The role | Te tūnga
Reporting to the Senior Manager - People Partnering & Advice, you’ll be at the heart of a fast-paced, high-impact People & Culture function. This is a dynamic role where you’ll provide seamless coordination across advisory, recruitment, and payroll, helping ensure everything runs smoothly behind the scenes while making a real difference to people’s experience.
You’ll play an important part in shaping how we work, contributing ideas to enhance our processes and building strong, trusted relationships with advisors and People Leaders across the organisation.
At the core of this role is the opportunity to become our go-to HR systems expert. You’ll take the lead on supporting key HR processes across advisory, payroll, and recruitment workflows, while owning position management and administering essential tools like SharePoint. As a trusted first point of contact for People & Culture enquiries, you’ll connect people with the right information and support, making things easy and efficient.
With plenty of variety and a strong focus on continuous improvement, this is a fantastic opportunity to grow your capability and build a meaningful career in HR, whether as a generalist or specialist.
This role would suit someone who can bring:
What you bring | Nōu te rourou
We value transferable skills and recognise that relevant experience may come from a range of contexts, including outside formal employment.
We are committed to diversity, equity, inclusion and lifting our cultural capability. You don't need to be knowledgeable in all these areas already, but you do need to be on board with learning and have a genuine interest and willingness to grow on this journey with us.
Tell us about yourself in your cover letter, what attracted you to this role, and what you would bring to Stats NZ.
About Us | Ko mātou
Stats NZ | Tatauranga Aotearoa is New Zealand’s National Statistics Office. Every day, our data and insights play a crucial role in decision-making at both local and national levels, directly affecting people’s lives. We aspire to guide, innovate, and shape New Zealand’s data system to deliver quality data with equitable access. We know that people are at the heart of what we do, welcoming different thinking, knowledge and life experiences and the wealth that diversity offers.
What’s in it for you? | Ngā hua ka riro ki a koe
Take a look at our Stats NZ careers site to learn more about our values, The way we work, and check out some of our benefits. These include:
We want working for us to work for you, too.
Salary: $65,874 - $74,857 (pro-rata) + KiwiSaver
How to apply | Me pēhea te tuku tono
If this sounds like you, click on the Apply now button to be redirect to the application page on our careers site. The position description is located on the right-hand side of the page.
We will be screening applications as we receive them to move swiftly to interview. The job may close before the advertised closing date depending on application numbers.
You may be asked to complete a pre-interview screen via phone or video. Please let us know in your application if we need to make any specific accommodations during our process.
Please reach out to recruitment@stats.govt.nz if you have any questions.
You must have a valid work permit or visa to live and work in Aotearoa New Zealand. Background and various pre-employment checks are part of our recruitment process.
Note to Recruitment Agencies: unsolicited CVs will not be accepted.
As New Zealand’s national statistics office, Tatauranga Aotearoa Stats NZ is uniquely positioned to support the decisions that the Government, Māori and Iwi organisations, businesses, NGO’s and New Zealanders make every day. Our structure, culture and systems are designed with collaboration and customers in mind – mobilised and working together to realise our ambition: About Aotearoa, for Aotearoa – data that improves lives today and for generations to come.