Kaiāwhina Matua Senior Executive Assistant

Kaiāwhina Matua | Senior Executive Assistant (to Chief Executive)

Join an organisation contributing to meaningful outcomes, About Aotearoa, for Aotearoa - data that improves lives today and for generations to come.

Mōu | For you

Tatauranga Aotearoa Stats NZ are dedicated to diversity, equity, inclusion, health and wellbeing. We welcome every gender, ethnicity, ability, religion, age and background and encourage people to be their authentic selves.

**Starting salary**: $71,787 - $97,123 negotiable + superannuation
- 5 hours per week, flexible by default, balance life and work commitments
- Develop and grow your career (coaching, training, study support, secondments)
- 3 extra annual leave days (taken during Christmas office closure), see our careers site for other benefits and networks
- State of the art, brand new 6-star green building in central Wellington that caters to a variety of working styles and needs

Te tūnga | The role

An exciting opportunity for an experienced Executive Assistant to support our Chief Executive / Government Statistician.

You will ensure your CE is supported to be their best in every way as a leader for our organisation. You'll take ownership of your role and effectively manage the human, physical, technical, and environmental elements to ensure he is set up for every occasion. You'll bring a proactive, adaptable 'can do' attitude, and your unflappable disposition and eye for detail.

Nōu te rourou | What you bring

We encourage and consider transferable skills and experience gained from outside of work e.g., cultural, community work, sports, volunteering, or a comparable role in a different sector or industry.

**Tell us about any of the following in your cover**:

- Your knowledge and experience, or willingness to learn about Te Tiriti, Tikanga, Te Reo and Te Ao Māori.
- How you demonstrate, encourage or support diversity and inclusion in or outside of work.
- Examples of key relationships you've built and how and why relationships are important.
- Where you've demonstrated leadership, e.g., led by example, demonstrated problem solving, owned a project or piece of work, spoken up for yourself or others.
- Where you've shown curiosity and tried new things, taken on other perspectives, challenged the norm, learned, and applied or shared your learnings.
- Where you've demonstrated customer centricity, everyone is a customer mentality.
- Your experience supporting a CE, Director, GM or Executive and how you made a difference
- Understanding of the machinery of government and related processes and procedures.

We need someone who can consistently anticipate the CE's needs by staying one step ahead, remain calm under pressure and problem solve and manage challenges as they arise. You'll have:

- Experience providing advice, guidance, and support to others in the CE's office or organisation, in a tactful and discreet manner.
- Sound judgement, common sense, be proactive but understand the need to check and question sometimes to ensure the right outcome.
- Strong communication skills, written, oral and interpersonal
- Expert technical skills when it comes to office systems, setting up meetings and technology e.g. video conferencing, MS Teams, syncing diaries and phones, using Microsoft office and picking up any other technology
- Desire to work with a CE who cares about people, is on a te reo journey, likes cats, shoes, and has a very sharp dress sense

Ko mātou | About Us

Tatauranga Aotearoa - Stats NZ is a Central Government employer of around 1400 people across Aotearoa. We provide data and statistics to support the decisions of Government, Māori and Iwi organisations, businesses, NGOs and New Zealanders. Our work is About Aotearoa, for Aotearoa - data that improves lives today and for generations to come.

Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to apply

We encourage you to go to our careers site to learn more about working at Tatauranga Aotearoa Stats NZ.

You must have the right to live and work in Aotearoa New Zealand. Background and various pre-employment checks are part of our recruitment process.