Growth Organiser

Growth Organiser Te Whanganui-a-tara
Permanent, full-time

From$104,433

Purpose-driven work | Matching Kiwisaver up to 6.5%
Health Insurance reimbursement scheme |
Vehicle provided |26 days annual leave

About the role

NZEI Te Riu Roa is looking for an experienced union organiser to join our team organising in private sector Early Childhood Centre worksites. You will report to a Growth Lead Organiser and your role will include:

- Using union frameworks to systemically recruit new union members and activists
- Developing and documenting recruitment journeys
- Communicating with workers the value of working in union
- Creating and implementing member growth journeys
- Systematically contacting members and worksites
- Using data and reporting against goals.

You will identify and work with greenfields (undeveloped) and lower density worksites to identify activists and leaders. You will then provide development and support while they organise their colleagues. When the member activist/leadership structure is developed you will hand over that site to a regional field team.

This position will involve travel across the motu and will require work outside of 8.30am-5pm to meet with members outside of their work hours.

Skills and experience

This is not a role for people new to organising. You need to have experience working to organise people either in trade unions or in a social justice space. You will be able to demonstrate tactics and approaches to recruit people systematically.

You will identify and work with greenfields (undeveloped) and lower density worksites to identify activists and leaders. You will then provide development and support while they organise their colleagues. When the member activist/leadership structure is developed you will hand over that site to a regional field team.

This position will involve travel across the motu, and will require work outside of 8.30am-5pm to meet with members outside of their work hours.

Who are we?

NZEI Te Riu Roa is an organising and campaign-based union of members who work together locally and nationally to achieve the best possible education system for tamariki and the people who work in it. Together we take a strategic approach to achieving members’ aims, including the protection and promotion of the industrial and professional interests of members.

NZEI Te Riu Roa welcomes and supports people of all gender identities, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, religions, and disabilities/ abilities. An expectation of this role is to actively support and promote our diversity and inclusion principles. We want NZEI Te Riu Roa to be a place where you can bring your whole self to work.

A full job description is available here.

Applications must be made here and include a cover letter that tells us about yourself and why you would like to work for NZEI Te Riu Roa.

Applications close at 5pm Wednesday 29 January 2025

He ngakaunui ana a NZEI Te Riu Roa ki te whakahonore me te whakamanahia Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Me mōhio pai ngā kaitono, whakarite he maramatanga rānei o Te Tiriti o Waitangi. He pūtea mō ngā kaitono e matatau ki Te Reo Māori, a, ka tono atu mō tētahi wā mahi hei ako i te Reo Māori.

He whakaaturanga mahi kei tō mātou ipurangi

Kei kōnei te wāhi pukapuka tono a, me tuhingia he reta hei whakamōhio ki a tātou ko wai koe, nō hea koe, he aha ai e hiahia ana koe ki te mahi mō NZEI Te Riu Roa.

Ka kati ngā tono hei te Rāapa 29 o Kohi-tātea 2025 a te 5 karaka I te ahiahi.

Ka tu nga uiuinga I te wiki ka timata I te 13 o Hereturikōkā

Ka tautoko a NZEI Te Riu Roa i ngā tangata o ngā mātawaka, ngā tangata o tēhea pakeke, o ngā takatāpui, nga hāhi, nga hauatanga/pukenga. Ko te tumanako o te mahi nei, kia kaha ki te tautoko me whakatuarā a tātou kanorau/iahuhua/matahuhua me ngā whanonga pono. Ko te hiahia a NZEI Te Riu Roa, he wāhi hei whakamana i a koe me tōu mahi.