Senior Recruitment Advisor at Ara Poutama Aotearoa (Department of Corrections), Canterbury (Waitaha)

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

• Join a passionate, cohesive and diverse recruitment team servicing the South Island
• Strategic partner with our stakeholders for specialist and leadership roles
• Christchurch based position

Mō te tūnga | About the role

Permanent Role

Ask those who work for Ara Poutama Aotearoa about what it is like, they will often say; the passion for making a difference is incredible, the work is highly stimulating, and you're exposed to a wide range of challenges and exciting opportunities.  

In this role you will be one of two Senior Recruitment Advisors for the Lower North and South Island recruitment team, while working connectedly as part of the wider National Recruitment team.   Your core focus is to be a trusted strategic recruitment partner to our senior hiring managers for specialist and mid to senior level roles.  This will be your opportunity to contribute to enhancing how we do things, align our function to our organisational strategies and provide exceptional recruitment support across the region.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Strategic Recruitment Partner; provides specialist and recruitment and selection consultancy advice, support and guidance to senior managers providing a range of strategies and approaches.
• Service Delivery; deliver high quality service and best practice specialist recruitment (mid to senior level roles) while providing attraction and selection advice, support and guidance to hiring managers.
• Building Internal Capability; building the internal capabilities of our stakeholders by delivering impactful best practice recruitment training/workshops.
• Best Practice Kaitiaki; identifying and mitigating areas of risk with recruitment activities, ensuring we hire the right people, widely sharing knowledge of best practice and drive continuous improvement of attraction and selection activities.
• Relationship Development and Building; build, participate and nurture internal and external stakeholder relationships.
• Act as an Ara Poutama Advocate; initiate, manage, organise and attend community events for attraction and engagement.

Mōu | About you

It's important to us you embrace our values.

• Manaaki (Respect): We care and respect everyone.
• Whānau (Relationships): We develop supportive relationships.
• Wairua (Spirituality): We are unified and focused in our efforts.
• Kaitiaki (Guardianship): We are responsive and responsible.
• Rangatira (Leadership): We demonstrate leadership and are accountable.

Ngā pūkenga me ngā wheako | Skills and experience

As a Senior Recruitment professional, you will relish the opportunity to work in an environment where the work is both varied and complex. All those ideas you have around attraction, candidate care and service delivery are welcome along with the following:

• Significant recruitment experience and able to apply best practice recruitment and selection processes for specialist and mid to senior level roles.
• Senior Strategic Recruitment Partnering experience providing senior managers with recruitment selection and consultancy advice, support and guidance on attraction and selection strategies.
• Solid experience and understanding of recruitment processes i.e. attraction activities, candidate care, selection and risk assessment.
• Relationship Builder with proven experience and skills, at building and maintaining effective partnerships with internal and external stakeholders with a compassionate and collaborative approach.
• Team-player who shares knowledge and consistently demonstrates behaviour that is mana enhancing (Manaaki) towards colleagues, managers and stakeholders.
• Experience within a Public Sector recruitment function where compliance with policy and process would be an advantage.
• Professional communication skills; written, verbal, including presentation skills.
• Culturally competent; can show an understanding (or an openness to developing an understanding) of operating effectively in a Māori cultural setting alongside an understanding and commitment to the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi
• Experience with the application of psychometrics for selection purposes
• A full drivers licence and the ability for some travel

Ngā painga | The benefits

The salary range for this position is $104,985 to $148,214 (midpoint $123,511). Appointment and remuneration will reflect skills and experience relevant to the role. 

Mō mātou | About us

Join Ara Poutama Aotearoa - Department of Corrections, where your work will contribute to improving public safety, reducing re-offending, and address the overrepresentation of Māori in correctional facilities. As a values-led organisation, we use the principles of rangatira (leadership), manaaki (respect), wairua (spirituality), kaitiaki (guardianship), and whānau (relationships) to guide our work and achieve the goals of our Hōkai Rangi strategy.

We value inclusion and diversity in our workforce, and as a Public Service organisation we are committed to building a workforce that reflects the public we serve. We strive to make our recruitment process fair, and we encourage you to discuss reasonable accommodations with us if required.

Tono ināianei | Apply Now

To submit an application and view the position description, click the apply link. All applications must be submitted through our careers site to ensure transparency – applications received via email will not be considered.

When applying, submit a tailored CV and a cover letter describing your motivation for joining the department highlighting relevant skills and experience and the alignment to our work.

Applications close on Sunday 15 February

If you have any questions or want to learn more about a career with us, contact kath.clark@corrections.govt.nz, or visit careers.corrections.govt.nz.