Communications Advisor

1 week ago

Hamilton, New Zealand Waikato Regional Council Full time

**Mō te tūranga | About the role**
- Sitting within the Communications team, you’ll be part of an in-house Communications and Marketing section, which includes design and digital channels, as well as social media.
- With this expertise at your fingertips, you’re well positioned to ensure the communications plans you develop roll out successfully with engaging content that reflect trends and best practice, and achieve agreed outcomes.
- This is a generalist role that provides communications support across our organisation, so you’ll be comfortable switching between multiple tasks and projects.
- Ideally, you’ll have some event management and internal communications experience.
- Analytical skills are important too, so you can report on and continuously improve the work you do against agreed metrics.

**Mō te tangata | About you**
- At least 3-5 years’ relevant experience delivering communications support and advice.
- Outgoing and confident and thrive working in a high pressure, fast-paced and ever-changing environment.
- Attention to detail and pride yourself on getting the job done.
- Able to write engaging content for print and digital, and have experience delivering multi-channel campaigns. Managing media is in your repertoire too.
- Excellent communication skills - written and verbal.
- Strategic and tactical thinking skills.
- Political awareness and skill in dealing with sensitive and confidential issues (including bi-cultural sensitivity).
- Proven success at building relationships and resolving issues with internal and external stakeholders.

**Mō ngā pūkenga | Qualifications and experience**
- Degree in communications, marketing, public relations or a related field.

**Mō te tīma | About the team**
- We are a focused and engaged team, constantly looking to improve what we do. So you’ll fit right in if you’re someone with a can-do attitude, eye for detail and clever ideas.
- Team culture is important to us - we celebrate our wins and successes, are solutions oriented, and committed to supporting each other to get the job done.
- Our backgrounds and experience are diverse, and we relish the opportunity to learn from each other.

**Mō mātou | About us**

We work hard to care for the mighty Waikato, so current and future generations will benefit from a healthy environment, vibrant communities and strong economy.

Our mahi is as diverse as the region we care for and the people who share it. Our work helps look after our region's water, soil, air, geothermal areas and coasts - so we can all enjoy these precious resources for generations to come.

Customers sit at the heart of everything we do, and all staff have an important role to play in the delivery of exceptional customer service.

If you’d like to understand more about what we do, please click here The work we do | Waikato Regional Council.

By partnering with iwi and working with many others in our communities, our collective kaitiakitanga will make the Waikato region even better. Together, we’ll create a sustainable future that will make a positive difference to people’s lives.

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