'Kotahi anō te kaupapa, ko te oranga o te iwi' – ‘There is only one purpose to our work: the wellness and wellbeing of our people.
Led from our Chief Executive, we're embedding a culture of continuous improvement and capability across our unique operating environment at Ara Poutama. Nowhere else is quite the same – we have over 10,000 people at 151 sites across Aotearoa with over 80% who work directly with offenders. We also deliver instructional and rehabilitation programmes in high-risk industries, such as construction, engineering, construction, and agriculture – it's a diverse, interesting and complex portfolio to manage safety across.
Mō te tūnga | About the role
The Principal Health and Safety Advisor – Corporate provides strategic advice and support to senior leaders and their teams to enable ever-better Health, Safety & Wellbeing (HSW) outcomes across our corporate functions, the change portfolios they lead and the contractors/partners they engage. This role also provides leadership to a small but specialist H&S team to deliver on local and national priorities, including embedding good practice approaches to ensuring health and safety is actively addressed within project, programme and portfolio proposals/governance, inputting to strategic asset projects, supporting leaders to plan for, implement and apply all relevant HSW policies and procedures, and ensuring the completion of a range of H&S assurance and verification activities.
Full-time fixed term opportunity (mid-July 2020 to July 2021). This role is ideally based in Wellington but location flexibility can be offered to the right candidate.
Ngā pūkenga e kimi ana mātou | Skills we look for
To be successful, we are looking for evidence of the following key skills and experience in your application:
- A relevant tertiary qualification in health and safety;
- Demonstrated experience providing strategic health and safety advice, guidance and support to senior leaders and their teams that influences improved HSW outcomes, ideally across a large and complex organisation;
- Experience leading health and safety professionals to deliver an annual work programme and advisory service;
- Strong technical experience and analytical capability, including the assessment, triaging and detailed consideration of health and safety within project proposals, Idea/concept Briefs and Investment Cases;
- Excellent problem solver - able to use technical health and safety knowledge and understanding to provide options for reducing organisational risk profile;
- Outstanding written communication skills - able to succinctly articulate relevant health and safety risks, issues and matters that senior leaders need to be aware of and consider;
- Proven experience of supporting senior leaders on H&S matters, able to build positive relationships as a trusted advisor;
- Demonstrated ability to balance national strategic priorities with business unit needs and interests; and
- Robust attention to detail and strong focus on quality assurance of outputs and deliverables.
Tono ināianei | Apply now
To apply, submit your CV and a tailored cover letter (PDF) describing your motivation for applying as well as highlighting your relevant skills, experience and personal qualities essential to this role.
Applications will close 9pm on Sunday 24 May. Candidates shortlisted to interview will be invited to take part in a pre-interview competency assessment and video screening. Intreviews will take place via video conference.
The salary range for this role is $110,091 to $155,423. Appointments are based on skills and experience relevant to the role.
Should you apply and be interviewed for this role and you are not the successful candidate, your application can be considered for other current health and safety vacancies at the same or lower level if the essential criteria are the same or closely aligned.
For reporting and transparency, it is important that all applications are submitted through our careers site. If you want to find out more about a career with us, visit careers.corrections.govt.nz or email our team at recruitment@corrections.govt.nz
