Communications Adviser - Senior

Te Tūranga – The opportunity  

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

In this role we are looking for someone at a senior level in their communications career with the ability to lead communication projects (both internal and external) with confidence.

Te Mahi – About the job

Your main responsibilities in this role will be:

• Provide pragmatic communication advice to all our kaimahi and supports effective delivery of business objectives and appropriate and consistent messaging with all audiences.

• Manage communication plans from inception to delivery. Using your expertise to ensure these support organisational objectives as well as delivering clear, impactful communications for our audiences. 

• Maintain great external and internal relationships, skilfully using your influence to improve outcomes with media and stakeholders.

• Play a key role, through advice and support, in communicating our people strategy to our kaimahi and build effective internal communications strategies that build engagement and support our vision, purpose and goals.

• Work collaboratively with our publicity and marketing and people teams to ensure messaging is aligned and opportunities to proactively tell RNZ’s story are taken when communicating with kaimahi or external stakeholders.

Ōu Pūkenga - About You

• Has 5 years + experience in communication roles, at a senior level, ideally within a complex stakeholder environment.

• Evidence of working across all forms of communication and demonstrable success in both internal and external campaigns.

• Experience in developing and executing communication plans, using research to inform and evaluate results.

• Experience in media relations, including preparing spokespeople for interviews, creating messaging document and preparing responses for reactive queries.

• Media or journalism experience beneficial but not essential.

Ngā Hua: What we offer

• A friendly, welcoming and inclusive team/organisation.

• Development and regular training opportunities for our people.

• Will match an employee’s KiwiSaver contribution up to 4%.

• 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 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.

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.  

This is a full-time role based in Auckland.

Applications close: Monday, 6 April 2026

If you'd like to speak to someone about this role, please get in touch with the recruitment team [email protected].

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