Principal Advisor Learning and Organisational Development

Permanent Full – time (37.5 hours per week)

Wellington

About The Role – K?rero M? Te T?ranga

This role will lead the development of learning and development initiatives to support the achievement of the desired workplace culture, and importantly the competencies essential for successful delivery on business objectives.

To Be Successful In This Role You Will

• Oversee and manage the development, creation, and ongoing review of e-learning courses in our Learning Management System.
• Lead and contribute to initiatives, that support our culture to enable and deliver to our strategic intentions.
• Develop learning frameworks and pathways to support both employees and members, and work with managers to develop leaders and build the capability of their teams.
• Conduct performance and learning needs analysis and evaluation of learning programmes and the uptake of initiatives.
• Design, develop and lead the delivery of face-to-face and digital workshops across the organisation.
• Be able to quickly form valuable connections with people to understand their learning and development needs and provide scalable solutions based on their requirements.

To Be Successful You Will Ideally Have

• Provide thought-leadership to facilitate the development of learning for employees, members, and volunteers.
• Experience in instructional design and excellent technical knowledge in Articulate 360.
• Ability to think creatively and out of the box to meet changing needs.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, especially across senior leadership levels.
• Experience in end-to-end programme and project management.
• Strong intellectual and emotional intelligence, thriving on a challenge to push through barriers and recognise opportunities.
• A positive and contributing team player and mentor, part of action and results driven team.

About The New Zealand Red Cross

New Zealand Red Cross is a National Society member of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the world’s largest humanitarian organisation. Our organisation has over 8,000 members and staff who contribute to the Red Cross’s mission of improving the lives of vulnerable people by mobilising the power of humanity and increasing community resilience. More information can be found at www.redcross.org.nz.

We are guided by our Fundamental Principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity, and universality. We help people and communities in New Zealand, the Pacific and around the world in times of need and support them in strengthening their resilience.

Starting with the hiring process, we are committed to having an accessible, diverse, inclusive, and barrier-free work environment where everyone can reach their full potential. We encourage all qualified persons who share our values and want to contribute to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace to apply.

Why work with us?

• Be part of a team that shares your passion.
• Our organisation is made up of diverse and dedicated individuals.
• We value our employees as much as we value their work.

Diversity, inclusion and belonging

We strive to provide an environment where all staff and volunteers can thrive and have a sense of belonging- at a systemic, procedural, and individual level. We are committed to represent the communities we serve and to increase diversity throughout our people and leadership.

We know that a diverse and inclusive team helps us meet the needs of our clients and we welcome candidates from every ethnicity, national origin, gender identity, age and those with a disability or who have additional mental health needs. It is important to us that people are free to be themselves at work. Both paid, volunteer and community experience shape the skills and knowledge you bring to your application, so please share this within your application.

Work That Benefits You

Creating a flexible and healthy work environment for our teams is important to us. We offer a wide range of in person and virtual roles to suit different operational needs, for casual and / or short-term contracts to full-time, permanent positions. Our benefits differ based on contract type and job level.

Work / life balance

We want our team to flourish in their roles at work—and in the many other roles in their lives. Offering flexible virtual/hybrid work for some roles allows our staff to balance their personal and professional priorities. In addition to a competitive salary package we offer, career development, annual flu vaccination, discounts on Southern Cross health insurance, five weeks annual leave.

Here Are Some Ways We Encourage This

Employee networks to support our colleagues from diverse backgrounds, Takat?pui and Rainbow Network, R?p? H?pai M?ori

• Green Team – sustainability network bringing together diverse knowledge to strength the sustainability of New Zealand Red Cross and the people we serve.
• The option to explore flexible working that suits your needs and ours.
• Development opportunities in te reo M?ori me ng? tikanga.

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