Farmer Events Manager

5 days ago

Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand DairyNZ Full time NZ$80,000 - NZ$120,000 per year

Flexible location – Lincoln, Palmerston North or Hamilton

Full Time (40 hours) Fixed term (6 months)

DairyNZ's story

Progressing a positive future for New Zealand dairy farming - Te whanake anamata angitu mō ngā pāmu kau o Aotearoa

We are full of people who have a passion for doing good and creating positive change. We leverage our collective strength by bringing the dairy sector together, helping farmers build more sustainable, profitable and resilient farm businesses, because a strong dairy sector means a strong?New Zealand.

Your opportunity

Are you passionate about delivering high-impact events that connect DairyNZ with our New Zealand's dairy farmers? We're looking for a dynamic and collaborative leader to join our team and drive the planning, management, and delivery of support for regional and national events. In this role, you'll lead the remotely located Farmer Events Team and implement our Event Support Plan, helping extend DairyNZ's influence through impactful and professional farmer events.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Leadership and management of the Events Support Team.

  • Implement our national Event Support Plan

  • Oversee a national calendar of farmer-focused events

  • Collaborate with marketing and comms to ensure strong event promotion

  • Drive innovation in event delivery and team performance

  • Ensure events reflect DairyNZ's values and deliver real value to farmers

  • Ensuring farmer requests and referrals are followed up effectively to deliver value and insights.

About you

You will be a great leader, able to provide support and direction to a remote team, be focussed on collaboration to deliver excellence and solutions focussed.

  • Strong leadership experience of remote teams.

  • Proven experience in event planning and delivery.

  • Strong collaboration and communication skills.

  • Ability to think strategically and deliver operational excellence.

  • Experience working in a fast-paced, multi-stakeholder environment.

Why you should join us

Make a difference - Together with our farmers, help us drive positive progress for the sector and country we love.

Check out the full position description here to read more detail. Applications close 20th November at 11:55pm.

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