Communications Advisor

Closes:

Thursday, 25th February 2010, 12:00pm

Communications Advisor needed

Greater Wellington is looking for a full-time Communications Advisor with great web skills and a passion for online communications for a vacancy in its Wellington-based Communications team.

We’re looking for a person with a mix of specialist and generalist communications skills and experience to support the range of expertise in our Communications team.

There are two main parts to this role. One part is to be responsible for our external and internal websites and act as our Content Management System champion. We’re also interested in being more active in the world of social networking media and keen to add expertise about this to our team. The other part of this role is to provide communications support services to our Flood Protection Department.

Our ideal person will have:
- Experience with website Content Management Systems and HTML publishing
- Awareness of website best practice guidelines
- Mentoring abilities and skills
- An ability to work well with technical people and engineers
- Good project management skills and experience
- Editing and writing skills, particularly for websites but also for print
- Experience with and enthusiasm for “new media”, particularly social networking media
- Excellent organisational skills and a “can do” attitude

If you think you have the right skills and experience and would like to be a part of ‘Making Greater Wellington Greater’ please look at the job description. To apply send a completed application form along with your CV to employment@gw.govt.nz. For further information please contact Rachel Irving, Human Resources Co-ordinator on 04 801 1013

Written applications close at 12pm 25 February 2010.