Closing date: Friday 26 July 2024
Principal Support Officer Taranaki, Bay of Plenty and Waikato
Hamilton office based.
From $92,953
Purpose-driven work | Matching Kiwisaver up to 6.5%
Health Insurance reimbursement scheme | 26 days annual leave
Vehicle provided | Supportive internal network
Are you awesome at:
Empowering people and supporting them to influence change
Coordinating and communicating with groups
Understanding the professional and industrial interests of principals
Tasks are varied and include:
Recruiting, organising and supporting principals in your region
Planning local actions with staff and union members
Representing individual principals with employment issues
This role sees you engaging with principals on union kaupapa and the issues that directly impact them. You will work to empower principals to join together to make a difference to their working lives. If you want to support principals to have a strong voice in their union then we would like to hear from you. To be successful in this role you will need to have strong experience with schools and with unionism.
You will spend at least a day a week in our Hamilton office and the rest of the week meeting members within your region: Taranaki, Waikato and Bay of Plenty
We really value great ideas and enthusiasm and look forward to hearing from you about the skills you can bring to this role.
NZEI Te Riu Roa is committed to honouring and giving effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Candidates should either have or be committed to developing an understanding of Te Tiriti. We particularly welcome applications from people with experience in te reo and tikanga Māori. We have an allowance for fluent speakers of Te Reo Māori and offer work-time to study Te Reo Māori.
A full job description is available here.
Applications must be made here: and include a cover letter that tells us about yourself and why you would like to work for NZEI Te Riu Roa.
If you have any questions, please contact mahi@nzei.org.nz
Applications close at 5pm Wednesday 26 July, 2024
Interviews will take place from 30 July, 2024
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.
Kei kōnei te wāhi pukapuka tono: 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 26 o Hōngongoi 2024 a te 5 karaka I te ahiahi.
Ka tu nga uiuinga I te wiki ka timata I te 30 o Hōngongoi
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