EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

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Sport Northland is committed to a culture that encourages and supports staff to reach their full potential in an inclusive and collaborative whānau environment.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

VACANCIES

All vacancies are published here

Healthy Active Learning Facilitator

The position is full-time, permanent and is based in the Whangārei and Kaipara areas.

The Healthy Active Learning team are a collaborative and passionate team who support schools throughout Northland to provide quality opportunities for their students to build a lifelong love of being active, while supporting connections between schools with their communities.

The candidate will need a full, clean driver's license and must have the right to live and work in New Zealand.

The successful candidate will have a background in education, sport and/or health, experience working with teachers and/or school management, the ability to influence system change and they must value healthy lifestyles.

Application forms will need to be completed which can be found below, together with CV and a cover letter detailing how your skills best match the person specifications.

If you would like the opportunity to have a kōrero or a catch up with a member of the Healthy Active Learning team to discuss your interest or your application, please contact us on the details below.

Healthy Active Learning is a joint initiative between Sport New Zealand and the Ministries of Health and Education seeking to improve child and youth wellbeing through healthy eating and quality physical activity.  Healthy Active Learning has a focus on enhancing the physical activity experiences of young people in selected primary and intermediate schools across Northland.

The primary purpose of these roles will work with Boards of Trustees, principals, senior leaders and teachers of primary and intermediate schools to provide advice and customised support. They will support school leaders and teachers to better plan and implement the Health and Physical Education and Hauora curriculum, identify and develop opportunities for quality physical activity experiences for tamariki (in school and in the community), and advise on how to establish healthy behaviours and environments through supporting the adoption and implementation of healthy food and water-only policies.

As a Healthy Active Learning Facilitator, your role is to influence the strategic thinking within a school system to support schools to be more active places, with stronger connections to their communities and a solid understanding and implementation of the HPE and Hauora curriculum areas. You will have:

• Experience working with primary and intermediate schools
• Experience in designing and facilitating professional learning and development opportunities
• Experience in facilitating strategic change within a school setting
• Knowledge and understanding of the New Zealand Curriculum and/or Te Marautanga o Aotearoa
• Extensive knowledge of the planning phase of the Health and Physical Education Curriculum with practical delivery experience
• Knowledge and understanding of how the sport and education sectors interact to deliver PE, sport, active recreation and play opportunities for tamariki.

If you require further information, please contact Erin Steel:

Phone: 022 0907 662 or erins@sportnorth.co.nz 

Application for Employment Form - click HERE

Full Position Description - click HERE

Applications close 5pm, Friday 7 March 2025.

Sport Northland Board - Māori Board Position

Sport Northland is seeking applications from uri o Te Tai Tokerau wishing to be considered for one appointed Māori Board position to serve for a three-year term.
 
Sport Northland, one of 14 Regional Sports Trusts nationwide, is a registered charitable trust with a core purpose to ‘enrich Northlander's lives by inspiring and enabling more movement’. The Trust provides services and activities in organised sport, play, active recreation and events, while also owning and managing McKay Stadium, Kensington Fitness and Northland Sports House, as well as owning (and over-seeing the management of) the Whangarei Aquatic Centre, the Bay of Islands Recreation Centre and the Kauri Coast Community Pool.

The Trust employs over 80 people (55 FTEs), turns over in excess of $9.5m and owns assets of more than $29m.

The Sport Northland Board is purely governance focussed, and in 2018 received recognition from Sport NZ through the awarding of Governance Mark for its sector-leading systems and processes in governance. The eight board meetings held annually are less than three hours in duration and held on a Monday night.

Board members at Sport Northland receive an honorarium and receive other benefits as trustees.

Sport Northland acknowledges that He Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Nu Tireni (He Whakaputanga) and Te Tiriti o Waitangi are Aotearoa New Zealand’s founding documents. Sport Northland is committed to upholding the mana of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, which includes both the articles (Kāwanatanga, Tino Rangatiratanga, Ōritetanga and Wairuatanga) and the principles (Partnership, Protection and Participation).

The board is committed to partnership with tangata whenua and the protection of Māori culture and taonga. The board values the distinctiveness that tangata whenua bring to physical activity and Northland’s success on a local, regional and world stage and believes that a strong bi-cultural foundation is critical to our identity and wellbeing. 

The composition of the board includes three elected trustees, two Northland Mayoral Forum appointed trustees, one Te Kahu O Taonui trustee and two Māori trustees appointed by the Board Appointments Panel.

Sport Northland has a partnership with Te Kahu o Taonui (TKoT), the Tai Tokerau Iwi Chair’s Collective, allowing for a TKoT appointed trustee and for a TKoT representative to be added to the Board Appointments Panel, who will in turn be responsible for recruiting the other two Māori appointed trustees. This application process is for one of those two appointed positions.

IDEAL APPLICANT DESCRIPTION

We are seeking a trustee that has whakapapa to Te Tai Tokerau and that has a deep understanding and commitment to Te Ao Māori.

The applicant should also ideally have the majority of the following:

• Some previous governance experience (ie. have been part of a ‘governance-only’ board)
• Significant capability and fluency in Te Reo Māori me ona Tikanga
• Experience in the application of the articles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi in a governance setting
• A passion for on-going governance learning
• Strategic thinking ability/skills
• Financial knowledge/skills
• Play/recreation/sport knowledge, including of the ‘Balance is Better’ philosophy
• A strategic and contributing approach to board-level discussions
• The ability to fit into a ‘governance team’ that focusses more on ‘creating the future’ than ’minding the shop’

Complete the online application HERE

Position Description can be found HERE

 Please complete the online application form and email this together with your covering letter, outlining any of the above skills you might have by Friday 21 February to johnw@sportnorth.co.nz.