Seeking Campaigns and Community Engagement Coordinator
Key Information:
Permanent, full-time role for 40 hours per week
Salary band: $58,240 – $68,240 dependent on experience
Benefits: Budget for professional development and external supervision, wellbeing allowance, working from home allowance and remote working options.
Location:
Wellington – Te Whanganui-a-Tara
Apply by 11:59pm, Wednesday 2nd July, 2025 by filling out this form
Role Summary:
As InsideOUT’s Campaigns and Community Engagement Coordinator you would coordinate and deliver our Out on the Shelves and Schools Pride Week campaigns, redevelop our volunteer programme and support InsideOUT Kōaro to best engage with our communities, especially young people!
We are looking for someone with superb organising and communication skills and a passion for working with and for, rainbow and takatāpui rangatahi. The ideal applicant will be self-motivated with strong time management skills, proven experience planning and coordinating successful projects, and have experience working with young people. Knowledge and passion about schools, libraries, and rainbow literature would be an asset!
It is our commitment to work to uphold Te Tiriti o Waitangi and honour mātauranga Māori and tikanga Māori in all areas of our mahi. We are looking for someone who not only shares these commitments, but can also demonstrate a strong understanding of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and te ao Māori.
More about the role
The community engagement aspect of this role includes facilitating engagements between rainbow and takatāpui rangatahi with external organisations, government agencies and researchers, for instance, supporting focus groups to enable rainbow rangatahi’s voice to be heard. This role also involves representing InsideOUT Kōaro at stalls and events and engaging with rainbow and takatāpui communities to help us best respond to the needs of our communities, and overseeing our resource and merchandise stock and orders.
A key opportunity early in this role is to develop InsideOUT’s volunteer programme to be fit-for purpose to meet the changing needs of our organisation and be responsive to the young people who work with us. After the redevelopment of our volunteer programme, tasks associated with volunteer coordination will be agreed on and form part of this role.
More about our campaigns
Out on the Shelves is an online resource that lists books with rainbow themes and characters, with the aim of supporting rainbow young people to find stories that represent their identities in positive and affirming ways. Out on the Shelves is also an opportunity to create more visibility in our school and community libraries. Our campaign month is a chance for libraries to promote and build their rainbow collections, celebrate these stories and help connect rainbow young people with their stories and with each other.
Schools Pride Week is a celebratory positive week of events that supports rainbow young people to have a sense of belonging in their schools and communities. We hope that by celebrating and normalising rainbow identities through our Schools Pride campaign we can help reduce the experiences of bullying and distress for our rainbow rangatahi in schools.
Both Out on the Shelves and Schools Pride Week take place annually in June.
Skills and experience desired:
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Passionate about InsideOUT’s mahi and rainbow and takatāpui inclusion
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Strong knowledge of rainbow communities and the challenges facing rangatahi, including those at the intersections of different minority experiences
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Able to relate well to young people from diverse backgrounds and meet them where they are
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Strong organisational and communication skills, written and verbal
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Strong time management skills and initiative, ability to manage competing priorities
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Have great interpersonal skills, including the ability to respond effectively to feedback and critique
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Able to work independently and as part of a team
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Have a strong understanding of intersectionality, Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Te Ao Māori
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A commitment to InsideOUT Kōaro’s responsibility to honour Te Tiriti o Waitangi in all areas of our work.
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Experience in group facilitation and community engagement
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Comfortable using technology eg. Google Suite, Zoom, WordPress
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Outstanding knowledge of rainbow communities and the challenges faced by people of diverse sexualities and sex, and gender minorities
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Previous experience in youth work, volunteer coordination, project/programme coordination strongly desired
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Familiarity with Youth Worker Code of Ethics and Mana Taiohi (preferred, but training can be provided if necessary)
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InsideOUT is a growing organisation that works to support youth, whānau, schools, community groups, youth services, government agencies and other relevant organisations to provide safer schools and communities for young people of minority sexualities, sexes and genders. More information about the organisation is available on our website: insideout.org.nz
All InsideOUT Kōaro staff are subject to police vetting as part of our child protection policy.
Apply by filling out this form.
Applications due by 11:59pm, Wednesday 2nd July, 2025.
Contact [email protected] with any questions.
InsideOUT is an inclusive employer and we value diversity. Applications will be considered regardless of ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, sexuality, physical or mental ability.