarataki Matua - Tuituinga
The goal of your engagement will be to ensure that key community stakeholders have trust and confidence in Stats NZ.
Kaiarataki Matua - Tuituinga | Senior Lead - Engagement
Join an organisation contributing to meaningful outcomes for communities, about Aotearoa, for Aotearoa - data that improves lives today and for generations to come.
About Us | Ko mātou
Stats NZ | Tatauranga Aotearoa is a Central Government employer of 1200+ 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. We welcome every gender, ethnicity, ability, religion, age, and background and encourage all our people to be their authentic selves.
What's in it for you? | Ngā hua ka riro ki a koe
We encourage you to go to our careers site to learn more about the Way We Work at Stats NZ and also check out our benefits. We want working for us…to work for you!!
Starting salary: $96,307.00 - $113,303.00 + superannuation
Other benefits of joining Stats NZ include:
1. Balance life and work commitments
2. Develop and grow your career (coaching, training, study support, secondments)
3. Contribute to meaningful work that makes a difference to all people in Aotearoa
4. 3 extra annual leave days (taken during Christmas office closure)
5. City based offices that cater to a variety of working styles and needs
The roles | Te tūnga
This is a permanent role based in Christchurch or in the South Island, reporting to the Manager - Community Engagement and Insights.
The goal of your engagement will be to ensure that key community stakeholders have trust and confidence in Stats NZ.
You will do this by engaging proactively with communities and networks, establishing regular touchpoints and ongoing mechanisms. You'll build strong relationships with your local community and with priority populations across the country. You'll work with communities to make sure they have access to products and services that help them meet their data goals.
You'll have input to developing engagement approaches to ensure they are meaningful and deliberate. The key focus for the next 6-12 months is building enduring relationships, embedding regular flows of insights, and supporting Stats NZ at external events.
Your team includes 6 other Senior Leads - Engagement who you will collaborate closely with, along with the wider Community Engagement and Insights team.
Our ideal candidates will:
6. Be confident developing strong relationships with people from diverse backgrounds, and using insights from these relationships to inform decision makers.
7. Be comfortable learning about and explaining data-related concepts to community groups
8. Demonstrate mātauranga Māori, fluency in te reo, understanding of tikanga and applying Te Tiriti o Waitangi in a work setting, or demonstrate a willingness to upskill and increase your cultural capability
9. Have experience in relationship management, preferably in a community engagement, empowerment, development context or similar means of collecting feedback from community groups on a wide range of topics
10. Have familiarity with organising events-based relationship building opportunities
What you bring | Nōu te rourou
We understand transferable skills can come from experience gained from outside of work. We encourage you to be you in your application.
We are committed to diversity, equity, inclusion and lifting our cultural capability. You don't need to be knowledgeable in all these areas already, but you do need to be on board with learning and have a genuine interest and willingness to grow on this journey with us.
Tell us about yourself in your cover letter, what attracted you to this role, and what you would bring to Stats NZ.