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NZEI Te Riu Roa | Administrator / Kaiwhakahaere | Napier / Ahuriri

Closing date: Wednesday 2 July 2025

Administrator | Kaiwhakahaere
Napier | Ahuriri

Two jobs totalling 22 hours (0.59FTE) within one role:
Office administrator 16 hours a week (0.426FTE)
Secretariat support, Central East Area Council 6 hours (0.16FTE)

Permanent, part-time
From $66,424

Purpose-driven work | Matching Kiwisaver up to 6.5%
Health Insurance reimbursement scheme | 26 days annual leave

About the role:

We are looking for a Kaiwhakahaere to join our regional team based in Napier.  You will report to the Regional Administration Manager for your region. The role ensures the smooth running of the Napier office as well as efficient support to union members within the Central East Area Council.


•    Carry out administration duties to ensure that the office are well supported (using MS 365 and Teams, our CRM, Control-Shift and Higher Logic).
•    Generate weekly reports and send to Field Officers and Worksite Reps 
•    Arrange travel, accommodation and catering as required for members and staff
•    Support set-up for in-person events as well as resource production
•    Compile data from events and 
•    Ensure the office is stocked with all necessary supplies
•    Create mail merge bulk emails and handle member queries
•    Ensure that information about members within your region is accurate and current
•    Provide administration support to Area Council, including minute-taking and logging correspondence

Skills and experience
•    Experience with Microsoft 365 and using Teams
•    Confidence in learning and applying new software, such as software to arrange meetings and our Client Relations Manager (CRM) that records information about our membership
•    Relevant administrative work experience

Who are we?

NZEI Te Riu Roa is a Te Tiriti based organising and campaigning union of members who work together locally and nationally to achieve the best possible education system for tamariki and the people who work in it. Together we take a strategic approach to achieving members’ aims, including the protection and promotion of the industrial and professional interests of members.

How to apply

•    We want to hear why you want to work for NZEI Te Riu Roa in a cover letter that accompanies your CV.   
•    We cannot review applications without a cover letter.
•    Applications must be made here and these are the job descriptions:  job description 1 and job description 2.
•    We will get in touch with you if you are shortlisted for this role.
•    If you have any questions, please contact mahi@nzei.org.nz

Applications close at 5pm Wednesday 2 July 2025

NZEI Te Riu Roa welcomes and supports people of all gender identities, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, religions, and disabilities/ abilities.  An expectation of this role is to actively support and promote our diversity and inclusion principles.  We want NZEI Te Riu Roa to be a place where you can bring your whole self to work.

He ngakaunui ana a NZEI Te Riu Roa ki te whakahonore me te whakamanahia Te Tiriti o Waitangi.  Me mōhio pai ngā kaitono, whakarite he maramatanga rānei o Te Tiriti o Waitangi. He pūtea mō ngā kaitono e matatau ki Te Reo Māori, a, ka tono atu mō tētahi wā mahi hei ako i te Reo Māori.  

He whakaaturanga mahi kei tō mātou ipurangi: job description 1 me job description 2.

Kei kōnei te wāhi pukapuka tono here a, me tuhingia he reta hei whakamōhio ki a tātou ko wai koe, nō hea koe, he aha ai e hiahia ana koe ki te mahi mō NZEI Te Riu Roa.

Mehemea he pātai tāu whakapā mai ki mahi@nzei.org.nz 

Ka kati ngā tono hei te Rāapa 30 Hōngongoi 2025 a te 5 karaka I te ahiahi.


Ka tautoko a NZEI Te Riu Roa i ngā tangata o ngā mātawaka, ngā tangata o tēhea pakeke, o ngā takatāpui, nga hāhi, nga hauatanga/pukenga. Ko te tumanako o te mahi nei, kia kaha ki te tautoko me whakatuarā a tātou kanorau/iahuhua/matahuhua me ngā whanonga pono. Ko te hiahia a NZEI Te Riu Roa, he wāhi hei whakamana i a koe me tōu mahi. 

Contact person: Emma Rutherford