Talent Acquisition Advisor

Strategic Talent Acquisition and Business Partnership
- Two days WFH and Petone based office
- Collaborative People and Capability team

This is a twelve month fixed-term position that will support organisational growth and transformation into a new asset owning water entity. The remuneration range for this position is $86,230 - $121,736 (including KiwiSaver), your salary will be dependent on experience and capability.

**The opportunity**

As a Talent Acquisition Advisor, you'll partner with our People Leaders to source, attract, and assess great talent that strengthens Wellington Water's ability to deliver critical water services across the region. You'll draw on your recruitment expertise to understand team and role needs, enable smart hiring decisions, and support leaders through every stage of the recruitment journey

**Day to day activity can include the following**:

- Creating advertisements that clearly articulate opportunities and are marketed effectively
- Engage with passive job seekers by utilising tools such as Seek Premium, LinkedIn and recruitment agencies to attract passive job seekers
- Working alongside People and Capability Leads and Advisors to support resourcing scope and recruitment initiation
- Undertaking role briefings and build recruitment strategies that consider internal development and job market
- Creating tailored interview questionnaires and assessments that focus on behaviour and competency
- Participating in interviews and ensuring bias, inclusion and recruitment best practice are actively considered and managed

**About you**

**To be successful in this role you will bring the following**:

- A sound understanding of HR practice, and legislation in a change environment to provide best practice recruitment advice
- A minimum of three years internal recruitment experience at an Advisory level, with additional Agency or Human Resources or Recruitment Coordination experience
- Proven ability to build quality relationships with leaders at all levels as a trusted advisor
- Experience recruiting to a wide range of organisational positions and ability to tailor assessments to make good hiring decisions
- Intermediate administrative skills and utilisation of Microsoft business products
- A good understanding of recruitment Best Practice, and applicable legislation such as Privacy, Employment Relations Act etc

**Benefits**

At Wellington Water, our purpose extends beyond delivering great water services for the region; we foster a thriving community, support a diverse workforce, and offer supportive development opportunities. We genuinely care about your safety and wellbeing.

**Our benefits include the following**:

- Flexible working arrangements including up to two days working from home
- Comprehensive wellbeing programme, including one paid wellbeing day annually
- Formal and informal professional development opportunities

For a full list of our employee benefits: click here.

**About us**

Wellington Water is the professional water services provider across Greater Wellington and South Wairarapa. Our job is to provide safe and healthy drinking water, collect and treat wastewater, and ensure the stormwater network is well managed. We're a multi-council owned entity, tasked to manage the infrastructure and deliver water services to our communities.

The value of water (a precious taonga) sits at our organisational heart. Our people are passionate about providing waters services for our communities and environment which is reflective in our values; Tangata Tiaki, Whanau and Mana.

**Applications close on Monday, 29 September 2025**

**How to apply**

To view a copy of the position description: click here.

You must be legally entitled to work long-term in New Zealand and have an appropriate Visa to be considered for this position.