Organising Support Officer - Tāmaki Makaurau
NZEI Te Riu Roa
Trade Union Organising Support Officer
Tāmaki Makaurau | Auckland
Permanent, 1.0 FTE
Grade B from $72,688
Purpose-driven work | Matching Kiwisaver up to 6.5%
Health Insurance reimbursement scheme | 26 days annual leave
About the role:
We are looking for an Organising Support Officer (OSO) to join our Tāmaki-based team. OSOs in our organisation support teams doing union work with their excellent problem-solving, analytical, and administrative skills. This is a great opportunity to learn more about how a campaigning and organising trade union works. You will report to the Regional Administration Manager and your role includes:
- Collaborating with colleagues to schedule and determine logistics for campaign events
- Setting up and managing online calendar events to ensure members have the right information at the right time.
- Source and develop information/resources for campaign planning.
- Inputting, maintaining, extracting and analysing information to support campaign work
Skills and experience:
- Strong relational and team-work skills to contribute positively to team-work
- Use your strong skills in working with data to understand and solve problems
- Can work independently but knows when to stop and check-in, as well as knowing when to communicate to a team
- Supports logistics for meetings with ordering catering and set up/ pack down of catering.
- An interest in publicly-funded education, commitment to Te Tiriti, unionism and social justice
Who are we?
NZEI Te Riu Roa is a Te Tiriti based organising and campaigning union of members who work together locally and nationally to achieve the best possible education system for tamariki and the people who work in it. Together we take a strategic approach to achieving members’ aims, including the protection and promotion of the industrial and professional interests of members.
How to apply
- Cover letter - we want to hear why you want to work for NZEI Te Riu Roa in a cover letter that accompanies your CV. We cannot review applications without a cover letter.
- The job description is available here: OSO Tāmaki job description 0226
- Applications must be made here
- We will get in touch with you if you are shortlisted for this role.
- If you have any questions, please contact mahi@nzei.org.nz
Applications close at 5pm Friday 6 March, 2026.
NZEI Te Riu Roa welcomes and supports people of all gender identities, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, religions, and disabilities/ abilities. An expectation of this role is to actively support and promote our diversity and inclusion principles. We want NZEI Te Riu Roa to be a place where you can bring your whole self to work.
He ngakaunui ana a NZEI Te Riu Roa ki te whakahonore me te whakamanahia Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Me mōhio pai ngā kaitono, whakarite he maramatanga rānei o Te Tiriti o Waitangi. He pūtea mō ngā kaitono e matatau ki Te Reo Māori, a, ka tono atu mō tētahi wā mahi hei ako i te Reo Māori.
He whakaaturanga mahi kei tō mātou ipurangi.
Kei kōnei te wāhi pukapuka tono a, me tuhingia he reta hei whakamōhio ki a tātou ko wai koe, nō hea koe, he aha ai e hiahia ana koe ki te mahi mō NZEI Te Riu Roa.
Mehemea he pātai tāu whakapā mai ki mahi@nzei.org.nz
Ka kati ngā tono hei te Rāmere 6 Poutū-te-rangi 2026 a te 5 karaka I te ahiahi.
Ka tautoko a NZEI Te Riu Roa i ngā tangata o ngā mātawaka, ngā tangata o tēhea pakeke, o ngā takatāpui, nga hāhi, nga hauatanga/pukenga. Ko te tumanako o te mahi nei, kia kaha ki te tautoko me whakatuarā a tātou kanorau/iahuhua/matahuhua me ngā whanonga pono. Ko te hiahia a NZEI Te Riu Roa, he wāhi hei whakamana i a koe me tōu mahi.
