Job Details

Location:	Wellington
Category:	Management/Leadership
Position Type:	Permanent Full-time
Job Reference:	NZQA/1807SE
Attachments:	Team Leader, Editors .pdf (PDF, 298KB) Job Specification Customer-Charter.pdf (PDF, 126KB) Nga Matapono - Our Values.pdf (PDF, 143KB)

Team Leader - Editors

We are a small publishing team within the Secondary Examinations business unit at NZQA that produces the NCEA and New Zealand Scholarship examinations. Our numbers are few – but our customer numbers are huge.

We are looking for a Team Leader who will create a vision within our multi-talented team that generates, builds and maintains enthusiasm and commitment to excellence. This person will be a skilled editor with leadership experience who is keen to take on the challenge of ensuring the effective and efficient production of our examinations in a timely, cost effective and accurate manner.

About the role:

• A mix of editing, desktop publishing, and administration
• Interesting and varied subject matter (no boring business reports!)
• Work and play with the latest Mac technology
• Supportive team environment.

About you:

• Adept at juggling multiple priorities while remaining focused under the pressure of immoveable deadlines
• An appreciation of the peer review process and a desire to lead and work as part of a close-knit team, balanced with strong self-motivational skills
• Excellent written communication skills and impeccable grammar
• Demonstrated ability to effectively edit / re-write complex and varied subject matter, considering sense, clarity and fitness for purpose
• A flair for layout and design that aids usability
• Proven ability with desktop publishing and content management software, ideally in a Mac environment.

Editing roles as good as this are rare in Wellington – don't miss out on this opportunity!

For more information about this role please refer to the job description, NZQA's Customer Charter and Organisational Values. If you are applying through Seek, please click ‘apply now'.

If you would like to discuss further, please call Peter Withers on (04) 463 4375.

Applications close at 5.00 pm on Wednesday 7 February 2018.