Job Offer: 22/454 Translation Service Team Leader:Department of Internal Affairs - Te Tari Taiwhenua

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22/454 Translation Service Team Leader

Type: Fixed Term/Secondment – 24 months
Hours: Full time
Job location: Wellington
Business Group : Partners and Products
Branch: K?wai ki te Iwi /Service Delivery & Operations
income: $75,044 – $101,531

Kai?rahi R?p? Whakawhiti Reo
Translation Team Leader

The Translation Service is a busy office within the Department of Internal Affairs that collaborates across government to develop multilingual communications and materials for New Zealand's Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities.
We are seeking for two energetic and practiced people leaders with backgrounds in translation and interpreting, languages or multilingual cross-cultural communication. You will be leading one of two newly formed teams, one of administrators and translators and the other of translation project managers.
This is a senior position and your practice in working with languages, delivering excellent service and building strong working relationships with clients, providers and government stakeholders will be essential. These positions require effective people leaders who can build and support a strong team working in a busy and demanding field.
To be prosperous in this function, you will be an effective people leader and have practice working in the language industry, or will have worked in an organisation where multilingualism was the norm. You will have excellent communication expertise, a proven track record for problem solving and providing excellent service to customers. You will improve operational processes and systems as well as explore new tools and develop new services as the available translation technologies improve and client requirements evolve. You will have an knowledge of cross-cultural and linguistic issues and an capability to engage with stakeholders as an expert in the field.
practice that will give you a considerable advantage, includes an in-depth knowledge of core issues for M?ori and Pasifika, in particular around te reo M?ori and Pacific languages, or an in-depth knowledge of the concerns and challenges facing our culturally and linguistically diverse communities.
If you thrive on cutting edge projects, a genuine challenge, and knowing that what you do has a genuine impact a diverse range of people, we would very much like to hear from you.
To lgain more about the diverse, important mahi we do at Te Tari Taiwhenua and see why we’re a great place to work,click here.
We work to make New Zealand better for New Zealanders through our four outcome areas:
   » People can easily access the services and information they need
   » Iwi, hap? and communities across New Zealand are safe, resilient and thriving
   » People’s sense of belonging and collective memory builds an inclusive New Zealand
   » New Zealand is a well-functioning democracy across central and local governmen
Applications close:9am, Tuesday 19 July 2022
For more information Contact Us by:Quintin Ridgeway on 021 766 954 or quintin.ridgeway@dia.govt.nz
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Post Date:	2025/10/21 / Viewed 4664 times
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Company:	Department of Internal Affairs - Te Tari Taiwhenua
Contact Email:	quintin.ridgeway@dia.govt.nz

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