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Blue Orange Yellow Illustrated Job Fair Facebook PostCentral Hawke's Bay District Council is focused on working in partnership with their community to ensure that Central Hawke's Bay is a thriving district, with efficient and appropriate infrastructure, services and regulatory functions. 

To enable this, we are instilling a culture of innovation and continuous improvement to add real value to our communities.

Experience the benefits of growing your career in a stunning environment and community. If you are interested in a career opportunity in an innovative and dynamic workplace check out our current vacancies below:

This hands-on leadership role will develop and implement the Central Hawke's Bay District Councils Communications and Engagement Plan. You’ll lead a team of four to deliver communications both internally and externally including taking a lead in stakeholder engagements to ensure strong community awareness. In doing so you and your team will have broad reaching impacts right across Central Hawkes Bay. Post cyclone Gabrielle, comms and engagement across this community has never been more important.
  
This will be suited to a skilled communications practitioner who has worked amongst diverse programmes of work. You will be leading and delivering strategic and operational communications plans and activities across this crucial district entity.  This is a high touch role, heavy in the detail and rewarding in the sense that the messages you and your team develop and communicate, will provide a real backbone of support and guidance right throughout the community.  This role will see you making things happen at a functional level whilst also contributing broadly to their PR and media relations at a macro level. You will work closely with the Mayor, CEO, and senior leadership team – your guidance will help ensure the community understands the purpose, function, positioning, and direction of their Council.  This role is hands-on by nature, and so you will be involved in the day-to-day work of your team – providing best-practice advice on internal and external comms and engagement, as well as ensuring key Council work programmes and projects of significance have good communications and engagement plans.  Your highly developed communication skills, professional approach, resilience, and confidence when dealing with a very broad range of stakeholders and audiences often under pressure will ensure your success here.    
  
We’re looking for someone sitting at the senior communications or marketing leader level who brings experience in leading teams that sit across a range of communications plans, ideas and initiatives.  You will bring an ability to write, capture and translate the Council’s values and key information into compelling and factual message.  Ideally you will be tertiary qualified in a relevant field.  Importantly you will be able to demonstrate that you can keep many things going at any one time and that you can take projects from their infancy to completion.  The right person here will have a really positive contribution.   If you have the combination of hands-on and strategic comms experience and you are ready for a move into a challenging and rewarding role here in sunny Hawkes Bay, then please apply through this portal, or feel free to phone the team at Populous People to learn more on 06 875 8446. 

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With a thriving district and strong connected community, Central Hawke’s Bay is in a period of exciting growth and development. With some of the best beaches, fishing and diving spots, water sports, cycling, family friendly places and events, and so much more, there are plenty of great reasons to live and work in Central Hawke’s Bay. 

About the opportunity:

Central Hawke’s Bay District Council has a great opportunity for a Strategic Governance professional. This role will be responsible for the provision of strategic support to the Governance function of Council in the undertaking of their responsibilities at both a regional and national level. Working closely with the Chief Executive and the Mayor, you will be providing expert advice and support.

About you:

In this full-time role, you will need to share the Council’s THRIVE values and its commitment to ‘smarter thinking’ so we can plan for tomorrow to futureproof Central Hawke’s Bay. 

Specifically, the core skills we are looking for are:

  • Good written and oral communication
  • Policy analysis
  • Ability to understand ‘the bigger picture’
  • A sound understanding of the machinery of government (local and central)
  • Good interpersonal skills
  • Special Consultative Processes
  • Demonstrated success in managing stakeholders and consultants
  • Demonstrated ability to lead projects and project teams
  • Project management 
  • A clean full driver’s licence. 
  • The legal right to work in New Zealand.

 How to apply:

If this sounds like your next challenge, apply via seek along with your CV and Cover letter by 25 March 2024.


This is a role for those who enjoy being hands-on and on the ground in the technical delivery of roading asset networks. You will need a strong technical competency in the planning, delivery and execution of road works. Planning, contractor management and a genuine drive to see results and delivery of good roading networks will get you out of bed every morning.


As Land Transport Programme Delivery Manager for Central Hawke’s Bay District Council (CHBDC) you will be responsible for the operational delivery of extensive roading maintenance, renewal and capital programmes across the Central Hawkes Bay District. You will managing multiple projects and programs, including monitoring performance and delivery out in the field on a day-to-day basis. You will be the leader, focussed on assuring delivery through the external relationships. You will be working closely between the Council and their key contractor and maintenance operators.


To be successful in this role you will understand contract management in the roading space. We have an open view on where you are currently. You may be in a local authority and ready to step up, or you maybe operating on the ground in contractors business and ready to make a move into a leadership role. You will be known as someone who likes to get things done and see roading programs delivered and completed. You must be able to assure strong service levels are achieved and you will be someone who strives for best practice and innovation to ensure value for money and affordability to rate payers.


If you have this expertise and you are ready and keen to be part of something special here in this region then we would love to hear from you. Remuneration reflects the scope of this role. And support for relocation will be offered for those needing to relocate. Please apply through this portal, or feel free to phone the team at Populous People to learn more on 06 875 8446.

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Central Hawke’s Bay District Council has a great opportunity in our finance team. The successful candidate will be motivated, well organized and customer focused person to fill this role within the finance team based at Waipawa office.  This role will join a small team and tasks will include supporting the maintenance of the Councils Rates Database (accounting for sales, subdivisions, revaluations, reclassification of land use, changes in service connections, contact details for customers), assisting with the reconciliation of database to Quotable Value, maintenance of Councils Direct Debit banking records, preparing daily direct debit files, ensuring daily banking's are allocated correctly to customer accounts, assisting with the annual setting of rates, prepare the quarterly rates invoices and rates inserts, liaising with printing company of the rates notices, ensure penalties are processed, write ons, write offs and legal charges action before instalment run is processed, deal with customer queries (phone, email, and counter), discuss with customers rates balances, direct debits, automatic payments, and rates rebates.

With experience in rates and database maintenance, the successful candidate will be a self-starter with a “can do” attitude and the ability to work under pressure with a smile. 

About you:

Ideally you would have the following skills;

  • Experience in rates and database management
  • Reconciliation of customer accounts
  • Reconciliation of database to external databases (Quotable Values)
  • Experience in management accounting
  • Ability to provide rates advice to customers
  • Ability to work with customers to ensure rates are collected in a timely fashion
  • Able to work with people across multiple divisions within Council, especially the wider finance group
  • Computer literacy and knowledge of Microsoft products 
  • Experience in dealing with a wide range of people 

How to apply:

Please apply via seek along your CV and Cover Letter.

The closing date is 5 April 2024.

Work Visa

Foreign nationals (excluding Australians) wishing to work in New Zealand must have work visas. All applications are tested against the New Zealand labour market. The standard work visa is for a two or three year period.

Spouses and children of working visitors must also apply for the relevant visas (visitor, student or work). Applications take approximately four to six weeks and cost around NZD250-300.

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