Senior Communications

3 weeks ago


Auckland City, New Zealand Auckland Council Full time

Permanent, full-time opportunity at Eke Panuku, Auckland Council’s urban regeneration agency
- Lead and implement multi-channel communications and engagement strategies for Wynyard Quarter, one of NZs most masterplanned, award-winning neighbourhoods A fast-paced role with a high degree of public scrutiny, working across a range of urban regeneration disciplines: property, urban design, community engagement, sustainability, placemaking

**He angitūtanga: The opportunity**

Join the Eke Panuku Development Auckland team in a key role to realise our vision: "Creating Amazing Places".

The urban regeneration of Wynyard Quarter and Auckland’s city centre waterfront has set the benchmark for brownfields development in Auckland. Part of its success has been a multi-year, integrated communications and engagement strategy that engages local communities and key decision-makers.

This opportunity is a full-time, permanent Senior Communications and Engagement Advisor in the Communications and Engagement team.

Reporting to the Head of Communications and Engagement, this role works collaboratively with a high-performing communications and engagement team that will support you to strategize and deploy multi-channel tactics.

You will have good project management skills, a solid understanding of the tools and techniques needed to engage people through innovative strategies, and you will be able to support project teams to deliver on time and on budget. With a finely tuned risk and opportunity radar, you will be able to identify and mitigate risks early or identify and maximise storytelling opportunities where available.

**He kōrero mōu: About you**
You are:

- Curious - You’re inquisitive about our city and its many neighbourhoods, the many disciplines required to best serve our communities and urban regeneration
- Relationship-led - You have the skills to build and maintain strong, trusting relationships with a wide range of people from your priority location director to politicians, internal stakeholders, to community groups
- Strategic - You’re able to identify any issues and risks, and build plans to leverage or mitigate them

**You have**:

- 7 - 10 years’ experience in strategic communications and engagement planning and delivery at senior advisor or advisor level
- Experience in or exposure to an account/relationship management environment
- Experience with communications and engagement tools, techniques and channels
- Related specialist skills, e.g. marketing, public relations, change communications, event management ideally in a property or related business
- Proven ability to build relationships with people at all levels
- Previous exposure to successfully working in a collaborative/matrix environment and demonstrated knowledge of, or a willingness to gain an understanding of te ao Māori and promote tikanga and te reo Māori
- Knowledge of, or a willingness to gain an appreciation of te Tiriti o Waitangi (the Treaty of Waitangi) as it applies in the public sector

**Ngā āhuatanga kei a mātou: What we offer**
We’re visionaries leading the way in sustainable urban development. You’ll join a team embracing diversity with a culture built on its people spirit. Our salaries are competitive, we love flexible working and we’re all here to inspire one another. This is your chance to make a positive contribution to the future of Tāmaki Makaurau.

In return for your hard work, you can expect a flexible and supportive work environment. Ehara taku toa, he takitahi, he toa takitini - My success is not mine alone, but the success of many. We aim to have a fun workplace where people have opportunities to learn and grow.

You’ll have access to a range of fantastic Auckland Council benefits, including discounted Leisure Centre membership and a range of other partnership discounts

**Applications close on**: Wednesday 10th April 2024
**Please find the Position Description** here
- Please note: Qualification Checks may be conducted along with relevant pre-employment checks required for employment with Eke Panuku._
- Our employer Kiwisaver contribution is additional to base salary offered_
- Eke Panuku Development Auckland is a council controlled organisation (CCO). Eke Panuku rejuvenates town centres - from small projects that refresh a site or building, to major transformations of town centres or neighbourhoods._
- Our name has a long whakapapa. Eke Panuku is derived from the whakataukī (proverb) Eke Panuku, Eke Tangaroa, which acknowledges the unseen energies of the land and sea. In te ao Māori, Māori mihi to Tangaroa (Atua of the sea) to inspire success, excellence, and progress. We have a role in supporting mana whenua as the kaitiaki [guardians] of Tāmaki Makaurau._
- Eke Panuku strongly encourages our employees to be fully vaccinated._

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