Advocate
NZEI Te Riu Roa
Union Advocate
Te Whanganui-a-tara | Wellington
Permanent, full-time
From $113,742 (from 1 Jan 2025)
Purpose-driven work | Matching Kiwisaver up to 6.5%
Health Insurance reimbursement scheme
26 days annual leave | Work time to study Te Reo Māori
Allowance for Te Reo Māori fluency | Supportive internal network
About the role
NZEI Te Riu Roa is looking for a Union Advocate to join our team in the New Year. You will report to a Campaign Lead and your role will include:
- Leading the advocacy, bargaining and coordination of all aspects of collective agreements
- Leading pay equity claims
- Developing bargaining plans prior to bargaining that build member’s collective power, membership and activism
- Briefing negotiation teams and member leadership groups involved in advocacy work
- Providing oversight of the implementation of agreements and lead processes (such as working groups) that take place between negotiation rounds
- Establishing and maintaining great working relationships with stakeholder groups
Skills and experience
- You can demonstrate strong strategic analysis and planning skills
- Understanding organising and campaigning unions
- Knowledge, experiences and understanding of collective agreements
- Bargaining or negotiation experience with strong verbal and written communication skills
NZEI Te Riu Roa is committed to honouring and giving effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi. We particularly welcome applications from people with experience in te reo and tikanga Māori.
A full job description is available here.
Who are we?
NZEI Te Riu Roa is an organising and campaign-based 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
- 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 4 December 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 4 o Hakihea 2024 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.
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