Palmerston North City Council – Manawatu CountyMake a Difference: Contribute to the development of Palmerston North City while enjoying a fulfilling career that positively impacts our community.Learning and Development Opportunities: Take your career to new heights with Learning and Development opportunities within Palmerston North City Council.Benefits: We do more than just pay you a salary too. We have awesome benefits to support you including 5 weeks annual leave and hybrid working.About the role | Ko te mahi neiWe're not into churning out boring media releases or puffy spin pieces. Here at Palmy we try to keep things real. We tell it as it is and listen to what we hear.If you're passionate about what you do, a great listener, an even better writer, and can turn technical information into stories our communities want to read and hear, then you're the sort of comms person we want to work with.As an account manager, you'll be a partner within the organisation, providing comms advice and support to your internal customers. You'll be great at building relationships and get to use your creative brain to develop engaging comms across a wide range of channels, catering to our diverse communities.Our council works in a fast-moving environment so you need to be comfortable juggling multiple jobs and responding quickly when necessary. Those pesky emergencies tend to come when you least expect them.You will be working with our Development and Regulatory and Customer and Community Groups, which includes our building and planning, animal management, Libraries, Wildbase, events or activities at our venues (including the CET Arena, Conference and Function Centre, Caccia Birch and isite).The position is 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday; however, due to the nature of the work, flexibility is a must. This means some evening and weekend work will be required from time to time.About usPalmerston North (or as we like to call it, Palmy) is a growing, innovative and exciting city. With small city benefits and big city ambition, Palmy has secured its place on the map as a creative and exciting city, with leading innovation and developments! We're proud to be a city that includes, supports, connects and uses the talents of the whole community in our pursuit to provide a connected and safe community. We're also a future-focused city that cares about enhancing our natural and built environment. Our future looks bright, vibrant, and progressive.What we offer:Competitive remuneration between $88,870 and $104,553, with a 3% KiwiSaver employer contribution (where eligible).5 weeks annual leave and a community service day every year.Additional long service leave after qualifying periods.Parental leave benefits, including paid partner's leave, and top-up payments.Hybrid working principles.Free access to our on-site fitness equipment.Free annual flu vaccinations and subsidised health and eye checks every 2 years.Confidential counselling service.Waiata group.Professional memberships and assistance with study leave and fees.Various wellbeing spaces, including parents' room and wellness/prayer room; we value our employee experience.Applications close: 11.00 pm, Wednesday 27 November 2024.We are an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and welcome applications from all those suitably qualified for this position.
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