Manager Recruitment - Wellington - Fixed Term

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

Manager Recruitment – Wellington – Fixed Term

• Be part of an organisation dedicated to helping our communities
• Fixed term or secondment opportunity through until June 2025
• Salary range $136,874 - $152,082 (pro rata), actual salary dependent on skills and experience

This is your opportunity to lead an amazing team responsible for a diverse range of recruitment functions, including our firefighter, volunteer and corporate recruitment.

Mō tēnei tūranga - About the role:

The Manager Recruitment leads our high performing recruitment function, which encompasses both employee and volunteer recruitment processes and projects.  Over the next six months, your key focus areas will be:

• Functional leadership of the recruitment function, including people leadership, team leadership, resolving escalations, budget control, organisational reporting, and media queries
• Collaboration with your Team Leaders to facilitate the creation or implementation of tailored recruitment strategies for their functional area of focus
• Partnering with our Marketing team (alongside the Team Lead Attraction) for the planning and agreement of the next application open round for Career Firefighters
• Driving process improvement to enhance the candidate experience and organisational value through process review, simplification and improvement.

This is a fixed term or secondment opportunity until 30 June 2025, and will be based in our NHQ office in Wellington. An immediate start date is preferable.

Ko tāu nā i tēnei tūranga - What you'll bring to the role:

Bringing a passion for leadership, you will be an inspiring leader who is adept at managing teams, leading leaders, driving quality assurance, and fostering stakeholder engagement to create a positive organisational impact.

To be successful in this role, we'd expect you will have:

• Proven experience leading end-to-end recruitment functions across a range of industries, not limited to corporate recruitment
• Strong ability to lead and mentor people leaders to achieve organisational goals
• A track record of leading and delivering quality project outcomes

The salary range for this role is $136,874 - $152,082 (pro rata), dependent on skills and experience relevant to the role.

Ko wai mātou - Who are we? 

Fire and Emergency New Zealand is a Crown Entity responsible for reducing unwanted fires, responding to structural and vegetation fires and other emergencies including motor vehicle crashes, medical emergencies, hazardous substance related incidents, natural disasters, and supporting increased community resilience.

Our vision is to build stronger communities and protect what matters most to the people within them. We are proud to be recognised as New Zealand's most trusted public sector agency. Our values reflect what our people believe is core to who we are and the organisation we aspire to be.

• We Do the Right Thing – Kia Tika
• We Serve and Support – Manaakitanga
• We Are Better Together – Whanaungatanga
• We Strive to Improve – Auahatanga

Ko te tono mai - How to apply:

Come join us - we are excited about the future of Fire and Emergency New Zealand, and we'd love you to be part of it! We value diversity as a strength and welcome applicants that can help bring a difference to our organisation.

If this sounds like you, apply now. To download a copy of our position description please visit our vacancy page on our FireJobs website. 

If you have any specific questions about this role please email nhqjobs@fireandemergency.nz

However please note, applications sent via email will not be accepted.

Applications close Monday 27^th January 2025.

Please note: Eligibility to work in New Zealand is mandatory for this role.