Team Leader Writing

**Kaitaki Tīma Tuhituhi, Reo Māori - permanent, full time**:
We're looking for a creative individual to lead Te Papa's Reo Māori Writing Team, working in close and supportive collaboration with the leader of our English Writing Team. Together, these positions embody the bicultural partnership on which the museum was founded.

See the advertisement in te reo Māori below

**Te Papa**
Te Papa is a world-leading, bicultural, cross-disciplinary museum. The writers are the museum's storytellers, comprising permanent staff and project-based contractors. These staff work primarily on exhibitions and related audience-facing experiences across media, both physical and digital. They help to identify powerful stories, and create engaging and accessible text in te reo Māori and English - sometimes in parallel, sometimes one after the other (translation).

**Who we're looking for**
We're looking for someone who's passionate about connecting with broad audiences through creative yet concise and accessible text, underpinned by sound scholarship, and who's equally passionate about supporting the revitalisation of te reo Māori.

You must also be:

- a highly resilient and positive team leader and mentor, who remains calm under pressure, uncertainty, and change
- diplomatic as well as confident and proactive, and able to collaborate effectively with people of different skillsets and perspectives, including community-based writers
- focused on opportunities and solutions over problems
- highly organised, with an ability to prioritise and delegate as necessary
- experienced in overseeing text-development and design processes across media, physical and digital
- comfortable with resourcing, scheduling, budgeting, and briefing (project-management type tasks)
- highly proficient in Word-processing software and collaborative digital tools (eg, Trello), and familiar with design software and information databases
- experienced working in a bicultural/bilingual environment, or eager to work in one.

Reporting to and supporting the Head of Experience Design and Content, you will:

- help guide the creation of Te Papa's bilingual exhibition experiences, collaborating with other interpretive staff to do so - especially writers, curators, experience developers, designers, digital producers, educators, and public programmers
- manage the publishing process for all reo Māori exhibition-related text, ensuring that the highest standards of storytelling and accuracy are upheld
- oversee the provision of reo Māori writing and editing services to other internal Te Papa teams, assuring the quality of public-facing text.

You might have a background in publishing for museums, print or digital media, film, television, theatre, or education.

Applicants must have the ability to obtain and maintain the legal right to work in New Zealand.

Prior to Te Papa confirming any offer of employment, pre-employment checks will be undertaken, including criminal conviction history and reference checking as a minimum.

**Kaitaki Tīma Tuhituhi, Reo Māori - he tūranga pūmau, wā kikī**:
Kei te rapu mātou i tētahi pūkenga auaha ki te ārahi i te Tīma Tuhituhi Reo Māori, ā, me kaha hoki tēnei tangata ki te mahi ngātahi ki te Kaitātaki Tīma Tuhituhi Reo Ingarihi. Ko ēnei tūranga e rua te whakatinanatanga o te tikanga-ruatanga, koia hoki te kaupapa o te whare taonga mai anō i te orokohanganga.

Tirohia te pānui reo Māori

**Te Papa**
E tū rangatira ana a Te Papa ki te ao whānui i raro i tōna mana hei whare tikanga-rua, hei whare pūkenga-rau hoki. Ko ngā kaituhi a Te Papa ngā ringa tārai kōrero o te whare, he kaimahi tūturu ētahi, he kaituhi ā-kirimana hoki ētahi. Ko te mahi matua a ēnei kaimahi he tuhituhi kōrero mō ngā whakaaturanga me ngā momo ara pānui o te ao hurihuri, o te ao ā-hiko hoki mā ngā manuhiri. Ka huraina mai e rātou ngā kōrero whakahirahira, kātahi ka āta tāraia ngā kupu pārekareka, ngā kupu mārama ki te reo Ingarihi me te reo Māori - he wā tōna, ka tuhia te reo Māori me te reo Ingarihi i te wā kotahi, he wā anō, ka whakawhitihia ngā kōrero mai i tētahi reo ki tērā atu.

**Te tangata tōtika**
Kei te rapu mātou i tētahi tangata e ngākaunui ana ki te tūhono atu ki te iwi whānui mā ngā tuhinga auaha, ā, me hāngai āna tuhinga, me mārama hoki. He mea tuhituhi āna kōrero i runga i te mātau, ā, me ngākaunui anō te tangata ki te hāpai i te whakarauoratanga mai o te reo Māori.

Ngā āhuatanga tōtika:

- he ngākau titikaha, he kaiārahi manaaki, he tauira tōtika - he toka tū mārire, ahakoa ngā ākinga ā-hau, ā-tai rānei
- he kaitakawaenga māia, he kaikōkiri e mātau ana ki te mahi ngātahi ki te huhua o ngā tāngata ahakoa te rerekē o ngā pūkenga me ngā tirohanga, arā, ko ngā kaituhi nō te hapori hoki
- he tangata e mōhio ana ki te kimi i ngā ara whaihua me ngā whakautu, kaua ko ngā raruraru
- he mātanga ki te whakahaere kaupapa, ki te whakaraupapa