Kaitohutohu, Pāpāho

**Kaitohutohu, Pāpāho** | Advisor, Communications
**Te Puni Rautaki** | Strategy
**Te Puni Kōkiri** | The Ministry of Māori Development

**Location: Te Tari Matua, Pōneke** | National Office, Wellington

Are you an energetic, innovative communications professional looking to grow your skills in a supportive kaupapa Māori environment?

Come and join our engaged and motivated strategy tīma as an advisor, specialising in communications. We need your innovative thinking and fresh perspective to support a broad range of kaupapa that is making a difference for our communities.

Based in Pōneke, Wellington this role offers great variety to your day, where you could be working on internal or external communications plans while working across a multitude of different systems and communication methods.

**Te whai wāhitanga | The opportunity**

The Advisor, Communications contributes to the enhancement of the Ministry's reputation with Māori, the private sector, media and government. They do this by taking a business partnering approach, helping develop and implement robust, well designed kaupapa communications plans.

This is a broad and varied position that includes.
- ** Communications strategy alignment**. Ensuring our communications outputs are aligned to our overall strategy and represent our branding accurately.
- ** Ministerial support.** Provide high quality and timely speech writing services to the Minister and contribute to the writing, proofing and editing of ministerial correspondence.
- Including drafting media releases, and supporting responses to media requests
- ** Brand Promotion. **Leveraging our existing and writing new collateral for external publications and domains.
- ** Internal communications.** Tailoring communications for our kaimahi, including posting important messages, regular newsletters and What's On information to our intranet pages.

**Mōu | About you**

This is a broad and varied communications position, and we are looking for someone with the energy and skills to match. You should
- Have experience in a Communications Advisor or similar position and can show examples of using digital and print media to reach your audience
- Possess excellent oral and written skills
- Excellent working knowledge of communications tools and techniques.
- Have the confidence to advice senior and executive leadership and the relationship management skills required to work with a broad range of people.
- Are comfortable working in an ao Māori environment and in situations where tikanga is observed. Have a level of competency in te reo Māori, or as a minimum the willingness to learn.
- **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 discovering solutions that will assist in serving our communities. We are guided by our values of excellence, valuing people and relationships, working collectively and being creative and innovative.

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
- Hauora allowance
- Te Reo Māori proficiency allowance
- Provide enhanced parental leave provisions and childcare allowances.

**Te Puni Kōkiri | Ministry of Māori Development**

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

Te Puni Kōkiri, the Ministry of Māori Development, is committed to 'Whānau Taurikura' - 'Thriving Whānau'. We consider that when whānau are thriving, so do their communities, hapū, iwi and all of Aotearoa.

Our people are at the heart of achieving this vision and it is our people who contribute to supporting Māori collective success by creating and maintaining relationships with iwi, hapū and whānau Māori and government at both a local and national level. It is this that enables Māori participation and success as Māori, and it is our people who will create our best future.
- Ka aukati ngā tono hei te Rātapu 24 Whiringa-ā-rangi ā te 11.55pm | Applications close on Sunday 24 November at 11.55pm._

**Job Details**:

- Reference #
13175- Posted on
13 Nov 2024- Closes on
24 Nov 2024 23:55- Location(s)
Wellington- Expertise
Advisor, Communications, Government, Strategy- Job level(s)
Advisor- Work type(s)
Permanent full-time