Senior Health, Safety and Wellbeing Advisor

Who we are

At Stats NZ Tatauranga Aotearoa, our vision is to unleash the power of data to change lives.  As New Zealand’s official data and statistics agency, we are tasked with leading the way for New Zealand’s data future, enabling data-led innovation across society, the economy, and the environment.

Role Purpose

To act as Stats NZ  Health Safety and Wellbeing (HS&W) subject matter expert, and to lead the organisational HS&W portfolio to ensure that Stats NZ Health Safety and Wellbeing programme is in line with our culture, meets ACC and relevant legislative requirements.

About the role

Stats people work in a wide variety of ways, in our offices (Wellington, Auckland, and Christchurch) and remotely in the field – our HS&W advisor works alongside managers to ensure we are taking a proactive approach to keep our people safe and well. Day-to-day this role will;

• Manage regular reporting for HSW
• Build and maintain relationships with both internal and external customers, suppliers and networks,
• Support and respond to incidents and take preventative action to prevent re-occurrence.
• Collaborate with leadership teams across the business
• Provide specialist support in regional and national governance HSW committees.
• Support the wider HR team and managers to get resolutions to HS&W issues and queries.
• Develop and Implement the HS&W strategy for the organisation.

What can you bring to the role?

• Background in supporting managers and leadership teams embed HS&W pro-active practices.
• Flexibility and willingness to the work that is required from basic case tracking through to policy review and strategy implementation.
• Experience of supporting office and field/remote workers.

What’s in it for you? 

You’ll be joining an inclusive environment in which all people, regardless of gender, race, religion or background can come do their best work. Our goal is to provide our staff with a working environment that provides them with the opportunity to:

• have challenging, varied and interesting work
• develop and grow their careers
• balance life and work, and
• work in an agile, dynamic and flexible manner. 

We’re also offering a base salary of $88k - $103k depending on the skills and experience you bring to the role.  

If you are a passionate and talented person relishes the idea of becoming part of NZ’s data ecosystem, then come to join our team! 

If this job sounds like you please apply now. For more information about this role please contact Nick on [email protected].

Applications close:  25th July 2018