- Community Focused Engagement
- Lead a team
- Big picture thinking
Our client is a well recognised organisation in Tauranga. Its strategy and vision is all about engaging with the community; from business to the wider local community. As part of the vision reset, the community is at the heart of every interaction.
Our search is to identify a Workflow Lead within the Community Relations team. Reporting to the Community Relations Manager, this role will lead a team of specialists that support the effective delivery of community relations support services that enable activity leaders to achieve outcomes that put the community at the heart of everything they do.
You will manage and allocate all community relations workflow based on current and future organisational needs.
Critical to your success will be:
- A high level of client satisfaction
- The Community Relations team Hub operates efficiently and effectively across available resources
- Workflow is managed and balanced effectively
- Tasks are delegated or ‘pushed back’ to the business in a way that maintains professionalism and transparency of community relations principles
- Outsourced work retains visibility within the Community Relations team work programme
- Resource is managed within budgets set
- Community relations activity will be joined-up internally
- Advice and guidance is actively sought by key stakeholders, internally and externally
- Resource and demand is managed effectively while meeting business needs
Critical Competencies for selection will include:
- A relevant qualification in engagement and/or communications, market research or related field
- Public Information Management (PIM) trained
- Relevant experience to a local government environment
- A customer centric approach
- Excellent relationship building and influencing skills, including a proven ability to work with and influence a wide variety of stakeholders
- Demonstrated experience and ability to work with media
- Proven experience in managing multiple projects and people
- Proven experience in working with multiple cultural and diversity groups including iwi
- Strong ability to create and maintain networks as well as coach and motivate people
This organisation will provide a competitive salary to the right individual. It is a fantastic opportunity to take your communications and big picture thinking into an advisory role where the community is at the heart of the strategy. You enjoy working with a variety of teams and people providing strategic advice to all relevant groups. The executive team is passionate about what they do with regular stand-ups across the organisation. This organisation is going through change and looking to bring on dynamic and future thinkers.
If you are keen to take this further, please apply with your CV & a cover letter indicating the value you will bring to the role on the link below.
Job number 109805
Please be aware you need to have Permanent Residency or Citizenship to apply for this role.
For more information please contact Kate Williams, Client Manager - Digital, Sales & Marketing on 027 627 9381 at Beyond Recruitment.