Communications and Engagement Manager
2 weeks ago
Privacy is precious - help us protect it
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) is Aotearoa New Zealand's privacy regulator - a small, independent crown entity established to protect and promote individual privacy.
Ko tā mātou mahi - The role
Are you passionate about behaviour change and connecting people with the value of their personal information? As New Zealand's privacy regulator, our work helps provide Aotearoa New Zealanders with the freedom to express themselves and protects them as consumers.
It is our responsibility as an effective, modern privacy regulator, to work with others to identify and address systemic and population-scale privacy issues, and to increase good privacy practice across Aotearoa New Zealand.
Our priority as an Office is to focus on understanding those parts of society more vulnerable to serious privacy harm, and on working with and through other to empower Aotearoa New Zealanders to use their privacy rights.
We're now recruiting for an experienced and enthusiastic Communications and Engagement Manager to join our whānau. We're looking for someone who is positive, proactive and highly-skilled in:
- managing, mentoring and developing a passionate and high-performing team
- harnessing digital channels to reach and engage multiple audiences
- working cross-agency to identify communications and engagement needs and opportunities
- building partnerships and relationships to amplify messages and outcomes
- listening to the needs of organisations and communities and developing quality programmes and resources in response
- developing innovative solutions to communications and engagement challenges
Our Communications and Engagement Manager leads strategic and operational communications to our Office, helping us tell the story of personal information and its importance to our wellbeing, both as individuals and as a country. They will be responsible for developing and implementing strategies and plans for our communications and engagement work across a range of priority projects, initiatives and audiences.
Ngā pūmanawatanga ōu - What you will bring
We're looking for someone who brings a mix of the following skills and experiences:
- delivering and evaluating communications strategies and plans
- managing and developing teams
- working with media and stakeholders, and being able to leverage those relationships to drive improved outcomes
- collaboration and co-design of programmes and resources with audiences of interest
- working with Māori, Pasifika and culturally and linguistically diverse communities
- digital communication platforms, including websites and social media
- building and maintaining strong relationships both internally and externally
- using data and insights to identify future and emerging stories and content opportunities
- juggling multiple projects and priorities
- identifying and managing communications risks
We are after a manager who empowers and supports their team to deliver great outcomes. They will be fantastic problem-solvers, able to proactively identify opportunities and risks and propose solutions. They will be team-players, mentors and champions for our work amongst their team, colleagues, partners, stakeholders and the public. Most of all, they will be enthusiastic, energetic and positive about the work we do and the value it brings to all Aotearoa New Zealanders.
Reporting to the Assistant Commissioner, Strategy and Insights, this role will play an integral part in the Strategy and Insights function.
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