Senior Advisor Health and Safety

Senior Advisor Health and Safety

Were looking for an experienced Senior Health and Safety Adviser to join our People and Culture Directorate bringing comprehensive endtoend expertise in health safety and wellbeing.

• Lead Te Pūtea Matua Heath Safety and wellbeing.

• Permanent role flexibility working options

• Wellington based

Te tūranga The role and your impact

Provide Te Pūtea Matua with specialist advice strategic and operational support frameworks monitoring and reporting to ensure compliance with legislative health and safety obligations and to keep our people safe and secure.

In this role you will deliver insights to integrate health safety and wellbeing under a cohesive Te Pūtea Matua framework presenting a consistent approach and narrative to our people.

Your key responsibilities will be:

• Leading the development of a clear and relevant Health and Safety Strategy with defined objectives.

• Providing guidance support and direction to the Leaders to best progress the Te Pūtea Matua Health and Safety agenda.

• Enhancing RBNZs Health and Safety framework and ensuring compliance with the Health and Safety at Work Act.

• Facilitating and monitoring health safety and wellbeing risk management programmes

• Conducting regular site inspections and maintaining health and safety risk and hazard registers.

Ō pūkenga About you

Were looking for someone who is collaborative pragmatic and supportive.

If you have:

• 8 years experience in a similar role.

• A relevant tertiary qualification or equivalent knowledge skills and experience with a commitment to on-going professional development.

• A deep understanding of the Health and Safety at work Act and supporting best practice guidelines.

• Demonstrated experience in advising and supporting senior leaders on health and safety matters.

• Experience operating with a high level of accountability.

• High level of comfort communicating with and influencing stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.

• Ability to build and maintain effective stakeholder relationships and effective working networks across the organisation.

• An autonomous and self-driven working style.

then we want to hear from you!

For more information on the role and the competencies you can view the position description here

Ko wai matou Who we are

Were kaitiaki (guardians) of New Zealands financial ecosystem enabling economic wellbeing and prosperity for all New Zealanders. We do this by providing money and cash helping to keep prices stable and people in work maintaining safe banking and underpinning the financial system that allows New Zealand to spend save insure and do business.

We do all we can to support a sustainable productive and efficient economy built on integrity innovation and inclusion. Were building diversity and inclusion into everything we do. Our differences seed our innovation and help us deliver our best work reflective of the needs of society. We welcome and value knowledge of Te Ao Māori Te Tiriti and Tikanga.

Ngā painga What we can offer you

The Reserve Bank Te Pūtea Matua has so much to offer. From flexible working to an inclusive and positive workplace culture our benefits include additional leave options a wellness package working-from-home equipment subsidy generous parental leave provisions learning and development opportunities and access to numerous social networking and sporting activities.

Find more information about our benefits here: join us if you want to make an impact.

Working at the Reserve Bank Te Pūtea Matua is about more than a job. Here youll have a career a community and an opportunity to make a positive impact on the lives of others.

Bring your talent curiosity and expertise and well help you do the rest. Youll be part of one of the worlds most trusted and respected central banks. Well invest in you. And with you were investing in New Zealand.

Kōrero tāpiri Additional information

We welcome all people and we want everyone to be able to equitably participate in our recruitment process. Get in touch with us if there are any barriers to you applying or if you have access needs and require support or adjustments: email .

Me pēhea te tuku tono Interested

Check out the job description here for this role or email us at for more info.

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Applications for this role close at midnight 9th February 2026

Please include a cover letter outlining why you think youll be a great fit for the role.

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