Talent Pathway Advisor

New Zealand Police is working with the community to make New Zealanders be safe and feel safe. With over 13,000 staff, we provide policing services 24 hours a day, every day. We operate by land, sea and air, manage over 860,000 emergency calls a year and are always actively preventing crime and crashes.

We’re working towards specific goals and targets that highlight our intent to work collaboratively with iwi and communities, other government sectors and business partners to deliver ‘Our Business’ and achieve long-term change.

Recruitment with a real purpose, it starts with you
- Multiple 12 month Fixed Term opportunities, Akld (Manukau) & Wgtn (Porirua)
- THE most important recruitment role in NZ
- Free Parking and Gym
- Salary starting from $73,207

About the Role
As a Recruitment Advisor for NZ Police, you’ll work with some of the best recruiters in NZ delivering real benefit on a national level.
Your role will involve managing the end to end recruitment of all roles (Employee & Constabulary) within NZ Police. While it may sound simple, believe us when we say it’s anything but - our robust process selects only the best people The net result of what we do keeps our communities safer every day.

Our busy, supportive, and collaborative team work together to ensure the consistent delivery of high-quality police staff across the country. This really is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced individual who is passionate about recruitment to join a highly successful team.

You will have experience in end to end recruitment at Advisory level, with previous success achieved in a high volume, fast paced recruitment role or a relationship and service based (rather than solely dollar driven) agency position. Either way your reputation has been hard won, but is well deserved.

Attention to detail and top-level service are your key drivers, as are your familiarity and comfort with compliance-based recruitment tools and systems. Proven experience managing senior level stakeholder relationships is also key to being successful in this position. Our team is responsible for continuous improvement initiatives to ensure we’re delivering the best recruitment service possible. We work collaboratively across the organisation with various workgroups and with our external recruitment partners.

Being able to demonstrate superior competency in behavioural based interviewing, supplemented by psychometric assessment tools and their use in the selection process is essential.
You will enjoy being part of a professional (and fun), high functioning team, have sound judgement, an eye for detail and an ability to build rapport with a wide range of people from different backgrounds and cultures.

**Key Accountabilities**:

- High volume recruitment advisory
- Talent Selection
- Applicant care/management
- Building relationships with hiring managers
- Contributing to continuous improvement initiatives
- Strong experience of developing solutions and managing challenging conversations with both applicants and stakeholders.

What you’ll bring
Being part of the Police whānau is about being our best to ensure our communities are safe and feel safe. Our Core Competencies provide a shared understanding of the behaviours, leadership and technical competence required for success at each level of Police. Whilst we are looking for skills, knowledge and experience relevant to the role, we also place high importance on your state of mind, the alignment of your values with ours, your ability to contribute to and build high performing teams, and the way that you lead yourself or others.
- Experience in recruitment is essential, along with confidence in managing high workloads with sometimes conflicting deadlines.
- This role requires someone who demonstrates the ability to take the initiative to solve problems and make decisions.
- An understanding of recruitment systems and end to end recruitment.
- Whilst we are looking for skills, knowledge and experience relevant to role we also place a high emphasis on your mindset, your alignment with our values, your ability to work in a high performing team and self leadership.
- Our team is inclusive and enjoys a supportive team culture, applicants will need to demonstrate their ability to engage the characteristics of a high performing team.

This role is set at Individual Contributor level, this means your key purpose is “to deliver or enable others to deliver Our Business”.

We will ask you questions based on “How we will deliver Our Business - Core Competencies” and the appropriate role level, i.e. Individual Contributor. For more information on Our Core Competencies, please copy and paste this

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About us
Our mission is to prevent crime and harm through exceptional policing. Our vision is to be the safest country. Our purpose is to ensure everybody can be safe and feel safe.

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