Kaitohutohu Matahiko Digital Advisor

Be creative and innovative using your digital skillset to connect with the people of Aotearoa New Zealand
- Fun, agile, and innovative team culture

Mō tēnei tūrangi mahi | About this role
We are seeking a social media specialist to join our join our busy and dynamic team. This is a permenant role which we are looking to fill as soon as possible.
The Digital and Insights team manage social media, video, web, intranet, and our consultations tool. We work closely together in an agile way, to connect our work and better support the Ministry. Our culture is collaborative, creative and fun.
We need to connect with people on an emotional level and create campaigns that change individual and collective behaviour. As a Digital Advisor, your primary responsibility will be to help run the Ministry's social media channels, working as a team alongside our Senior Digital Advisor and Digital Advisor. You will need a broad range of skills to be successful, including, writing for social media, content development and design, running paid and organic social media campaigns, community management, and working with external suppliers on video production. This will enable you to make content that pushes the boundaries for Government social media.
Understanding our audiences through analytics and user research is a core part of the Digital and Insights team's work. You will analyse social media posts and campaigns, to understand content performance and use these insights to better understand our audiences, measure our progress, and work out how we can improve.
We strive to be digitally inclusive, build te ao Māori into our work, and keep people's information safe. If you can write digital content in te reo Māori, you will help take engagement of our digital channels to the next level.

**If you are**:

- keen to further develop your social media skills
- tech savvy with a broad range of digital skills
- a team player who enjoys working with diverse internal and external stakeholders

then this could be the role you've been looking for.
Ngā pūkenga me ngā wheako | Skills and experience
Your can-do attitude, love for learning new digital tools and tech-savvy nature will not go unnoticed. You'll get satisfaction out of advising MfE staff how to best use social media and other digital platforms to connect with New Zealanders and each other.
- Excellent technical knowledge of social media channels for organisations including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn
- Experience running paid and organic social media campaigns for organisations
- Experience in creating and writing content for social media
- Experience using tools within the Adobe suite to produce creative and innovative content
- Experience analysing social media performance and audience insights to produce informative reports
- Understand how to create accessible content
- Excellent customer service to all our internal clients
- Experience making recommendations and influencing on issues relating to digital channels
- Positive, can-do attitude, helping to enable a diverse and inclusive culture

Whānuitanga Utu ā-Tau | Salary range
Salary range for this role is $77,280 to $93,565 pa. Appointment within this range will be based on skills and experience.
Ngā hua ka puta i te mahi ki MfE | Benefits of working at MfE
- a flexible by default approach to create a healthy work-life blend
- agile ways of working, allowing you variety and challenges across the organisation as we work as ‘One MfE'
- generous leave entitlements
- active employee networks including Māori Rōpū, Asian Network, Neurodivergent and Disability Networks, Women's Network, Tagata Moana (Pacific Peoples' Network), and Rainbow Network
- opportunities for development and education.

Check out other benefits of joining us and hear what our people say about Working at MfE | Ministry for the Environment.
Mō mātou | About us
The Ministry's purpose is He taiao tōnui mō ngā reanga katoa - a flourishing environment for every generation.
A key priority for the Ministry is building Te Ao Māori capability. This means we work with our Treaty partners to advance Māori priorities for the environment and for environmental success. We will be confident and coordinated in our ongoing engagement with Māori and lead the natural resources system in engaging for success with tangata whenua. We will grow our capability and capacity to accurately reflect Māori views in our work. We accurately reflect Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Te Ao Māori into our everyday work, by delivering on Te Ao Hurihuri, our Māori capability strategy.
We are committed to providing equal opportunities and actively strive to be a diverse organisation with an inclusive culture. We actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply. We are proud to be a Rainbow Tick and Gender Tick certified organisation and are committed to providing a safe and inclusive environment for everyone.

**Rā Katinga | Applications close**: Wednesd