Events and Campaigns Lead

It's not every day that a job comes along where you really can change the world. 

• Creating positive change in the lives of the world's most vulnerable children.


• Putting your events and marketing expertise to work for a cause that genuinely matters.


• Being part of a collaborative Brand Experience team 

About the Role

As the Events and Campaigns Lead, you will be the operational backbone of the Brand Experience team — planning and delivering events across World Vision NZ's portfolio (Church, Philanthropy, Schools and Youth, Brand, and Gifts in Wills), while playing an active role in the coordinated delivery of integrated brand campaigns.

This is a genuinely dual-function role. On the events side, you own the detail: logistics, suppliers, budgets, risk planning and on-site execution. On the campaigns side, you keep things moving: clear briefs, tracked actions and a team that delivers as one. Across both, it's your attention to detail, collaborative approach and planning discipline that enables the Brand Experience team to deliver confidently and at pace.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end planning and delivery of events from strategy and budgets through to on-site execution and post-event review.


• Manage event operations: suppliers, venues, contracts, logistics, ticketing, catering, travel and stock.


• Lead event risk planning and ensure health, safety and safeguarding requirements are documented and followed.


• Support coordinated delivery of integrated brand campaigns maintaining briefs, timelines and actions so the team delivers as one.


• Lead post-event and post-campaign reviews, capturing learnings for continuous improvement.

This is your opportunity to join a professional, passionate and diverse team at World Vision New Zealand, who will stop at nothing to create meaningful change for children. Every day, as part of World Vision's global reach, you'll help the world's most vulnerable families build safer and brighter futures. Every night, you'll go home knowing you made a difference in someone's life.

About You

You are an experienced events and marketing professional, highly organised, calm under pressure and passionate about making a difference. You bring:

• 5+ years' experience in events, campaigns or marketing, with end-to-end delivery ownership.


• Proven ability to manage multiple events concurrently, from planning through to on-site execution.


• Strong project management skills and ability to meet competing deadlines without losing momentum.


• Experience managing event budgets, suppliers, venues, logistics, ticketing, catering and stock.


• Demonstrated health and safety planning and risk management experience for events.


• Ability to write clear briefs and coordinate creative and communications deliverables.


• Strong stakeholder communication skills, confident clarifying expectations and resolving issues.


• Sound understanding of brand consistency, audience experience and content quality.


• Availability to work evenings and weekends and travel within New Zealand when required.


• Full, clean New Zealand driver licence.
  

Desirable:

• Experience in a non-profit, fundraising or purpose-led organisation.


• Experience supporting integrated campaigns across digital and physical channels.


• Current First Aid certificate.

Why Work With Us?

The team at World Vision are connected in our desire to seek justice and overcome poverty for all children, everywhere. We are mission focused and maintain our Christian identity while embracing the diversity of all people.

We offer unique benefits aligned to who we are as an organisation:

• You'll be a part of creating positive change in the lives of the world's most vulnerable children.


• We offer a comprehensive benefits package — Southern Cross medical and life insurance, a birthday day off, option to buy additional leave, hybrid work, an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and a free Wills package.


• Be part of World Vision's haerenga (journey) of embracing te ao Māori, enabling us to be more effective in achieving our Mission.


• Opportunities for ongoing learning, development and education through World Vision International.

What You Need to Know

World Vision is a Christian organisation empowering everyday New Zealanders to make a difference for children in the world's toughest places through emergency relief, community development and advocacy. You'll be joining NZ's largest overseas humanitarian organisation, 100 staff locally, and part of a global partnership of 35,000 staff and 3.3 million supporters across 100 countries. Together, we've impacted over 200 million vulnerable children by tackling the root causes of poverty.

We work from a Christian kaupapa, seeing our work as a practical expression of the gospel, valuing and supporting the wairua (spiritual wellbeing) of our people and partners. We believe in a world where every child, no matter where they were born, can live life in all its fullness.

Location and Hours

• Based in Penrose, Auckland


• Full-time, Permanent — 37.5 hrs per week


• Hybrid work

Eligibility
You must have current entitlement to work in New Zealand.

We welcome applications from anyone who wants to seek justice and overcome poverty for all children, everywhere. We act in ways that respect the dignity, uniqueness and intrinsic worth of every person. Please let us know if you need any accommodations in our recruitment process.

World Vision New Zealand is committed to safeguarding children. All applicants will undergo appropriate screening, including police vetting.

For more information, please contact [email protected]. Alternatively, click to submit your application. 

Our vision for every child, life in all its fullness; Our prayer for every heart, the will to make it so.

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