• Permanent opportunity to join a highly respected sustainability team leading the way in their field!
• Contribute to the positive legacy of one of New Zealand's largest housing and infrastructure investment programmes
• Based in Auckland / Wellington - rate of pay is $120,914 pro rated + 5 weeks annual leave

Kāinga Ora has a COVID-19 Vaccination policy that requires employees to be fully vaccinated, you will be required to provide your vaccination pass during the recruitment process.

Mō mātou - Our Organisation 

At Kāinga Ora, ours is the important responsibility of transforming New Zealand's housing choices, outcomes and the entire housing sector by creating homes and communities that allow New Zealanders to thrive.  

What is exciting about working for Kāinga Ora is getting the chance to make a real and positive impact on New Zealanders' lives. With skills, planning and purposeful action, our people are creating the homes and neighbourhoods that will build the future of Aotearoa.  

We are passionate about transforming New Zealand for the better. That includes being a trusted partner for Māori and iwi, protecting and enabling their rights, interests and aspirations under the guidance of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.  

Ko tā mātou mahi - Our Role

We have a great opportunity for a Senior Sustainability Advisor to join our team. This role will have you working to improve the sustainability of the largest investment into housing and community infrastructure in a generation. Kāinga Ora has made a commitment to proactively manage and improve the climate and broader environmental footprint of this investment programme. This position plays a key role in enabling and supporting the delivery of interventions that will set Kāinga Ora up to successfully:

• Minimise carbon pollution from our urban development/ housing activities
• Deliver climate resilient communities
• Enable transport systems and networks serving our homes support low carbon and healthy transport choices
• Protect and enhance biodiversity surrounding our housing
• Minimise development waste

As Senior Sustainability Advisor you will:

Work across a number of the exciting programmes of work we have in our pipeline, such as:

• Preparing the inaugural Kāinga Ora Emissions Reduction Plan, which will include pragmatic approaches to significantly reducing emissions associated with our corporate activity, housing construction and portfolio and land development and infrastructure construction work.
• Supporting our strategy and construction teams with delivering the biggest improvement in building standards for residential housing ever attempted in New Zealand.
• Delivering New Zealand's first low carbon urban regeneration project in collaboration with Kāinga Ora urban development and consultancy teams

The work you will do:

• Provide high-quality strategic guidance in delivering organisation wide sustainability activities/ interventions
• Support or lead the delivery of key sustainability projects including strategic planning, development of funding/ budget proposals and business cases, procurement and management of consultants
• Establish and leverage internal and external relationships to support delivery of the sustainability outcomes/ objectives
• Support development of implementation and benefits management frameworks to assist in the delivery, monitoring and ongoing success of sustainability interventions
• Contribute to thought leadership and market intelligence for the organisation and within the New Zealand Government

Ngā pūmanawatanga ōu - What you will bring

In adding to your relevant tertiary qualification in a public policy or business administration related discipline, you will also demonstrate:

• Understanding of and passion for solving sustainability, climate change and other environmental related issues and opportunities
• Knowledge of urban design, urban development, construction, asset management and/ or investment management (don't be put off if you don't have all of these)
• Excellent communication and decision making skills, proven ability to influence decision making through clear written, presentation and verbal articulation of ideas
• Proactive, motivated, driven and willing to learn from mistakes
• Excellent interpersonal skills and proven commitment to relationship building
• Strong writing skills including experience in producing high quality documents and reports
• Proven commercial experience in making decisions, balancing trade-offs and negotiating
• Ability to analyse quantitative and qualitative data to drive strategic objectives
• Strong project management skills and proven ability to proactively manage workload to achieve deadlines 

Nōu te rourou - What's in it for you?

We offer competitive salaries, five weeks' annual leave and a benefits package including a range of insurances, flexible working arrangements and career development. These benefits are described in more detail here https://careers.kaingaora.govt.nz/a-great-place-to-work/benefits.  

As a Kāinga Ora - Homes and Communities employee, we want to make sure that you have all the tools and support you need. We want to ensure you are healthy and have work-life balance. We also want to support and grow your personal and career development through on-the-job learning, training courses, secondments and study opportunities.  

ÅŒ Tātou Uara - Our Values  

Our values were developed by us, for us. They unite us as an organisation and guide how we work every day. Our values are: 

• Manaakitanga - People at the Heart 
• Mahi Tahi - Better Together 
• Whanake - Be Bold 

TÅ«hono mai - Join us 

To view the position description and apply for this role, please follow the online process via http://careers.kaingaora.govt.nz. Please note: all applicants, including existing employees, need to follow this process. If you have any questions, please contact the recruitment team via Kaingaora.recruit@kaingaora.govt.nz 

Applications close on 3 April.

We value diversity and are committed to working with each other and our customers in an inclusive and respectful way. We welcome applicants from all walks of life and appreciate the richness of experience that your point of difference brings to the organisation.