Senior Advisor, Communications
Environmental Protection Authority NZ
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Wellington • 🇳🇿 New Zealand
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💰 NZ$103,473 - NZ$155,209 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Partner with business groups to advise on reputational risks and seek communications opportunities.
- Develop and deliver communications for internal and external EPA projects and initiatives.
- Enhance awareness of EPA priorities and key projects through proactive storytelling.
- Manage media issues, including responding to media enquiries, supporting and training spokespeople, developing positive working relationships with media, and keeping up with media trends.
- Proactively seek media opportunities and create media releases.
- Contribute to and support the delivery of a range of EPA publications from e-newsletters to corporate documents.
- Simplify often complex and technical subject matter so that it is relevant, engaging and able to be understood by a range of audiences and suitable for use via various communications channels.
- Support the delivery of the EPA’s digital communications channels including our external website, our intranet and social media.
- Provide communications support and advice for the EPA Board Chair, Chief Executive, and Executive Leadership Team.
- Advise on and support initiatives to enhance stakeholder engagement.
- Monitor, evaluate and report on communications delivery, and making continual improvements.
Requirements
- Ideally at least five years’ communication experience
- Ability to creatively use language to communicate technical and environmental topics
- Communications planning and delivery skills using a range of tools and channels
- Media management
- Radar for reputational risk
- Initiative and problem-solving skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Good attention to detail
- Ability to manage a diverse workload.
Benefits
- Flexible working culture
- Flexible sick leave provisions
- Three additional paid leave days between Christmas and New Years in addition to four weeks’ annual leave
- $400 non-taxable payment for home flexible working set up
- Paid annual EPA Environment Day supporting the community on environmental initiatives
- In-house Māori cultural capability building programme
- Learning opportunities including the annual EPA Symposium
- Active social club and a diverse range of groups and support networks
- Organisation wide awards recognising both individual and team effort.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
communications planningmedia managementstakeholder engagementreportingdigital communicationsstorytellingpublication developmentlanguage creativitytechnical communicationevaluation
Soft skills
interpersonal skillsproblem-solvinginitiativeattention to detailworkload managementrelationship buildingadaptabilitycreativitycommunicationproactive approach