Selection Specialist

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.

Experienced Recruiters - Want to Recruit Heroes?
- Based in Counties Manukau Police HQ
- 12 Month Fixed Term
- THE most important recruitment role in NZ
- JR 4784099

E tῡ ki te kei o te waka, kia pakia koe e ngā ngaru o te wā.
Stand at the stern of the canoe and feel the spray of the future biting at your face

Mō te tūnga | About the role
As a Selection Specialist 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 new police officers. While it may sound simple, believe us when we say it’s anything but - our robust process selects only the best people to wear the blue uniform 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 recruits 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 internal 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.
This is not a suitable role for someone without a high level of experience.
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.
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.

He aha taau e kawe mai | 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.
- Experienced in recruitment is essential, along with confidence in managing 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.

Whakaritenga motuhake | Special requirements
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.

These questions will be unique and specific to the role, focusing on the aspects the hiring manager believes are most important for that position at the time.

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Mo tātou | About us
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