About the role
Get the best of both worlds: balance your everyday work or study with the excitement and adventure of life in the Navy. Embark on a part-time career like no other by joining the Royal New Zealand Navy Band. It includes some of the country's finest musicians who perform at a wide range of ceremonies and events.
Service Navy
Specialisation Naval Reserve
Location Auckland
Initial daily rate $176
Musicians in the Navy are full- or part-time professional band members. The band's key role is the responsibility to deliver musical support to the NZ Government, NZ diplomatic interests within Aotearoa or abroad and support the RNZN Mission.
This is achieved through the following:
Support to state ceremonial
Defence diplomacy
Command support to Navy personnel, its ships and families
Public relations
Community engagement
Recruiting
Moral component, providing entertainment for Navy and wider NZDF
The RNZN band is unique as the only full-time professional military band in New Zealand; but not every event involves marching.
Reserve Musicians may play with the full concert band, independently, or with one of the band's various ensembles, including:
Big band
Brass quintet
Jazz group
2nd line
Dixie band
Saxophone quartet
Career progression and training
During your first eight months in the Navy, you will be taught core military and mariner skills, in order to be an effective rating in the Navy. Basic Common Training (BCT) begins with nine days at Devonport Naval Base and the Tamaki Leadership Centre in Whangaparaoa.
On completion of BCT, you will embark on your career with the RNZN Band. While undertaking on-the-job training, you will be expected to complete the Able Musician task book, which confirms your proficiency as a musician for your first promotion.
You will be eligible for promotion to Able Musician once you have completed 18 months' effective service, the Sea Qualifying Damage Control course, and the Able Musician task book. Further promotions are based on merit, efficient time at each rank, the completion of the required task book or professional course, and completion of the development (leadership) course at each level.
Salary
Naval Reservists receive an hourly rate of pay, up to a maximum of eight hours per day, commensurate with their rank and experience. As a Reserve Musician, the minimum remuneration you will be paid is a daily rate of $175.90, plus an allowance for holiday pay.
Entry requirements
Be a minimum of 17 years of age upon entry.
Be free of any criminal conviction for the previous two years.
You must have obtained at least 10 credits at NCEA level 1 in both Literacy and Numeracy.
Proficiency with instruments is the main criteria for entry as a Musician. You must be a competent performer/soloist on at least one military band instrument.
A tertiary qualification is desirable but not mandatory.
You must be medically fit for service.
You must meet the minimum entry fitness standards.
Colour perception restrictions may apply.
Entry into the Navy Band is by audition and interview with the Director of Music (DoM) and a selected panel of senior musicians from the RNZN Band. Should this audition and interview be successful, the DoM, in conjunction with the Navy recruiters, will put forward a candidate for selection into the Navy (provided general recruitment requirements are met).
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