The Communications Specialist – Budget and External Communications is expected to have a high degree of political awareness, outstanding English language skills, and uses their initiative, judgement and knowledge to deliver quality, fit for audience communications material. 

Are you passionate about fostering positive behaviour and creating a thriving learning environment for students? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join our team as a Positive Behaviour for Learning (PB4L) Schoolwide Practitioner in the Bay of Plenty region. 

This is a very special role bringing together evaluation and data science to focus on emerging questions about the progress and growth of students and the value and impact of charter schools.

Working closely with the Capital Works team, Project Delivery Managers, and Project Coordinators, the position ensures timely project updates, accurate reporting, and effective financial oversight, while contributing to continuous improvement of project accounting processes and the effective use of capital works information systems. 

This role sits at the intersection of innovation and transformation, ensuring Māori medium learners can access the knowledge and skills needed to succeed across both Māori and English-medium contexts.

Are you a detail-driven advisor with a knack for navigating complex information and tight deadlines? Te Poutāhū (Curriculum Centre) is looking for an Advisor, Business Support to help shape the way we respond to Ministerial requests, media enquiries, and official correspondence.

This is a varied role where no two days are quite the same. You’ll give practical privacy advice across a wide range of work, including projects, incidents and breaches, requests for personal information, new technologies, and policy and operational initiatives.

As a Speech Language Therapist, you will play a critical role in our region’s Learning Support team by:

Working to understand the impact of children and young people’s communication needs in the context of their home, education setting and community.

There are three opportunities available for a permanent full-time role as Lead Advisor based in Wellington. 

The Lead Advisor Learning Support National Contracted Services provides national system stewardship and operational leadership for the national coordination function for contracting services.

We are looking for an experienced manager who will lead service delivery through a team of committed professionals, delivering a range of learning support services to children and young people from 0-21 years. 

• Fixed term, full-time (until July 2027)

• Tauranga, Bay of Plenty 

We are looking for a Speech Language Therapist to be part of a close-knit, community-focused team that maximises learning and promotes social inclusion for children and young people with learning support needs.

Are you passionate about contributing to lifting the achievement of ākonga Māori? 

Work in a supportive team environment with a stimulating Policy work programme, including supporting te reo Māori in education.

You already have Policy skills but are looking for an opportunity to further develop them.

We are offering permanent roles in the Christchurch Office. 

As an Early Intervention Teacher, you will play a critical role in our region’s Learning Support team by: 

Providing high quality learning support in line with the Ministry’s practice framework He Pikorua guiding principles, strands, and goals of Te Whariki: Early Childhood Curriculum, and Te Whariki a te Kohanga Reo.

Two permanent roles available – one in Christchurch and one in Timaru. 

As a Speech Language Therapist, you will play a critical role in our region’s Learning Support team by: 

Working to understand the impact of children and young people’s communication needs in the context of their home, education setting and community.

We currently have a Pacific Student and Community Support role to provide high-quality academic support to students within the Division of Sciences.

The focus of this support role is to increase the achievement, retention, and pathway goals of Pacific students. Our approach to student academic support encompasses a holistic approach, also considering pastoral and cultural supports.

We have a permanent Senior Support Officer position available, based in our Albany office. This role has flexibility to support operations across North and West Auckland | Tāmaki Makaurau.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Communications Advisor who is a confident generalist, to lead and deliver high quality communications for the Ministry. In this role, you will play a key part in shaping and delivering internal and external communications, provide hands on support to stakeholders and trusted advice to the wider business.

We're looking for an energetic, savvy Senior Advisor to join us in in the Ministerial Work Programme team, fixed term or secondment through to December 2028 and contribute to the design and implementation of a new tertiary research fund.

We have an opportunity available for a permanent Desktop Support Engineer, based in Wellington. The Desktop Support Engineer’s role is responsible for the Ministry’s SOE Desktop services. 

We are seeking a Senior Scientist/Engineer to join Paihau - Robinson Research Institute to work on a number of applied programmes developing robust superconducting technologies for space applications