Source: Privacy Commissioner
Ko tā mātou mahi – The role
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Adviser who really wants to make a difference for all New Zealanders. Are you passionate about behaviour change and connecting people with the value of their personal information? The Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) is Aotearoa New Zealand’s privacy regulator. Our work helps promote and protect the individual privacy of all New Zealanders.
It is our responsibility as an effective, modern privacy regulator, to identify and address systemic and population-scale privacy issues, and to increase good privacy practice across Aotearoa New Zealand.
Our priority as an Office is to focus on understanding those parts of society more vulnerable to serious privacy harm, and on working with and through others to empower Aotearoa New Zealanders to use their privacy rights.
We’re now recruiting for a Senior Communications and Engagement Adviser to join our whānau. We’re looking for people who are positive, proactive and highly-skilled in:
- working cross-agency to identify communications and engagement needs and opportunities
- building partnerships and relationships to amplify messages and outcomes
- listening to the needs of organisations and communities and developing quality programmes and resources in response
- developing innovative solutions to communications and engagement challenges
- developing and delivering targeted behaviour change campaigns
Our Senior Communications and Engagement Adviser will provide strategic and operational communications to our Office, helping us tell the story of personal information and its importance to our wellbeing, both as individuals and as a country. They will be responsible for developing and implementing strategies and plans for our communications and engagement work across a range of priority projects, initiatives and audiences.
Ngā pūmanawatanga ōu – What you will bring
We’re looking for people who bring a mix of the following skills and experiences:
- delivering and evaluating communications strategies and plans
- working with media and stakeholders
- collaboration and co-design of programmes and resources with audiences of interest
- working with Māori, Pasifika and culturally and linguistically diverse communities
- digital communication platforms, including websites and social media
- building and maintaining strong relationships both internally and externally
- developing and delivering events both physical and virtual
- using data and insights to identify future and emerging stories and content opportunities
- juggling multiple projects and priorities
- creating publications and written materials
- identifying and managing communications risks
We are after an exceptional communicator and writer, great storyteller who can bring content alive across all platforms for a wide variety of audiences. You will be a fantastic problem-solver, able to proactively identify opportunities and risks and propose solutions. You will be a team-player, mentor and champion for our work amongst colleagues, partners, stakeholders and the public. Most of all, you will be enthusiastic, energetic and positive about the work we do and the value it brings to all Aotearoa New Zealanders.
To view the job description, please click here. For further information about this role, please contact Andy on vacancies@privacy.org.nz
If this role sounds like you, you can apply here.
Role closes Monday 27 June at 5:00pm.
OPC reserves the right to make an appointment before the closing date.
