Internship at Rea

Opportunity for a tertiary law student to gain experience working at the Real Estate Authority
- Make a difference to New Zealand by promoting high standards of conduct and consumer protection in real estate
- Bring your diverse perspective and contribute to our work to support high standards of integrity in the real estate sector.

About the Real Estate Authority The Real Estate Authority (REA) is the independent government agency that regulates the New Zealand Real Estate profession. Our purpose is to promote and protect the interests of consumers and promote public confidence in the performance of real estate agency work.
REA is a high performing respected conduct regulator with a critical role in the real estate sector. We license real estate agents, oversee the code of conduct, continuing professional development programme and the complaints and discipline process. We are a proactive, evidence-led regulator committed to supporting high standards of conduct in the real estate profession and protecting consumer interests. We strive to understand and serve the needs of all New Zealander across New Zealand's diverse communities in all of our work.
REA offers a diverse and inclusive work environment. We welcome people who bring a range of perspectives, skills and experience including those who bring a Māori and/or Pacific Peoples perspective.
The Role
As an intern at REA, you'll gain work exposure to working in a regulatory environment and help us to drive diverse thinking in our work at REA.
The internship will be based in our inhouse legal team where you'll have the opportunity to work with and learn from experienced regulatory lawyers and litigators and get the opportunity to share your insights and perspectives. You may also shadow other teams working in complaints management and investigations. Work will range from legal research and writing, and supporting the administration of legal cases and regulatory services.
**The work may involve**:

- Supporting the Legal team in legal research
- Contribution to legal resource databases and libraries
- Drafting legal summaries and other documents
- Developing litigation templates
- Shadowing litigation lawyers on matters before the Real Estate Agents Disciplinary Tribunal and other courts
- Assisting in drafting legal documents, including submissions and memorandums for live litigation

You'll be supported in your time at REA, with a dedicated buddy in place, and plenty of mentoring and development opportunities. You will gain knowledge of a regulatory public service environment, the real estate profession and legal systems and processes.
About You
**Our ideal intern will**:

- Be currently undertaking tertiary study within New Zealand, having completed at least three years of a tertiary legal degree
- Understand or have experience in working with diverse groups of people and may bring a Māori or Pacific Peoples perspective to our work
- Have a genuine interest in working for a regulator or the wider public sector
- Have some administrative or customer service experience
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Ability to work independently and take own initiative

**Benefits**:
The REA team is welcoming, super friendly, collaborative and committed to making a difference for New Zealand. You can expect rewarding and complex work in an exciting sector that is critical to New Zealand. A great central Wellington CBD location, commitment to staff professional development and an active social club are amongst many benefits of joining the REA team
This will be a paid internship for up to 10 weeks, working 32 hours per week, based in our office in Central Wellington. There may be flexibility in hours worked within our standard office hours (as we want to ensure that you are fully supported).
The internship commences on 18 November 2024 and ends on 7 February 2025. Please note no work will be available during our Christmas office closedown period (24 December to 8 January).
Please let us know if you have any specific access needs to allow you to participate in our recruitment process.
**To Apply**:
Closing date 14 October 2024
Please note, you must have a legal right to work in New Zealand. Successful appointment is conditional upon police vetting and verification you are currently studying at a tertiary level within New Zealand.