Weekend Water Conservation Engagement Assistant

Iawai; New Zealand; On-site; NZD 34,000 - 49,000; Part time

Job summary

Hamilton City Council is seeking two Engagement Assistants to run community events and promote water conservation. The role focuses on weekends, hosting a market stall, and engaging with residents to explain why water is a precious resource and how to save it.

You will transport, set up, man, and pack down equipment, while delivering the Smart Water message in a friendly, professional manner. This casual contract requires reliability and strong communication skills.

Qualifications

• Studying or passionate about water sustainability.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• You must have a Full clean drivers’ licence.
• Enjoys face to face engagement with customers.
• Customer service experience.
• Ability to work autonomously.
• Able to handle low level conflict professionally.
• Can-do attitude.
• Strong personal time management skills.
• Comfortable transporting, setting up and packing away equipment for a market stall.

Responsibilities

• Attend community events in Hamilton and the Waikato region to deliver our Smart Water message to the community. This is mainly weekend work.
• Generating conversations with members of the community about water conservation and water alert levels.
• Able to communicate with a wide variety of people, comfortable and confident starting conversations.
• Transporting, packing, setting up, manning and packing down all equipment needed to run a market stall.
• Adhere to Health & Safety policies and procedures, enabling a safe and healthy work environment for all workers and members of the public.
• Participate in health and safety training related to position activities.
• Actively participate, comply and engage in all health and safety activities, policies, and practices including Civil Defence.

Skills

Excellent verbal communication

Full clean drivers’ license

Customer service experience

Autonomy

Can-do attitude

Time management

Market stall setup

Job description

Hamilton City Council is seeking two Engagement Assistants to run community events and promote water conservation. The role focuses on weekends, hosting a market stall, and engaging with residents to explain why water is a precious resource and how to save it.

You will transport, set up, man, and pack down equipment, while delivering the Smart Water message in a friendly, professional manner. This casual contract requires reliability and strong communication skills.