Senior Advisor Sustainability and Resilience

New role enabling sustainability and resilience practice and outcomes
- Meaningful and impactful work for your community and environment
- Based in our Petone office close to the beach and shops

This is a full-time position of 40 hours per week.

The remuneration midpoint for this role is $127,816 (including KiwiSaver) depending on skills and experience.

**The opportunity**

The Senior Advisor Sustainability and Resilience plays a key role in integrating sustainability and resilience principles into Wellington Water's planning and operational activities. This position provides expert advice, strategic analysis, and coordination to ensure that Wellington Water's Three Waters services, water, wastewater, and stormwater, are safe, reliable, compliant, and affordable for current and future generations. The role is central to advancing Wellington Waters approach to climate change mitigation and adaptation, ensuring the long-term sustainability of essential water services.

**The activities expected in the role include**:

- Supporting the development and implementation of sustainability and resilience plans and policies
- Conducting research and analysis on emerging sustainability practices relevant to the water sector
- Preparing reports and briefings for internal and external stakeholders
- Coordinating cross-functional projects
- Identifying and evaluating opportunities for innovation.

**About you**

**To be successful in this role you will bring**:

- A relevant tertiary qualification in sustainability, engineering, infrastructure, environmental planning or applicable area of study
- Ideally 10 years' experience in developing, monitoring, and evaluating sustainability plans and policies
- The ability to influence culture and implement good practices across the organisation
- Experience in presenting and facilitating senior-level discussions
- Experience working across multiple pieces of work with conflicting timeframes and complexity
- A proven ability to collaborate effectively by surfacing key issues, bringing the right people together, and facilitating strong decision-making.

**Benefits**

At Wellington Water, our purpose extends beyond delivering great water services for the region; we foster a thriving community, support a diverse workforce, and offer supportive development opportunities. We genuinely care about your safety and wellbeing.

**Our benefits include**:

- Flexible working arrangements including up to two days working from home
- Comprehensive wellbeing programme, including one paid wellbeing day annually
- Formal and informal professional development opportunities
- Five weeks annual leave accrual will be available following two years of continual service

For a full list of our employee benefits: click here.

**About us**

Wellington Water is the professional water services provider across Greater Wellington and South Wairarapa. Our job is to provide safe and healthy drinking water, collect and treat wastewater, and ensure the stormwater network is well managed. We're a multi-council owned entity, tasked to manage the infrastructure and deliver water services to our communities.

The value of water (a precious taonga) sits at our organisational heart. Our people are passionate about providing waters services for our communities and environment which is reflective in our values; Tangata Tiaki, Whanau and Mana.

**Applications close: Thursday, 4 September 2025.**

**How to apply**

To view a copy of the position description: click here

Applicants for safety sensitive roles will be required to undergo drug and alcohol testing prior to commencing employment with Wellington Water. You must also be legally entitled to work long-term in New Zealand or eligible to obtain a working visa.