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Te Tūranga – The opportunity  

An opportunity to work with New Zealand’s award-winning public media company. RNZ aims to strengthen Aotearoa and the Pacific through informative, challenging and entertaining content.

Te Mahi – About the job

RNZ is New Zealand’s only non-commercial public multimedia organisation and exists solely to serve the public interest by providing unique, impartial services and content to all New Zealanders.

Part of RNZ’s strategy involves continuing to expand our digital content and distribution to connect with a growing and increasingly diverse audience.

In this role you will be responsible for the overall quality of RNZ’s homepage design and production, including working across RNZ to identify the best available news and feature content, as well as training and mentoring others in the digital team in delivering to our digital strategy.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Overseeing the publication of up-to-the-minute news and content.
• Encouraging an audience first approach and varying story-telling to best effect.
• Identifying opportunities to capture audience attention, maximise live audience experiences, and return site visits.
• Assisting in planning coverage of major breaking events.
• Using analytics to guide decision making.
• Leading the team in respect to website and homepage ideas and identify ongoing learning and development.

Ōu Pūkenga - About You

To be successful in this role you will ideally have the following attributes:

• Tertiary Qualification in Journalism and experience as a senior web journalist.
• Proven credibility and high professional standards as a journalist – and expertise in writing specifically for web.
• Wide breadth of knowledge of the NZ media sector, industry associated technology, audience metric and engagement analytics and strategy.
• Ability to work collaboratively, exercise sound judgement and act decisively under time pressure.

Ngā Hua: What we offer

• An opportunity to join RNZ as we embark on a new step of our journey, providing outstanding public media that matters.
• A friendly, welcoming and inclusive team/organisation.
• Development and regular training opportunities for our people.
• Competitive salary.
• Will match an employee’s KiwiSaver contribution up to 4%.
• Additional leave provisions for some roles and the option to buy extra leave.
• Comprehensive parental leave over and above standard legislation.
• Company discounts and benefits
• RNZ supports work/life balance for our people including working from home initiatives where possible.
• Comprehensive wellbeing support including access to a confidential support, guidance and counselling service.

Te Ahurea – Our Culture

At RNZ we are committed to investing in our people and fostering an inclusive and constructive culture. This means creating a place where our people feel like they belong and can do their best work. We do this through our attitudes; Be Bold, Better Every Day and Extend Manaakitanga.

This is a full-time role based in either Auckland, Wellington or Christchurch but we are open to flexibility.

To apply for this role please complete your application on our careers site, including your covering letter and a CV. If applying through Seek you will be able to view and download a copy of the job description for this role after clicking Apply. 

Applications close: Tuesday 11^th February 2025

For any enquiries, please get in touch with

RNZ is committed to the principles and practices of Equal Employment Opportunity and welcomes applicants reflecting New Zealand’s cultural and ethnic diversity.